BREAKING NEWS: Elon Musk Delivers His 'DOGE Update' One Month Since Trump Retook The White House

Man, that is a big crowd. And they are not here for me. How you guys doing? Nice vibe this year, right? After the best month we've ever had. Nice to see you all. Thanks for coming out. Good to see you. I'm not going to kill any more time. Let's bring out Elon Musk. We've got one more surprise in case this wasn't enough. I'm going to let Elon do it. Who else is here? Well, President Malay has a gift for me. Javier Malay from Argentina. You guys know who that is, right? Why don't we bring him out? This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy. Chainsaw. All right. I love it. Mr. President, thank you so much. All right. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Nice to meet you. I love it. We love it. All right. They told me to put this right here. They want it right here. All right. Great. A little stage prop. We love you. You guys too. Thanks guys. Have a seat. That is something. I am become meme Yeah, pretty much I'm just I was living the meme I'm just like this living the dream and there's living the meme and it's pretty much what's happening, you know, you're like I think you're big. I mean doge started out as a meme think about it Now it's real Is that crazy it is it is crazy, but it's cool. Let me ask you this a year ago If someone had told you you'd be at CPAC and working with the president to absolutely shred The government the swamp whatever you want to call it. Would you ever believe that? No, no But it's cool This is awesome. And I know I just want to say, you know, thanks for your support. I mean So I Get good things done but also like, you know, have a good time doing it and You know and have like a sense of humor, you know So like I mean the sort of the left wanted to make comedy illegal, you know, you can't make fun of anything So there's like comedy sucks. It's like nothing's funny. You can't make fun of anything. It's like legalized comedy. Yeah Legalized comedy and we've shifted the entire culture in just the last few months the whole culture The country has shifted dramatically just because of that election. Yeah, exactly You know freedom of speech Having you know having fun again. It seems like we should have we should have a good time, you know I mean, it's a great time everybody in this place is so excited and yeah, I haven't I mean when you talk to conservatives Everybody's happy. Yeah, and everybody feels this great sense of relief because we were going to hell for about four years It really felt bad, especially toward the end. It felt really bad. Yeah, I mean, I thought I Thought we were sort of heading for a point of no return really? Yeah, you know Until that's why it was so essential that President Trump win the election and and that There be a Republican majority in the House and Senate which thanks to you would bet that has been accomplished One of the biggest questions I have for you is and you've been you know Politically you weren't really on one side or the other for a long time You're a businessman a lot of people they stay away from it now You're on a side and you've chosen to say you're sitting here in a MAGA hat. What's it? You know, how did that happen? What was the moment? It's like, you know dark gothic MAGA. That's a good one What was there a specific moment was there a moment that it all changed Yeah, when I realized there's a fool But no, I was I guess Yeah, I mean I'd say like I was politically neutral for for quite a while You know, you know leaning a little Democrat, you know, how do you go from this? Yeah Well, did they go crazy yeah, they did work they did go crazy and it went crazy no, I mean the whole cancel culture and You know, it's trying to stop freedom of speech and Infringe upon just in general infringe upon people's personal freedoms, you know, they just want state control State control what you say, you know where they want to you know, take away your your guns And the reason one take away your guns so like there's nothing you do to oppose them so it's sort of like You know, I just I just like We just need to restore the fundamental elements of what made America great, which is freedom and opportunity. Yeah We're seeing a lot of these freedoms disappearing in the West. It's not just about America We're watching we're all watching Europe and knowing that they're about fifty hundred years ahead of us, right? Because they got an early start and we're watching how they're devolving and you're trying to save it from happening here No, I mean in Europe they put people in prison for memes Yeah, you know, I'm like, that's insane And they're collapsing. I mean there's a society is it's a collapsing society. It feels that way It feels like France was nicer. Yeah, 50 years ago than it is today. Yeah, I don't think you can question Yeah so But yeah, I mean really Thanks, I love you, too I mean I Really just wanted to do useful things like, you know, basically build products, you know provide products and services that are that are good and That that that wasn't really like that interested in being political It just like there was at a certain point no choice. Yeah, so Yeah, can I ask you what it on the same side of that coin? What's it like from going neutral to being vilified? Largely vilified by the media like you're what? No, really. I mean You turn on some of these channels brother. I mean, they don't They're angry Does it bother you at all? There's I mean when they're chanting for my death, I suppose that's a little Not good, I didn't like the song's not even that good and it's like Like you call that a death chant. That's nothing. Please. They've been singing a lot A lot of music lately. It's not good music either. Yeah Yeah, I would say that they're you know, watching where you're doing with those is just that people love it I mean, I've always looked at the government and I've always looked at the government. I've seen this big Machine that and you just know that they waste because they don't care. Nobody could there's more money coming. They don't care Yeah, you're cutting all this out Everybody in this country knows that the government is full of waste fraud and abuse and you're doing the work and the Americans love it Watching their reaction politically to this. I can't believe how bad they are at responding to this I don't know how you're gonna sit there and Scream and complain because they're cutting waste out of the government and try to win another election. How do you try to win on? Well, I'm at this point. I'm like, I'm not sure how much of the left is even real. Yeah, you know How much was propped up by our money? Yeah. Yeah, like literally you see like these these sort of fake rallies But it was like hardly any any people and the media will like frame it and like, you know Get all six people, you know in the frame, but it's like nobody else is there like just it doesn't have popular support but but but there's But but then you then you learn that like there's hundreds of billions of dollars going to these so-called NGOs. Yeah That that and it's your tax dollars that are funding things that are fundamentally anti-american and they're propping up their narrative Yeah, a lot of that government money has been propping up a left that I don't think is as strong as they made it seem In fact a massive amount of of your tax dollars is going to legacy media companies. Yes Directly from the from from the government the government wants to take over media. Yeah, it's terrible. Yeah, that's why we have X Yeah, and that's that's why you spent 44 billion dollars. I mean, there's a lot of money. I Mean more than it was probably worth but it had a there was a message freedom is priceless prices. Yeah Probably one of the most important investments this country's ever seen if you got to protect the First Amendment It's not much more important than that Yeah, I got a lot of criticism and fuel said well that proves he's a huge idiot from a you know like look, you know, he bought it for whatever 44 billion dollars and now it's worth like eight cents and You know this that but but the yeah, it was essentially to you know, yeah by freedom of expression and Yes, that's gone it was all over yeah, it's all over. Yeah tyranny is really quick after that. Yeah. I mean like, you know All of all the sort of federal money going to media companies is what What helps explain why the legacy media? All says the same thing at the same time Yeah, like this is it like it's like weird like you put them up where it's like, you know Like when they you know their mouthpieces for for the state for the state. Yes, and that's that's what we've come to know Yeah, it's scary and I like that Mean with it whether because they're always saying like threat to our democracies that threat, but if you just replaced democracy with bureaucracy Yeah, it makes a lot of sense makes perfect Big threats to the bureaucracy. That's exactly right Let's talk about let's talk about these doge Dividend checks that everybody's talking about this week and I know you tweeted out that you're gonna is everybody won like a five thousand Dollar check in the mail. It sounds kind of good, right? And and the best part about it would be knowing where it came from that that's five grand that you sent them last year totally It's it's it's money It's taken away from from things that are destructive to the country that and from organizations that hate you to you That's awesome. Is it does it seem I mean have you talked? I mean, that's like glorious That's like the spoils of battle, you know Is there traction on that yeah, yeah, so yeah, yeah That took the president he's supportive of that and so it sounds like, you know, that's something we're gonna do Yep, so as we're finding savings that's gonna translate directly to reductions in tax. Yeah I mean, I think they fired 6,000 people at the IRS today Yeah, and I think what Nick said last night that they're talking about shutting down the IRS And I Think it's fair I think people should realize this is I mean the amount of money that we said we send Washington like five or six trillion a Year, that is such an ungodly amount of money I mean, what do they say like a trillion seconds is like 30 years or something like that I mean, that's how much we send them and they seem to never have enough. There's must be a lot you can cut No, absolutely. Well the people ask me what's the most surprising thing that you've encountered when you go to DC? you know where you're in DC and I said well the most surprising thing is the scale of the expenditures and actually How easy it is to with a just just what when you add caring and competence Where it was absent before you can actually save billions of dollars Sometimes in this in an hour. Yeah, like It's it's wild and then they scoff at it and say oh a few billion here there I mean the way they're talking about it. They you can see they don't care It's it's so it's such little money compared to how much they're used to wasting. That's what's really scary Yeah, no, I mean it's exactly but obviously it's it's it just shows that they they really lack empathy for The average taxpayer who's working hard paying taxes and then and then they say oh a million dollars doesn't matter I'm like, I think it rattles a lot people, you know So what are you talking about? I'd like to have it Let me ask you a question I you know, I Know the president fairly well watched him survive two assassination attempts The second had the first one not happened the second one would have gotten him, you know It was very because without those extra guys, they would have never seen that gun poking through the fence at the golf course I said Blowing that this is happened. I mean it just and what by the way, why do we still know nothing about that guy in Butler? What's going on? But he's cash is gonna get to the bottom of it, yeah Confirmed confirmed just a couple hours ago, but I I saw that the security detail that you had come in is is enormous Well, it's not that enormous. Maybe it should be bigger I think you could probably afford it. But I mean, how concerned are you about your safety dealing? I mean, it's you are you are a wanted man Are you are you? Yes, so Look I'm open to ideas for improving security. I have to tell you Like I I don't actually have a death wish I think But but you know, it's not that easy So, yeah I mean Yeah but but I have like I've had even like people like president Bukele from El Salvador who who managed to put in prison like Like a hundred thousand like murderous thugs and he said and he was like he called me. He's like I'm worried about your security I'm like you you're worried about my security Okay You know, I mean, yeah, yeah talk about guts to do that down there. I mean, yeah, totally and then survive like I'm like I was like, how did you put all those thugs in prison without dying? Cuz yeah, it seems like that would have been not easy, you know Well, there's a the president has one of his top attorneys is now investigating. I guess Chuck Schumer for threats against SCOTUS congressman We're saying, you know, basically saying he's gonna bring a war to you like a fight to you I mean the rhetoric You guys are screwing with things that are not supposed to be messed with We're fighting a lot of people that really don't want that to happen. Yeah, we're fighting the matrix big-time here Yeah, but that's got to be done. Yeah and It certainly does What's what's going on with tell us about Fort Knox? Yeah It's Kentucky. It's a military base. It's a ton of gold tons and tons and tons Are there in the ground and like this, I mean it's a very secure thing. I want to see it Yeah, I'd love to see it like this is your gold by the way. It's you it's the public's goal Do you think it's not there? I don't know But I think I just want to see it Yeah, we want to go see it and just make sure like somebody did a spray paint some lead or something, you know Yeah Like is this real gold? You might have to fight the bar, you know didn't then but I think Honestly, you know part of this also is just like let's you know, let's have some fun and and and You know, like like I said, this is all this gold at Fort Knox. It's the public's goal. It's your gold So like I think you have a like a right to see it. I take a tour, you know Yeah, I think we should have a do it do it turn the president last night was like that's out I think he's in favor of it. That would be cool And then we like it should be like a live tour like you can see what's going on Open the door like what's behind it? Well in this, you know, I think I'd watch that Are you kidding? Yeah, I mean, what is it? What is 5,000 tons of look like? Is it is it the size of this gotta be pretty big, you know, it's got to be a lot of Maybe there's some other stuff in there like just walk around like I don't know Maybe I got some other stuff in there. Are you thinking about auditing the Federal Reserve as well, which is obviously Is that yeah sure regular regulatory economy. I Imagine you think the waste has got to be everywhere Yeah, no waste waste is pretty much over a people ask. How can you find wasted in and like in DC? I'm like look it's like being in a room For you and this target with the wall the roofs and the floor are all targets So it's like you're gonna close your eyes and go shoot in any direction You can't miss you know So it's it's it's pretty wild like like you just push on things a little bit and and you save billions of dollars like just a Little bit, you know, it's wild. It's scary. Isn't it? It's that's why I say like it really is underrated where if you add Caring and competence how much things improve? Yeah And and you know, and we said we just find so many totally crazy things at which, you know We're obviously we're sharing with the public. We post everything we learn You know just yeah, you know So you can see it, you know, what do you I mean like it's like isn't it? It's totally wild like we did just we just did like a Check the database on Social Security like says how many a lot Americans alive Americans? Eligible for Social Security are there and according to the database. It's over 400 million and we're like, wait a second Yeah, and then like we found like one person in there's like 360 years old I'm like what they know Yeah, you know America doesn't exist before at that time like so I so yeah We were colonies, you know, maybe it's just me, but I think it's a red flag. I don't know But are there indications that those that there were checks going to those people or any of those people Well, yeah, I guess the question, right? This I mean I get the Social Security administration is dumb, but are they paying these people? Are they that dumb? I don't know a bunch of money is going out for the Social Security Administration and in fact from all entitlements programs seven billion and waste in like seven years. It's ten billion a year well, I think the the fraudulent payments the rough or estimate from General government accountability offices on there's over five hundred billion dollars of for a year if I five hundred billion and how long the time a Per year per year on on Social Security. No, no on all it's on all government On all entitlements on title entitlements. Yeah. Yeah It sort of actually makes sense when you look at the thing from a top level and say like, okay There's seven trillion dollars of spending by the government What percentage do you think is fraudulent? Okay, exactly like you a conservative estimate of the seven trillion would be ten percent Conservative probably a little higher than that, you know, exactly But if the frauds only ten percent of seven trillion you've got seven hundred billion dollars of fraud, you know That's and by the way, it's it's like really easy to take advantage of the federal government. It's very easy. It's very easy Look at kovat. Yes, everybody got rich during kovat. I mean, look at all eyes. I mean, it's unbelievable we It looks like for in terms of kovat payments Yeah, there was something like two hundred billion dollars of kovat payment fraud taken by forces out of the country of the country That's like I think listen, it's gonna be Florida should at least be domestic. Yeah, so You know But they managed to get two hundred billion dollars out of the country. I'm like what didn't we notice that? Let me ask you let's do immigration here for a second, you know, there's This move now that Trump's latest thing is that he cut he's gonna cut funding Any kind of money that ends up in the hands of illegal immigrants? So if you're funding these sanctuary cities and states, that's how I thrive right there pay for these hotels That's all federal money. If you got a hotel in your city in New York, you got all these hotels full of migrants That's not state money. That's the feds are covering that he's gonna cut all that It's really hard to deport 15 million people and it seems like the move now is let's see if we especially at the rate that We're going it seems like the move now is let's make it so that they leave on their own If there's no longer a dole system for them if they can't get their hands on hotel rooms and money They're gonna go back, especially if there's no work. Well, I think it's really important for people to understand that the part the Biden administration sent any possible money that they could they could if there was money they could send to Facilitate and amplify Illegal immigration they sent it. Okay, they took money from FEMA meant for Helping Americans in distress and sent that money to luxury hotels for legal immigrants in New York That is a yeah an outrage They actually did that and and not only that even after the president signed an executive order saying it has to stop The fema's the sort of whatever deep state bureaucrats still still pressed send on 80 million dollars last week to go to the Roosevelt Hotel in New York and other places last week And now and now they're mad that got stopped and they're like trying to sue to have it be restored It's like the gumption. You think you think they're creating a new voter classes? Would you think that was the goal when they open up? Yes for four years create a new voter class and get them citizenship get them in. Yeah cards A lot of these things like you don't actually have to assume some grand conspiracy. You just need to look at basic incentives benefits, so if the incentives Fundamentally if the probability that an illegal is gonna vote Democrat at some point Whether it's a you know cheating, but eventually that can become citizens But if the probability is like 80 90 percent just look at California, which is supermajority Dem and Then the incentive is to maximize the number of illegals in the country that is why the Biden administration was pushing to get in as many illegals as possible and Spent every dollar possible to get as many because every one of them is a customer everyone's a voter. Yeah It's so the whole thing was a giant in voter importation scam pretty obvious very obvious And then they were over then they they actually created the CVP one voter app thing where they were Which is like that where they could they would literally fly people in it's not like it like at the point at which you know People being flown in at your expense sending planes like building a wall They're literally flying them in no others no other country in the world would do something like this. Nobody is as stupid Yeah, and then we found that it was like a hundred million dollar Contract given to some guy in London actually all you know, you know for the CVP you want to have So so then so they're flying Illegals into the swing states. Yeah, and and if you've got like a Margin of victory of maybe 20,000 people and you fly 200,000 illegals into that state It's not gonna be a swing state for long Change the numbers eventually, yeah, maybe in four or eight years. You're exactly just a matter of time. It's a long game It's just a matter of time So it might take like a year for an asylum seeker or something to get on the to get a green card than five years For the citizenship. It's it's it's an investment that is guaranteed to pay off Yeah, just a question of when they all remember who brought them in and who left them here. Exactly. Exactly I want to go back. I want to talk about big deal Like I think a lot of people like don't quite appreciate that. This was an actual real scam at scale To tilt the scales of democracy in America treasons treason One more Biden question, I remember when you know when they would do the electric car stuff They would always try to box you out, even though you have the only electric car anybody wants Yeah, you you said I think this week that you think that Biden left these astronauts up in space because he didn't want to give you an opportunity to save them make NASA look bad make the Private sector look better make you look good You believe it yeah, yeah, absolutely. So the Of course, I can't agree. I mean I Why would he want to let you help them come down when you're supporting the president? The Biden administration was was attacking the next level. I mean the Department of Justice or injustice under the Biden administration Was yeah, I mean there was suing SpaceX suing SpaceX for not hiring asylum seekers And we're like but it's actually illegal for us to hire of sound seekers because we're Rocket technology is covered under ITAR rules, which is that means it's an advanced weapons technology Yeah And so we can only hire permanent residents or green or extra citizens, right? Like so so we're damned if we do it down if we don't we still look like so How can they sue us for not hiring asylum seekers when it's actually illegal for us to do so but nonetheless There was a big Department of Justice or injustice case about this against SpaceX. So obviously it was an antagonistic situation And those astronauts were supposed to be up there for eight days. And now they're up for eight months. Does that make any sense? And and we obviously could have brought them back sooner But they didn't want it to didn't want anyone who supported President Trump to look good. Basically. Yeah, that's the that's the that's the issue the a Lot of them are saying right now that the reason that you want to get into Social security that you want to get into all of these Different into Treasury and things like that is that you're looking for personal information and you're trying to make more money Yeah, I I've never met anybody as rich as you that cared less about money in my life Every time I hear a story about you You're sleeping on a couch of some other guy in a city that you could buy the entire thing Yeah, I don't think you care about money. Do you know actually? I mean listen, like if I if I steal some social security, I can finally buy nice things. Yeah And and it's on that same question They're also talking about you guys are gonna end Social Security. You're gonna end Medicare. You're gonna end these things I don't imagine that conversation has been had with the president and that's that's the plan No In fact the actions that we're taking with the support of the president and the support of the agencies is what will save Medicare what will save Social Security? And and it's it it's because if the country goes insolvent If if all of if all the money is just spent on paying interest on debt, there's no money left for anything Yeah, so that that's the reason I'm doing this is because I'm looking at the big picture here and it's like man I did it's getting out of control The the interest payments at the interest on the national debt Now exceeds the entire Defense Department budget trillion a year Yeah interest just to carry the money that we owe is a trillion a year. Yeah, it's unbelieving rising rapidly It's so so like it's I mean a country's not over from a person country overspends country goes bankrupt Same with same as a person who overspends goes bankrupt. So It's it's not like optional to solve these things. It's essential So we're gonna go bankrupt. Yes Couple minutes left here Russia There's a huge push from the oh, yeah Yeah, people like so that's like to end this war like yeah, you know, I I'm a I'm a bought asset of Putin Yeah, I'm like he can't afford me. Yeah So You're trying to you know, you're trying to end a war it's all Any of war always means you have to compromise you have to negotiate with an enemy or an adversary that's just what it is and right now they are lambasting the president for Trying a different method to war that they haven't been able to end for three and a half years or three years Yeah, they you know They're saying Trump's blaming Zelensky for the invasion How do you how do you process all of the negativity toward him for trying to end this war? Well First of all, I think we should have empathy for the people dying at the front lines That's the most important thing and people have been dying, you know it's like How many more years is this supposed to go on yeah and imagine if that was your son your father You know, what are they dying for? What exactly are they dying for that line that has the line of engagement has barely moved for two years. Yeah There's a whole bunch of people dead in trenches for what And I'll tell you what for what it's like for the biggest graph machine that I've ever seen in my life that's for what It's it's unreal like the amount of money that is being taken in in graft and bribery is disgusting and and so what's actually happening is that those those you know people those Poor guys are getting sent into a meat grinder for money. That's what's actually going on Yeah, and he's a stop and that's I mean that's It seems I mean Trump is so pragmatic on this. He just he's just looking at it and he's saying it's Ukraine It's not our country. It's not a NATO ally. I just want to see people not dying I want to see on both sides this I mean think about how many young so many young men have died in Ukraine that the Army is starting to age out. The military is aging out You got 40 and 50 year old guys fighting in a war because there's nobody left. That's not killed or maimed in their 20s That's the reality of it think about how many people that is if you're a humanitarian at all You just got to end the war like yeah, no matter what just get it over with Yes, people they need to stop dying and And the grift machines got to stop, you know, so And I think people it that don't a lot of people out there don't realize like the president has a lot of empathy He really cares, you know, he's a good he's a good man I got one more for you I've been fascinated by you for a very long time. Thanks I've just I just I've never seen anybody that can you know do so many things at the same time I mean, you've got the Rockets you got the cars. I've always wanted to ask you What is it like inside your mind like this? Is it just a thousand miles an hour? I mean, are you yeah, is it just not I mean does does it ever stop do you sleep? How much do you sleep? What's? Paint us a picture of inside of the mind of a genius like Can you answer that question It's not an easy question. Yeah, I mean my mind is a storm. Yeah, so It's a storm but But I mean, let me maybe tell you something like you're gonna ask the question, but but I think it's worth and unless maybe just just elaborating on something which is you know, I grew up in in South Africa and But my morality was informed by America. I read comic books, you know played Dungeons and Dragons and And I Watched American TV shows and It like it seemed like America cared about being the good guys, you know about doing the right thing and And and that's actually pretty unusual by the way, yeah, there's like it's like in the world it's very unusual Yeah, it's not like actually those countries don't do that. No, they don't know And so I was like, yeah, you know, you want to be this good that you want to be on the side of good you want to care about what's right and and Yeah, so that's that's Yeah, but what I believe in you know I gave you I gave you a tough one at the end Yeah, so yeah, that's great that's great Elon Musk. All right. Thank you. Thank you so much