Maye Musk, mom to the billionaire tech guru and owner of social media platform X, Elon Musk, recently sat down for an interview on Fox News Channel’s “Varney & Co.,” on Tuesday where she offered her observations concerning her son’s relationship with President-elect Donald Trump and his new role in the incoming administration.
“Of course, I’ve seen them together, but very shortly. I live in New York, and they’re in Mar-a-Lago or [a] SpaceX launch, and they just seem to be having fun. A lot of fun,” Musk stated during her appearance on the program. “And it’s nice for both of them to have fun, and [Elon] really respects him a lot and is really happy that there’s a future for America now.”
Not long after beating the socks off Vice President Kamala Harris in both the Electoral College and the popular vote, Trump announced that Elon, along with former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, would be tag teaming like Macho Man and Hulk Hogan to head up the Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, to hack and slash with the glee of Freddy Kreuger at federal waste spending. And just like dream demon, for federal employees, these two are the stuff nightmares are made of.
Musk and Ramaswamy noted in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that they have already been working with the Trump transition team to “hire a lean team of small-government crusaders, including some of the sharpest technical and legal minds in America.” Other general initiatives they hope to move forward include slashing industry regulations, reducing the federal workforce and saving taxpayer money.
“[He’s] very excited because it’s going to be very easy,” Maye Musk remarked during the segment. “I sat in the back, I sit behind [Elon] and I like to sit in on meetings, and Elon and Vivek and others were talking, and they said, first of all, come to work. I mean, isn’t that crazy, that buildings are empty?”
“The buildings are empty, and now you are paying for them, I’m paying for them. And I don’t think that’s fair,” she further explained. “When he bought Twitter, he found out that the building’s empty and nobody has to come in unless they want to meditate or something.”
“What they call mainstream media, but I call them dishonest Democrat media, they will be trying to break up the relationship. They will be hating everything,” Maye stated. “And I told that to Elon, he said he expects that because they were dishonest before the election.”
When it comes to how the public describes her son, Maye Musk prefers to recognize him by his entrepreneurial spirit versus his net worth. “I don’t like the word ‘wealthy’ or ‘billionaire’ or things like that because I think it’s degrading. I think he’s the genius of the world, and people are loving him for that… they love him because of what he does, and they respect him. And I’m very proud of him,” she said.
Show host Stuart Varney then asked Musk if she’s surprised by the things her son often ends up pursuing, to which she replied, “Every time I’m surprised and every time I say, ‘Don’t take on something else,’ and he doesn’t listen to me, and then he makes a big change.”
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