Musk boasts about ‘thrashing bureaucracy’ in cosy joint interview with Trump – US politics live

Donald Trump and Elon Musk lavished praise on each other while defending the Doge overhaul in a joint interview on Fox News.

Musk boasted of a “thrashing of the bureaucracy as we try to restore democracy and the will of the people” when asked about criticism of the so-called “department of government efficiency”.

The pair joked around in the cosy hour-long primetime TV interview with Sean Hannity who at one point was moved to say: “I feel like I’m interviewing two brothers here.”

Trump said Musk, as the face of Doge had identified 1% in waste, fraud and abuse adding that he thinks the billionaire is “going to find $1tn”.