'Elon's Really Not Leaving...': Trump Previews Musk's Future DOGE Efforts

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump discussed Elon Musk's next steps.

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00:00Many of the Doge people, Elon, are staying behind, too, so they're not leaving.

00:05And Elon's really not leaving. He's going to be back and forth, I think.

00:09I have a feeling. It's his baby, and I think he's going to be doing a lot of things.

00:13But Elon's service to America has been, without comparison in modern history,

00:18he's already running one of the most innovative car companies in the world.

00:22You look at his factories and compare them with some of the old factories we have,

00:26and it's a big difference.

00:27It's the most successful space company in, I guess, in history, you would have to say,

00:32the largest free speech platform on the Internet, etc.

00:36Yet, Elon, willingly, with all of the success, he willingly accepted the outrageous abuse and slander and lies and attacks

00:44because he does love our country. I know that very much. He loves our country.

00:50He comes from another country, a country that's going through trials and tribulations, I would say.

00:56But he's all about the USA, and Americans owe him a great debt of gratitude.

01:03So I just want to thank Elon for his time as a special government employee.

01:08Can you imagine? They call him an employee.

01:10But it's a special government employee.

01:13And for coming and helping us, and he really has changed the mindset of a lot of people.

01:18A lot of people thought, you know, maybe we'll cut 1 percent or 2 percent or 3 percent.

01:23Then they said, well, we can cut a lot more than that, and we're going to do it very surgically.

01:27We're going to continue on the march.

01:30We're making America great again.

01:32When I was in Saudi Arabia, we were in, as you know, three really great countries, predominantly the three.

01:42Qatar was great.

01:44UAE was great.

01:45Saudi Arabia, incredible.

01:47What, like, such an incredible experience to be in those three countries.

01:51But the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, and I must tell you, the leaders, the great leaders of the other two that we just mentioned,

02:00they all said the same thing, that the United States is the hottest country right now anywhere in the world.

02:06And six months ago, we thought it was dead.

02:08It was like a dead country.

02:09And it would have been a dead country if we didn't have the right result on November 5th.

02:13There would have been a horrible, horrible situation was going on with the borders, with transgender for everyone,

02:21men playing in women's sports, and so much more.

02:25But they were saying, the hottest country anywhere in the world.

02:28And then I played that little clip, because that was one person who was respected, or two people,

02:34because Joe was in that one, too.

02:35Joe was a good man.

02:36But that was one group of people saying something about the success of what we've done over the last four months.

02:44They cannot believe it.

02:45In the one case, they said they've never seen anything like it as long as they've been doing what they've been doing.

02:49They've been doing it for a long time.