Trump gives Elon Musk an Oval Office sendoff, crediting him with ‘colossal change’

By Euronews with AP

Published on 31/05/2025 - 3:32 GMT+2

US President Donald Trump bid farewell to Elon Musk successful nan Oval Office connected Friday. 

Musk is leaving his position spearheading nan Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and is rededicating himself to his businesses, including electrical car shaper Tesla, rocket institution SpaceX and societal media level X. 

The US President credited Musk pinch “a colossal alteration successful nan aged ways of doing business successful Washington" and said immoderate of his unit would stay successful nan administration. 

Musk near a searing people connected nan US national bureaucracy, including thousands of labor who were fired aliases pushed out. 

Some authorities functions were eviscerated, including nan US Agency for International Development, which had provided a lifeline for impoverished group astir nan world.  

Boston University researchers estimate that hundreds of thousands of group person already died arsenic a consequence of nan cuts. 

Trump talented Musk what appeared to beryllium a gold-coloured cardinal for his activity for establishing DOGE, which sought to layoff national workers and adjacent authorities agencies to execute costs savings. 

Trump said that he would only bestow this gift to "very typical people" and that it was a "presentation from our country."  

In response, Musk said: "I dream to proceed to supply proposal whenever nan president would like." 

"I dream so," Trump trim successful earlier Musk said he hopes to still execute $1 trillion successful national spending cuts complete time. 

“He’s going to beryllium backmost and forth, I imagine,” Trump said.  

Trump noted that DOGE labor will stay embedded pinch authorities agencies and said nan billionaire will astir apt want to support tabs connected “his baby.”