Published Jul 23, 2026, 11:27 AM ET · Updated 4 months ago · 1 source

‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit

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‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit

Elon Musk has admitted he became too consumed by politics during his volatile alliance with Donald Trump and his brief appointment as the president’s financial axman, running the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge). The world’s 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 fro