Speaker 1: President Trump bid farewell to Elon Musk in an Oval
Speaker 1: Office event made for the cameras. Trump thanked Musk for
Speaker 1: his work with DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, a
Speaker 1: role created to reduce the size of the federal workforce.
Speaker 1: The TESLA CEO concludes his government service after four months
Speaker 1: of leading DOGE. Musk worked for Trump as a powerful
Speaker 1: and obviously a special government employee, after spending approximately two
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty eight million dollars of his own money
Speaker 1: to help get the president elected. Ladies and gentlemen, I
Speaker 1: don't know about the rest of y'all, but I just
Speaker 1: see all of this as nothing more than pomping circumstance.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're Musk, Okay, you spent Listen, you
Speaker 1: spent anywhere from one hundred and nineteen according to some reports,
Speaker 1: to two hundred and eighty eight million and helping getting
Speaker 1: President Trump elected. You have to remember that this is
Speaker 1: the same muscle one's vote for Hillary Clinton who wants
Speaker 1: voted for Joe Biden. So him changing course shows how
Speaker 1: alarming of a direction he saw the country going in
Speaker 1: when led by the left. Having said that him departing
Speaker 1: from Trump to be honest with you as much ado
Speaker 1: about nothing, because where's he going. He literally said, he's
Speaker 1: a friend of Trump. He's gonna still be an advisor
Speaker 1: to Trump. He'll still be making some visits to the
Speaker 1: White House. Well, ain't that essentially what he was doing.
Speaker 1: All of his pieces are in place, The personnel that
Speaker 1: he wanted overseeing DOGE are in place. Now they want
Speaker 1: to sit up there and they want to brag about
Speaker 1: some of the cuts that have taken place, some of
Speaker 1: the money that they've saved American citizens. I'm just looking
Speaker 1: at some of these stories here, trying to decide which
Speaker 1: one I want to get into. Like the American taxpayer
Speaker 1: has been saved about one thousand and eighty six dollars,
Speaker 1: says according to DOGE dot gov, Musk and his crew
Speaker 1: have saved one hundred and seventy five billion dollars so
Speaker 1: far and estimated one thousand and eighty six dollars per taxpayer. Well,
Speaker 1: it has a taxpayer seeing that extra dollars in their pocket.
Speaker 1: Musk set up there and said, hey, in the end,
Speaker 1: I think we'll save the government about a trillion dollars.
Speaker 1: This is a billion and a trillion. Okay, there's one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five billion. He thinks he's gonna save
Speaker 1: them about a trillion dollars where you got about eight
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five billion to go. Really, how many
Speaker 1: jobs gonna be lost? We're talking about eradicating waste, fraud
Speaker 1: and excess, right, how many jobs is gonna be crossed?
Speaker 1: How how many federal jobs are going to be lost?
Speaker 1: How many people are gonna end up unemployed? I think
Speaker 1: these are legitimate questions. I also think that as much
Speaker 1: ado about nothing, because listen, Musk wasn't talking about going
Speaker 1: away until Tesla stock dropped. Remember, in the first quarter
Speaker 1: last year, there was a seventy one percent this year, Rather,
Speaker 1: there was a seventy one percent drop in first quarter
Speaker 1: earnings for Tesla. When he announced that he was gonna
Speaker 1: step back from his duties with Doge and ultimately go
Speaker 1: back to work overseeing his company for Tesla, which is
Speaker 1: Tesla one of them anyway, stock jump twenty percent. So
Speaker 1: all of these things are the common things that I'm
Speaker 1: looking at and I'm saying, Okay, we get it. Your
Speaker 1: company is losing money. Listen, you really don't have to
Speaker 1: be here in the White House talking to me in
Speaker 1: order to oversee this to some degree, and you're no
Speaker 1: longer going to be in an official capacity, but you
Speaker 1: still have the president's here, which means that whatever you
Speaker 1: think should be done, the President will probably side with you.
Speaker 1: And you don't have to answer to Congress, to the Senate,
Speaker 1: to elected officials anywhere because you no longer have this job.
Speaker 1: Seems to be a gets the best of both worlds,
Speaker 1: goes back to Tesla, raises his stock. He's already worth
Speaker 1: over four hundred and twenty four billion dollars, richest man
Speaker 1: in the world. Tesla stock goes up once you return. Okay, specifically,
Speaker 1: this stock search twenty percent, like I said, after months pledged.
Speaker 1: According to the Business Insider, the news came in the
Speaker 1: wake of a challenging first quarter for Tesla, which saw
Speaker 1: significant dropping profits. We get this, Tesla was losing money.
Speaker 1: You're going back to work, save your company. Make sure
Speaker 1: you got competition in China, you got competition in Europe
Speaker 1: because they're electric vehicles. They're coming with their own You
Speaker 1: recognize that you got to lock in and zero in,
Speaker 1: so you don't going to be on the job with
Speaker 1: Doge anymore. But your influence isn't dissipating any way imaginable.
Speaker 1: So to me, ladies and gentlemen, it was much ado
Speaker 1: about nothing. It was a press conference to let the
Speaker 1: world know he's back looking over Tesla instead of being
Speaker 1: a special employee for the government. So in other words,
Speaker 1: our stock can rise again. I don't need to be
Speaker 1: losing money. Influence is cemented. It's all it is. It's
Speaker 1: all it is. M h m hm