President Trump isn’t letting Elon Musk go anywhere just yet—and judging by what’s coming down the pike, that might be a good thing.
During a press gaggle aboard Air Force One this week, Trump poured ice water on the swirling rumors that Musk might soon exit his role as a special government employee in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Why? Because, according to the president, Musk’s team just unearthed something “horrible”—and the American people are about to find out what it is.
“They found something today that’s horrible, it’s horrible,” Trump said ominously when asked about Musk’s future in the administration. Pressed for details, the president replied, “you’ll find out very soon.”
DOGE: Trump warned, “They found something today that is horrible. It is horrible. You will find out very soon. What they found is incredible." pic.twitter.com/uWqfuExGDH
— @amuse (@amuse) April 4, 2025
If that doesn’t pique your interest, you haven’t been paying attention. DOGE has already peeled back the lid on a rotting stew of corruption and dysfunction inside the federal government. We’re talking about government employee retirement records stored in abandoned limestone mines. Social Security numbers handed out like Halloween candy to illegal aliens—many of whom later voted in the 2024 election. And billions of dollars in taxpayer money funneled into things like “user satisfaction surveys” for federal websites that nobody reads and nobody acts on.
This is what Musk and Trump have been hammering away at for the first 73 days of Trump’s second term: systemic waste, bureaucratic corruption, and sheer idiocy that would make any private-sector CEO faint. And somehow, they’re just getting started.
Last week, Musk disclosed on Fox News that the National Parks Service spent over a billion dollars conducting surveys—yes, surveys—that no one apparently planned to use. DOGE later clarified that while $75 million had been spent designing the surveys, the real kicker was an attempted $830 million contract to expand the effort. That insanity has since been canceled, but only after Musk’s watchdog team got involved.
Now imagine what’s worse than that. Because Trump’s cryptic “you’ll find out very soon” bombshell suggests something even more outrageous is about to drop. And if it’s big enough to delay Musk’s return to Tesla, SpaceX, and X, you can bet it’ll be another nuclear political moment.
The left, naturally, is losing its collective mind over Musk’s involvement in government. They accuse him of being unaccountable, too rich, too erratic, too whatever. But here’s the thing—they’re not mad because he’s ineffective. They’re mad because he’s wildly effective.
And Trump? He’s loving every second of it.
“As long as he likes it,” Trump said when asked how long Musk will stay. “I like smart people—and he’s a smart person.”
Translation: The Swamp’s worst nightmare is far from over.