Musk says he doesn't want to 'take responsibility' for all Trump actions

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

06/01/25 4:09 PM ET


Tech billionaire Elon Musk, whose time as a special government employee came to an end on Friday, said in a Sunday interview that he doesn’t want to “take responsibility” for all actions of the Trump administration. In an interview on CBS News’s “Sunday Morning,”

Musk said he disagrees with some moves President Trump has made, though he hesitated to discuss them in more detail, saying that doing so might create “a bone of contention.” “It’s not like I agree with everything the administration does,” Musk said in the interview. “I mean, I agree with much of what the administration does, but we have differences of opinion. You know, there are things that I don’t entirely agree with.”

“But it’s difficult for me to bring that up in an interview because then it creates a bone of contention,” Musk continued. “So then, I’m a little stuck in a bind, where I’m like, ‘Well, I don’t want to, you know, speak up against the administration, but I also don’t want to take responsibility for everything this administration’s doing,’” he added.

Musk made sweeping changes at multiple federal agencies through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) over the last few months. He has said he will continue to advise the president when asked, even though his official role as senior adviser to the president has come to an end.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5327997-elon-musk-trump-administration-bind/

[Blues Heron]

1. What a spineless jellyfish this freak is.

[calimary]

2. Um... dare I say "TOO LATE"?

Nobody held a gun to your head and made you do it, Elon. You strolled right into it, all by your itty bitty self.

[Deminpenn]

3. Too bad

You broke it, you bought it.

[speak easy]

4. " I don't want to speak up ... but I also don't want to take responsibility "

Silence is consent you disgusting POS.

[Walleye]

5. Proof that money can't buy guts, or brains

All these macho guys are really such lily-livered cowards

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Well, if all were going "well," you'd bet that Elon would be taking full credit for it.

And in the legal doctrine of Principal and Agent, while the Principal can be held liable for the acts of his/her/its Agent, the Agent is still liable for the damage done by his/her/its acts. All the DOGE BS, etc. is attributable to both TSF and Musk no matter how the jobs were delegated beneath them.

[ecstatic]

7. 🙄 fuck off, traitor!

What nerve! You don't get to quibble about your exact contributions to a fascist coup.

[NNadir]

8. He's not all that bright but seems to have finally realized...

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...that everything Trump touches dies, including the country to which Musk immigrated and did so much to destroy.

[Paladin]

9. Tough shit, Musk. Your fate is sealed.

If you want any sympathy or pointers on how to deal with things, check in with Giuliani, the My Pillow guy, or any of the many others that trump has dicked in the dirt over the years, in return for the valuable favors they did for him. Here's hoping the rest of trump's henchmen stay as clueless as you about their futures, because that's what they deserve...

[70sEraVet]

10. So, the 'genious' has discovered .....

that when you ACT like a Nazi, people are going to assume that you ARE one.

[Botany]

11. The 300,000 dead from the withdrawal of USAID support is all on Elon.

But to Musk that is a bonus because most of the dead were black children in Africa.

The mathematician and professor of infectious diseases at Boston University had created a model to predict the human cost of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (Doge) USAid funding cuts.

What Nichols had not appreciated was what was killing people, and just how quickly it appeared to be killing them. A death was estimated to be happening somewhere in the world every three minutes. “It was just shocking,” she said.

As Elon Musk, the head of Doge, arrived at the White House on Friday afternoon to be congratulated by President Trump for his work slashing the federal budget, the number of deaths on Nichols’s tracker hit 300,000, more than 200,000 of them children.

The “optics” of the world’s richest man taking from its poorest and getting thanked for it were “horrifying’, said Nichols, associate professor of global health at the university’s school of public health.

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/usaid-doge-deaths-children-cuts-7nb83dfkp

[thought crime]

12. He doesn't want to take responsibility for his own actions

The Nazi salutes, among many other things. We won't forget.

[samsingh]

13. very republican of him to avoid taking responsibility for destruction caused by his policies

[thesquanderer]

14. It doesn't matter. We still ain't buying Teslas. (n/t)

[Polybius]

25. You'd be surprised

A significant amount of DUers have them.

[thesquanderer]

26. I doubt many DUers have bought them this year, once Musk became Trump's partner in crime (n/t)

[bmichaelh]

15. Translation

Translation:

Anything that succeeds, Musk is responsible for.

Anything that fails, is Trump's fault.

Conclusion:

Everything that Trump touches dies.
Musk will not take responsible for anything because everything will fail.

[Hotler]

16. When we take power again we'll hang identity theft of millions of citizens around your neck. nt

[WMDemocract]

17. "don't blame me"

Oh now he wants to play the “don’t blame me” card? Sorry, Elon — you rode shotgun on this trainwreck. You don’t get to act like a passive bystander now.
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-683a3f8e4b208191a41a257dfcf4a107-trump-s-record

[turbinetree]

18. Fuck you........... you and him own the shit show right along with other supporting traitors.........

including every fucking maga republican in this country,..........

[newdeal2]

19. Mr. free speech is afraid to speak up

Hmm another case of FAFO?

[live love laugh]

20. He is not saying very much at all.

[BradBo]

21. You mean like being directly responsible for American deaths.

Elon…..you mean that? Fuck You

[Quanto Magnus]

22. but he's totally fine with

gleefully wrecking thousands of people's lives....

[AllaN01Bear]

23. who created doge ? who appointed musk to head doge to say thanks for electing him? taco chicken.

[struggle4progress]

24. "Who is this crazy man and what is he doing here in my bed?"

[Javaman]

27. typical sociopath narcissist. when "things" are going great, he wants all the credit

but when things turn south, "not my fault"

he's trying so hard to his polish his turd of a personality.

[electric_blue68]

28. You Bought it, you OWN it, Eloon!