{"id":24074,"date":"2026-07-23T23:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/elon-musk-says-he-got-carried-away-with-trump-but-still-holds-on-to-contentious-political-views\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T23:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:37:14","slug":"elon-musk-says-he-got-carried-away-with-trump-but-still-holds-on-to-contentious-political-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/elon-musk-says-he-got-carried-away-with-trump-but-still-holds-on-to-contentious-political-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says he got \u2018carried away\u2019 with Trump \u2013 but still holds on to contentious political views"},"content":{"rendered":"

In interview, billionaire says instead of running \u2018Doge\u2019 he should\u2019ve \u2018worked on my companies\u2019 and shares extreme predictions<\/p>\n

Elon Musk has admitted he became too consumed by politics during his volatile alliance with Donald Trump and his brief appointment as the president\u2019s financial axman, running the so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge).<\/p>\n

The world\u2019s richest person, and briefly its first trillionaire<\/a> after his SpaceX company floated on the New York stock exchange in June, made the confession in a wide-ranging interview<\/a> with the Economist published on Thursday. He shared his positions on subjects from foreign wars to AI, and made a number of eye-opening predictions for the future.<\/p>\n

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\nIn interview, billionaire says instead of running \u2018Doge\u2019 he should\u2019ve \u2018worked on my companies\u2019 and shares extreme predictions
\nElon Musk has admitted he became too consumed by politics during his volatile alliance with Donald Trump and his brief appointment as the president\u2019s financial axman, running the so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge).
\nThe world\u2019s richest person, and briefly its first trillionaire after his SpaceX company floated on the New York stock exchange in June, made the confession in a wide-ranging interview with the Economist published on Thursday. He shared his positions on subjects from foreign wars to AI, and made a number of eye-opening predictions for the future. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In interview, billionaire says instead of running \u2018Doge\u2019 he should\u2019ve \u2018worked on my companies\u2019 and shares extreme predictions Elon Musk has admitted he became too consumed by politics during his volatile alliance with Donald Trump and his brief appointment as the president\u2019s financial axman, running the so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge). The world\u2019s richest …<\/p>\n

Elon Musk says he got \u2018carried away\u2019 with Trump \u2013 but still holds on to contentious political views<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24074"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}