Musk led the DOGE team in seeking to slash the federal government's budget and workforce in the first five months of Trump's second term. But the role and his political rhetoric sparked a backlash against him and Tesla, including vandalism of Tesla cars. "I think instead of doing DOGE, I would have basically worked on my companies. And they wouldn't have been burning the cars," Musk said on the podcast with former Trump administration official Katie Miller.
