Trump, Musk ‘acutely aware’ of media trying to drive them apart

All right, last night here on Fox, you saw President Trump and Elon Musk opening up about their relationship and their shared goal to cut wasteful spending during an interview with Sean Hannity. Elon called me. He said, you know, they're trying to drive us apart. I said, absolutely. I wanted somebody really smart to work with me in terms of the country, a very important aspect. The president is the elected representative of the people, so he's representing the will of the people. And 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. This all comes as Democrats and some in the media are fixating over who exactly is running Doge rather than the jaw-dropping findings about government waste, which is widespread. Here to react is Fox News contributor Guy Benson. Guy, good morning to you. Hey. You know, I think it drives a lot of people crazy to think that the world's most powerful man and the world's richest man are actually working together in the public. It's something like we've never seen before, and it seems to be working out for both of them. Yeah. One of the things that was striking to me last night was this response by the two of them sitting there together, just the visuals of it. We've seen this argument from the critics, well, who elected Elon Musk? And I think that's a weak point for a number of different reasons. But here they are sitting side by side, and the signal very clearly is here's the president of the United States, duly elected just a few months ago by the American people. He is putting his imprimatur on what Elon Musk and his team are doing, especially in the executive branch and the agencies, the boss of which, all the way at the top, is the elected president of the United States. So that was one thing that stuck out to me. And then you heard the clip there as well with Trump and Elon both acknowledging it's very obvious that the media, the Democrats, others are trying to drive a wedge between them. We've seen this in a lot of the commentary, like, oh, at some point they're going to blow up because there are two giant egos. They're very clearly, acutely aware of that dynamic and talking about it publicly, which I think is an interesting admission and probably a healthy thing. Well, in fact, we've got a little snippet to show you from another channel. Here is White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who's asked, hey, who exactly is running that thing? Watch. So who is in charge of DOJ? The president of the United States. He's the administrator of DOJ? No, the DOJ is the what was formerly U.S. Digital Services. It's an agency of the federal government. That reports into the office of the executive office of the president, which reports to the president of the United States. And he's accurate. I mean, they've changed that department. Now it's DOJ, but it is the president at the top of the flow chart. I know it's hard to grok for some people, and you might have some issues with some of the things DOJ is doing and how they're doing it. That's fine. But this puzzlement over, is any of this legal? Who's really in charge? The president's elected. He puts a team in place, he delegates responsibility, and there's a chain of command. Donald Trump is not sitting at his desk all day looking at line items. He has given that responsibility to several other people who are overseen by Elon Musk. This is not a mystery. In many ways, it's not unusual in our government. But I guess it has to be spelled out for some of the people who are at least playing dumb. Well, and to your point, Guy, you've got the president. He's the big picture guy. And then right next to him is the guy explaining what they're doing. And he knows, to a granular level, exactly what DOJ is doing. And ultimately, to your point as well about, you know, some people might not be happy about what's happening, but nonetheless, they are being quite transparent in explaining what they're doing and why they're doing it. Right. So many bureaucrats, speaking of unelected people, forever, right, for decades and decades, they move our money around in the shadows, right? And sometimes it gets a little bit exposed. Often no one knows a thing. Here you have two people committed to reducing a lot of the waste and the fraud and the abuse. And there's plenty of that to go around that should be cut down. And they're giving nationally televised interviews about it together. Right. Again, I'm not defending every last thing, but overall, the mission here, the picture, the way they're going about it, the fact that they are being transparent with people and like putting full documents out on X or Twitter, which, of course, Elon owns. That seems a lot better to this previous alternative in the status quo that a strange number of people seem very, very committed to and invested in, whereas most American taxpayers, I think, are in a very different position. Right. The average American likes the fact that that Doge duo is putting the so-called permanent government on a skinny diet. So let's see what happens. Guy, thank you very much for joining us today from Washington. You bet.