The tech billionaire stood within the Oval Workplace for greater than half-hour with a visual black eye earlier than a reporter may ask him about it.
WASHINGTON — With Elon Musk’s standing as a particular authorities worker expiring, President Donald Trump held a farewell look for the billionaire on Friday on the White Home.
The tech billionaire stood within the Oval Workplace for greater than half-hour with a visual black eye earlier than a reporter was capable of ask him instantly about it.
Initially, Musk quipped that he wasn’t “anyplace close to France,” a reference to video of President Macron being pushed within the face by his spouse.
Then Musk mentioned he was “simply horsing round” along with his 5-year-old son, named X, “and I mentioned ‘go forward and punch me within the face.’”
It seems, he mentioned, that even a 5-year-old may give you a black eye.
Trump kicked off his Oval Workplace press occasion with Musk with some heat phrases for the billionaire Tesla CEO.
“At the moment it’s a couple of man named Elon,” Trump mentioned.
He praised Musk’s “very nice skills” and mentioned that he’d led “essentially the most sweeping and consequential” efforts to slash the federal workforce and cut back the scale of presidency.
Trump added to Musk, “We’ll bear in mind you” whereas asserting extra cuts sooner or later.
However Trump additionally lamented that the method was taking a very long time: “Sadly, it takes a very long time.”
Musk wore a black baseball cap studying “DOGE” and initially supplied temporary feedback like “yeah” and different phrases of settlement to Trump’s feedback earlier than responding to reporter questions in a while.
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