President Trump: A lot of people aren't answering Elon Musk's email because they don't exist

Question about Doge, sir. Do you think that Doge could benefit from more streamlined communications? There was that email telling employees to give five things that they've done last week. Agency heads then told people to ignore it, but Elon Musk- You're talking about the last email that was sent? Where he wanted to know what you did this week. You know why he wanted that, by the way? I thought it was great, because we have people that don't show up to work, and nobody even knows if they work for the government. So, by asking the question, tell us what you did this week, what he's doing is saying, are you actually working? And then, if you don't answer, like, you're sort of semi-fired, or you're fired, because a lot of people are not answering because they don't even exist. They're trying to find- that's how badly various parts of our government were run by, and especially by this last group. So, what they're doing is they're trying to find out who's working for the government. Are we paying other people that aren't working? And you know, where's all that- where's the money going? We have found hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud so far, and we've just started. We're actually going to Fort Knox to see if the gold is there, because maybe somebody stole the gold. Tons of gold. Some of the agencies- So, I think it was actually- there was a lot of genius in sending it. We're trying to find out if people are working, and so we're sending a letter to people, please tell us what you did last week. If people don't respond, it's very possible that there is no such person, or they're not working. Some of the agency heads instructed their employees not to respond, because they were waiting on further guidance, but Elon Musk's tweet said, a failure to respond would be taken as a resignation. So, there's been a disconnect in communications. Yeah. Are you concerned at all about that? Only- no, no, no. That was done in a friendly manner. Only things such as, perhaps, Marco at State Department, where they have very confidential things, or the FBI, where they're working on confidential things. And they don't mean that in any way combatively with Elon, they're just saying there's some people that you don't want to really have them tell you what they're working on last week. But other than that, I think everyone thought it was a pretty ingenious idea. We have to find out where these people are, who are they? And we said, if you don't respond, we assume you're not around. And that holds, that stands. And you're not getting paid anymore, too, so, you know, we're doing a real job. And we just had a poll come out, I guess the Harvard poll, saying that it's massively popular what we're doing.