'It's not enormous,' Musk added of his security detail. 'Maybe it should be bigger.'
Elon Musk
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Elon Musk is a prominent entrepreneur and business magnate, known for his role as the CEO of Tesla, Inc. and SpaceX. Born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk has become a significant figure in the technology and automotive industries. He has been instrumental in advancing electric vehicles and space exploration, with a vision to reduce global warming and make life multi-planetary. Musk has also founded several other companies, including Neuralink and The Boring Company, and has been involved in various initiatives related to artificial intelligence and renewable energy.
The actions that we're taking with the support of the president and the support of the agencies is what will save Medicare, what will save Social Security.
I think what we’re seeing here is the sort of — the thrashing of the bureaucracy as we try to restore democracy and the will of the people.
You know, if you ask the average person, ‘Hey, do you want to get rid of the FAA ...?’, ... Like, hell no.
We have this fourth, unelected, unconstitutional branch which is the bureaucracy. If the bureaucracy is in charge, then what meaning does democracy actually have?
So you can see everything that's going on, and then you can see, am I doing something that benefits one of my companies or not? It's totally obvious.
Now, do you know anyone that’s 150? I don’t. They should be in the Guinness Book of World Records. … So that’s a case where I think they’re probably dead.
The scrutiny on me is extreme, so it's not like I could 'get away' with something, nor do I have any incentive to do so.
I check with the president to make sure that this is what the president wants to happen.
Regulations, basically, should be default gone. Not default there, default gone.
These regulations are added willy-nilly all the time. So we’ve just got to do a wholesale, spring cleaning of regulation and get the government off the backs of everyday Americans so people can get things done.
If the government has millions of regulations holding everyone back, well, it’s not freedom. We’ve got to restore freedom.
SpaceX was forced by the government to kidnap seals, put earphones on them and play sonic boom sounds to see if they seemed upset.