{"id":22184,"date":"2025-02-20T01:51:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T01:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=22184"},"modified":"2025-02-20T01:51:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T01:51:26","slug":"donald-trump-admits-he-settled-on-elon-musk-after-searching-for-somebody-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=22184","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump admits he \u2018settled\u2019 on Elon Musk after searching for \u2018somebody smarter\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Donald Trump explained he was ‘searching for somebody smarter’ to collaborate with him during his time in the White House before he ‘settled’ on the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The POTUS made his admission during an interview with Fox News this week, when he was joined by\u00a0Musk<\/a>\u00a0after it was revealed he had chosen the\u00a0SpaceX<\/a>\u00a0CEO to work on the ‘department of government efficiency’ – otherwise known as\u00a0DOGE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump<\/a>\u00a0announced at the time that Musk would work from outside the government to offer ‘advice and guidance’, and ‘pave the way for [his] administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies’.<\/p>\n

Now, Trump has opened up about how Musk came to land the role – and admitted he was looking for other candidates first.<\/p>\n

During their interview\u00a0with<\/a>\u00a0Fox, host Sean Hannity pointed out that Trump ‘might not like’ the fact that Musk is richer than him.<\/p>\n

Trump quipped back by saying that was ‘why [he] became president’, before going on to talk about how he came to hire Musk.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\"Musk\"Musk<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Musk was hired amid the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (Jeff Bottari\/Zuffa LLC)<\/cite><\/div>\n

He said: “He’s great, you know I wanted to find somebody smarter than him. I searched all over, I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t find anyone smarter so we had – for the country. So we settled on this guy.”<\/p>\n

Accepting Trump’s backhanded compliment, Musk responded: “Well thanks for having me. I’m just trying to be useful here.”<\/p>\n

Trump’s admission comes as a court filing from the White House stated this week that Musk ‘has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself’.<\/p>\n

In the declaration, filed by Joshua Fisher, the director of the White House\u2019s Office of Administration, Musk’s title was listed as ‘senior adviser to the president’, Politico\u00a0reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the interview, Trump explained he wanted somebody ‘really smart’ to work with ‘in terms of the country’.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\"Trump\"Trump<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Trump claimed Musk was the ‘smartest’ he could find (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

“He doesn’t talk about it – he’s actually a very good\u00a0businessman<\/a>,” Trump said of Musk, before suggesting that Musk helps ensure Trump’s executive orders get carried out.<\/p>\n

Trump explained: “This is probably true for all presidents, you write an executive order and you think it’s done. You send it out, it doesn’t get done, it doesn’t get implemented […] what he does and he takes it, and with his 100 geniuses […] he gets it done.”<\/p>\n

After Hannity questioned whether Musk was essentially Trump’s ‘tech support’, Trump then responded: “He’s much more than that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Donald Trump explained he was ‘searching for somebody smarter’ to collaborate with him during his time in the White House before he ‘settled’ on the world’s richest man, … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22186,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22184\/revisions\/22186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}