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Musk Failed to Navigate Washington
AlArabiya English
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6/7/2025
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And Freddie, you predicted this fallout last week when Musk stepped down from his government
00:06
role. You said this world was one which Elon just could not conquer. Why do you think that this is?
00:16
I think Washington is a very different place. And it's something that businessmen, Donald Trump
00:24
found this in his first term. Businessmen, CEOs think that you can go in, kind of tell people
00:29
what to do, make difficult decisions, and it all happens very easily. But of course, it's much
00:34
more complicated than that, because the federal government is a huge sclerotic beast, and it's
00:40
massively in debt. And so therefore, Musk coming in, in charge of trying to bring down the deficit,
00:47
bring down the national debt, he struggled, because he just doesn't understand, didn't
00:53
understand the level of corruption often in politics, and the level of horse trading that
01:01
goes on, and the sheer backstabbing and viper's nest is Washington. Trump has adapted to Washington
01:09
to some extent. His team did not like Elon Musk. Trump, I think, has always wanted to get on with
01:16
Elon Musk, admired him, another great successful businessman, the richest man in the world, and so on.
01:21
But Trump's team, his cabinet, his close advisors, they quickly found that they couldn't really work
01:28
with Musk. He didn't get Washington, he was alien to them, and they were alien to him.
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