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On February 10, 2025, President Donald Trump provided insights into his administration’s approach to government spending and allegations of fraud during an exclusive interview. Here are the key points he made:

• Collaboration with Elon Musk: Trump praised Elon for his assistance in rooting out government waste, mentioning Elon’s campaign support and his innovative work with rockets.
• Focus on USAID: Trump highlighted significant fraud within USAID, suggesting it’s been a problem for years.
• Future Audits: He announced plans for Elon Musk’s DOGE to investigate the Department of Education and the military for potential fraud.
• Public Support: Trump said addressing these issues was part of his campaign promise, and he has public support to proceed.
• Expansion of Team: He highlighted the growth of Elon Musk’s team from 12 to 100 members, describing them as young geniuses.

Quote from President Trump:

“And I’ve had great help with Elon Musk, who’s been terrific. He comes in with 100 very smart people; we started off with 12, then it went to 15, then it went to 25, and everybody wants to join, and I guess you have to have an IQ of about 175 at least to do it, they’re a smart group of people, they don’t dress as well as you, or maybe me, but they are smart, and they go in there and they talk to people, and people get all tongue-tied because nobody thought this would be caught.”

Fox: How does it work with Elon day to day? Does he come in and say, ‘this is what we are working on, here is what we are doing?’

Trump: First of all, he’s a great guy, he was never really a supporter or not a supporter, he was a semi-neutral kind of a guy, not a political person, very smart. Brilliant person, which I like. I’m a big believer in IQ points, and it’s a good thing. I’ve gotten to know him a little bit over the last couple of years. During the campaign, he liked what I said, he went to Pennsylvania; he actually campaigned right after the rocket ship went up where he caught it coming down, nobody’s done that before. Then he took off; he went to Pennsylvania, actually campaigned for me, and did a very good job. I won Pennsylvania by a lot, I won everything by a lot.

But Elon, I’d say go in here because USAID — I heard very bad things about for years. I mean, you did too; I’m sure you did too. It’s a scam, it’s a fraud, a lot of it, most of it, but look at the jobs that they produced for people. I’m not even gonna mention the name; it’s too big of a show to mention their name, it’s almost unfair, but the whole thing is a giant fraud, and I think judges will have to do the right thing, really, otherwise you’re gonna have a whole big problem with the country.

Fox: Now, you say you trust him.

Trump: Trust Elon? Oh! He’s not gaming anything. I wonder how he can devote the time to it, he’s so into it, but I told him to do that, then I’m gonna tell him very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education. He’s gonna find the same thing. Then I’m gonna go to the military — let’s check the military; we’re gonna find billions and hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse.

And you know, the people elected me on that, and we have a group of people that you just can’t get — I mean, these are really brilliant. I call it the group of 100; we literally started off with 14 or 15 young geniuses, now we have 100 young geniuses. What’s happening, I’ll probably get a lot from the show — people are calling up from all over the country wanting to do and wanting to help Elon. You know, they respect him, and they respect me; they love what’s happening with our country, but I campaigned on this.”

Note: This is a verbatim transcription of President Trump’s statements from the interview.

However, not all are pleased with this collaboration. Representative Maxine Waters has openly criticized both Trump and Musk. In a recent rally, she expressed frustration, stating, “We have got to tell Elon Musk that nobody elected your ass. Nobody told you you could get all of our private information. Nobody told you you could be in charge of the payments of this country.”

Sources:

• Fox News Exclusive Interview, February 10, 2025
• Maxine Waters’ quote from a public rally as reported by various news outlets.