President Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk sat down for a joint interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity and defended the administration’s massive overhaul of the federal government while giving some insights into their friendship.
The interview was the latest display of Trump putting Musk in the spotlight, following an Oval Office appearance by the Tesla CEO last week in which he fielded several questions from reporters while the president sat at the Resolute Desk.
Hannity, who offered both men praise during the interview, at one point assessed: “I feel like I’m interviewing two brothers here.”
Here are four takeaways from the interview.
Musk responded to pushback he has faced since spearheading the Trump administration’s efforts to offer buyouts to federal workers and to find ways to cut waste and fraud at agencies, blaming the bureaucracy for the criticism.
“If the bureaucracy is fighting the will of the people and preventing the president … from implementing what the people want, then what we live in is a bureaucracy and not a democracy,” Musk said.
Hannity rattled off a number of criticisms Democrats had for Musk, including claims he is causing a constitutional crisis and that his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is acting illegally, and noting Democrats are calling him a “vernacular for a male body part.”
“Why? Why are they reacting like this?” Musk said.
“All we’re really trying to do here is restore the will of the people through the president. And, and what we’re finding is that there’s an unelected bureaucracy. Speaking of unelected … there’s a vast federal bureaucracy that is implacably opposed to the president and the Cabinet. And if you look at, say, D.C. voting, it’s 92 percent Kamala,” Musk added, referring to former Vice President Kamala Harris more than 92 percent of the vote in Washington, D.C., last November.
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