Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday, President Trump praised Elon Musk's DOGE work.
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00:00It has an impact on the team.
00:01Thank you, sir.
00:03Elon Musk said he'll be stepping back from his work with Doge a little bit
00:06and only get dedicated maybe a day or two or a week to it.
00:09How long would you like to see that continue,
00:11and how involved would you like to see it continue?
00:13Well, first of all, I can't speak more highly about any individual.
00:17He's an incredible guy. He's a brilliant guy.
00:19He's a wonderful person.
00:21I've seen him with his family.
00:23I've seen him with a lot of his children.
00:25He's got a lot of children.
00:26He treats them good.
00:28He loves his children.
00:31But he's a brilliant guy, and he was a tremendous help,
00:35both in the campaign and in what he's done with Doge.
00:40And, you know, we're talking about almost $200 billion and rising fast
00:46because many of the things that we were looking at
00:48are now being found out to be fact.
00:52It's terrible.
00:53I mean, the fraud, the waste, the abuse,
00:56everything that's happened is just terrible.
00:59So I also know that he was treated very unfairly by the,
01:04I guess you'd call it the public, by some of the public, not by all of it.
01:08But I say he makes an incredible car, makes everything he does is good.
01:11But they took it out on Tesla.
01:15And I just thought it was so unfair because he's trying to help the country.
01:19But he has helped the country.
01:21I also want him to make sure that he's going to be in great shape.
01:24And I know he is.
01:25I mean, he's going to be, he's going to do great.
01:27He loves the country.
01:28He didn't need to do this.
01:29He did it.
01:30And I told him, I said, you know, whenever you're ready,
01:34I'd like to keep him for a long time.
01:37But whenever you're ready, he's an exceptional guy.
01:39When you see those rockets go up and come back and land in the same gantry,
01:44nobody else can do that but this man.
01:47So he's just an incredible person.
01:49And he's a friend of mine.
01:50And he's a nice person, too.
01:51He's a very nice person.
01:52He really helped the country, saved us a lot of money.
01:55And I heard him say that he'll start easing, which is always,
01:59he was always at this time going to ease out.
02:02And when he goes back to Tesla, that'll be taken care of.
02:06It was just, it's artificial.
02:07These were sick people that thought they were doing something.
02:11He's really, he's a great patriot.
02:14And he should, really, it should be, it shouldn't be the way.
02:18That should never have happened to him.
02:20And I will tell you right now, he makes a great product.
02:23He makes a great product.
02:25It's a great car.
02:26It's great everything.
02:27Starlink is great.
02:28What he does is good.
02:29He's doing medical things that are amazing.
02:33And we have to, at some point, let him go and do that.
02:37And we expect him to be doing it about this time.
02:40But I'll talk to Elon about it.
02:43Thank you for the question.
02:44Is that right?
02:44I have a second question.