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Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Elon Musk called on Thursday to “eliminate entire agencies” from the United States government as part of its impulse under President Trump to radically reduce spending and restructure their priorities.
Musk offered a wide range survey through a videocalio to the World Government Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, of what he described as the priorities of the Trump administration intercalated with multiple references to the “thermonuclear war” and the possible dangers of artificial intelligence.
In observations similar to Those he made in Tuesday’s oval officeAnd with the president observing, Musk said: “We really have here the rule of bureaucracy instead of people’s rule, democracy,” Musk said, with a black shirt that said: “Technical support.” He also joked saying that it was the “Technical Support of the White House”, borrowing from his profile on the social platform X, which he owns.
“I think we need to eliminate entire agencies instead of leaving many of them behind,” Musk said. “If we do not eliminate the roots of the grass, then it is easy for the weed to grow again.”
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While Musk has spoken with the summit in the past, his appearance on Thursday arrives when he has consolidated control over great government stripes with the blessing of Mr. Trump since he assumed Government Efficiency Department Leadership. That includes career career officials, obtaining access to sensitive databases and inviting a constitutional shock on the limits of the presidential authority.
Musk’s new role gave his comments more weight beyond being the richest person in the world through his investments in Spacex and the Electric Automobile manufacturer Tesla.
His comments also offered a more isolacionist vision of American power in the Middle East, where the United States has fought against wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
“A lot of attention has been in Usaid, for example,” Musk said, referring to Mr. Trump’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development. “There is as the national endowment for democracy. But I’m like, ‘ok, well, how much democracy has achieved lately?'”
He added that the United States under Mr. Trump is “less interested in interfering with the affairs of other countries.”
There are “times that the United States has been a bit aggressive in international affairs, which can resonate with some members of the audience,” Musk said, speaking with the multitude of the EAU, a nation of seven sheikhs governed autocratically.
“Basically, the United States should import your own business, instead of promoting regime change throughout the place,” he said.
Also pointed out the Trump administration approach in Eliminate work of diversity, equity and inclusionat a time linking it with AI.
“If hypothetically, AI is designed for Dei, you know, diversity at all costs could decide that there are too many men in power and execute them,” Musk said.
In AI, Musk said he believed that the recently updated chatbot AI, Grok 3, would be ready in about two weeks, calling him at a “scary” moment. Criticized Sam Altman’s management from Operai, which Musk has just leads an acquisition offer of $ 97.4 billion todescribing it as similar to a non -profit organization aimed at saving the Amazon jungle becoming a “wooden company that cuts the trees.”
Musk also announced plans for a “Dubai Loop” project in line with his work in The boring company – It is to dig tunnels in Las Vegas to accelerate traffic. However, he and the Emirati government official who talks to him did not offer immediate details of the plan.
“It will be like a worm hole,” Musk promised. “You simply like one part of the city, boom, and you are in another part of the city.”