Even the brightest of flames are sure to sputter out ultimately, and lo, it might seem that the intense, transient bromance between Elon Musk and Donald Trump will quickly be however a wisp of smoke, shortly dissipated to nothing within the White House’s climate-controlled corridors.
In a bunch interview with a handful of reporters on the White House on Wednesday night, Musk spent a while reminiscing on the soon-to-be good ole’ DOGE days, whining about his workplace, garnished with a wholesome misunderstanding of Buddhism, only for selection.
Musk defined that the administration is “getting more of a rhythm,” 100 days post-inauguration. Sure, if by “rhythm” he means “plummeting poll numbers and stock market,” then, sure, there has certainly been extra of that. Musk mentioned that he’d step again from DOGEing and enjoying video video games Diablo and Path of Exile in his workplace on a monitor that he described as the most important within the White House. By distinction, he sniffed that his workplace is “comically tiny” with “a view of nothing.”
“Which is fine, makes it harder to shoot me,” Musk added. “Not a good line of sight.”
It would seem that his days of sleeping in that office are over, nevertheless, resulting from an improve in visitor lodgings: Trump often invitations him to remain over on the White House, the place he sleeps within the Lincoln Bedroom and enjoys cute little ice cream rendezvous with Trump.
“We’ll be on Air Force One, and Marine One, and he’ll be like, ‘Do you want to stay over?’” Musk mentioned of “good friend” Trump. “And I’m like, ‘sure.’ He’ll actually call, like late at night, and say, like, ‘Oh, by the way, make sure you get some ice cream from the kitchen.’”
“Don’t tell RFK,” he added, invoking well being and human providers secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Musk, for the report, tends to take pleasure in caramel-flavored Haagen Dazs. Trump has traditionally voiced a preference for cherry-vanilla ice cream, with very particular directions for the way it needs to be served: Two scoops for Donald, one for everybody else. (It’s value noting, too, that Trump Tower in New York has its own ice cream shop. A “big league” scoop prices $8, and it’s the proud bearer of a 2.6-star Yelp rating.)
As he shifts his focus from DOGE to “return to primarily running my companies, which do need me,” (learn: Tesla’s income declined an eye-popping 71% in Q1, and the autos have become a scarlet letter among anti-Trumpers), Musk graded his time enjoying authorities dress-up as “60% fun, 70% fun,” although it “depends on the week.”
“Being attacked relentlessly is not super fun,” he mentioned. “Seeing cars burning is not fun.”
Weird information for Elon: Those issues aren’t unique to….no matter it was he did at DOGE. Remember, the mysterious Amy Gleason was publicly named because the group’s performing administrator in February, although Musk was out entrance carrying goofy hats and attempting to fireplace individuals who didn’t work for him. He’s preserving his workplace, tiny although it might be, he mentioned, and apparently his sparse enterprise playing cards as properly. Even his stationery doesn’t know what to name him, by the best way.
“They don’t put anything on my card,” Musk mentioned. “Literally, there’s nothing on my card. It just says my name.” Useful!
Just as he has perpetually declined to say who’s truly working the present at DOGE (and, truthfully, what the hell they’re all doing there), Musk saved mum on the longer term.
“It’s a way of life, like Buddhism,” he mentioned of DOGE, which, as a bizarre imprecise authorities committee has just about nothing in widespread with the centuries-old perception system. “You wouldn’t ask who would lead Buddhism. Is Buddha needed for Buddhism?”
