The joint interview comes as Trump and Musk continue to implement sweeping cuts across the government. Thousands of federal workers have already been fired after President Trump signed an executive order last week instructing heads of federal departments and agencies to make "large-scale reductions in force.

The missive is just the latest way in which Mr Musk’s war on waste and fraud in government risks descending into farce. Two days before, he appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference with Javier Milei,

Elon Musk has had it with judges blocking the Trump administration’s moves. The billionaire face of DOGE called for the impeachment of judges in a meltdown on X Tuesday night, following a flurry of court orders blocking the government’s bids to freeze funding for foreign aid and federal grants,