Kinda says it all ...

U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as X Æ A-12, Elon Musk's son, stands beside him in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 11, 2025.
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Kinda says it all ...

Why Musk is the defacto president ...

Used to be 2 trillion ...

Elon Musk faces new challenges to DOGE’s effort to reshape Washington, but there is one thing he isn’t doing: lowering expectations.

Over the course of a raucous 30-minute back and forth in the Oval Office on Tuesday, both Musk and President Donald Trump seemed to be competing to make the biggest claims about DOGE — with both offering the sense that they felt their time for wholesale action could be limited.

Trump assailed recent legal challenges to his spending plans in part because they "slowed down the momentum" of Musk's moves. The men predicted that Musk's effort would find $1 trillion in cuts and help lead to "no inflation" next year. At another point Musk said he was trying to be "maximally transparent" even as he and Trump repeatedly dodged questions about their undertaking.

It was Musk's first time answering questions from the media since launching his overhaul of the federal bureaucracy, with a session held alongside the signing of a new executive order around implementing his team's efforts to cut the federal workforce.

All in all, it was a striking Oval Office moment complete with Musk's son atop his shoulders "sticking his fingers in my ears" as the world's richest man tried to downplay market fears that his actions at the US Treasury could upend bond markets.

Any questions and remember, it takes, according to Musk, only 6 unqualified people to deal with the complexities of the government's budget and ... let's see what happens when Musk and company deal with the MIC, the real power of the country as it's all about the money, something Kennedy questioned without question and we all know how that turned out, right?

A pie chart showing global military expenditures by country for 2019, in US$ billions, according to SIPRI.
Note that this is not shown as a percentage of GDP.