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BumRushDaShow

(159,678 posts)
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 03:32 AM Jun 2025

Musk says he doesn't want to 'take responsibility' for all Trump actions

Source: The Hill

06/01/25 4:09 PM ET


Tech billionaire Elon Musk, whose time as a special government employee came to an end on Friday, said in a Sunday interview that he doesn’t want to “take responsibility” for all actions of the Trump administration. In an interview on CBS News’s “Sunday Morning,”

Musk said he disagrees with some moves President Trump has made, though he hesitated to discuss them in more detail, saying that doing so might create “a bone of contention.” “It’s not like I agree with everything the administration does,” Musk said in the interview. “I mean, I agree with much of what the administration does, but we have differences of opinion. You know, there are things that I don’t entirely agree with.”

“But it’s difficult for me to bring that up in an interview because then it creates a bone of contention,” Musk continued. “So then, I’m a little stuck in a bind, where I’m like, ‘Well, I don’t want to, you know, speak up against the administration, but I also don’t want to take responsibility for everything this administration’s doing,’” he added.

Musk made sweeping changes at multiple federal agencies through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) over the last few months. He has said he will continue to advise the president when asked, even though his official role as senior adviser to the president has come to an end.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5327997-elon-musk-trump-administration-bind/

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Musk says he doesn't want to 'take responsibility' for all Trump actions (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jun 2025 OP
What a spineless jellyfish this freak is. Blues Heron Jun 2025 #1
Um... dare I say "TOO LATE"? calimary Jun 2025 #2
Too bad Deminpenn Jun 2025 #3
" I don't want to speak up ... but I also don't want to take responsibility " speak easy Jun 2025 #4
Proof that money can't buy guts, or brains Walleye Jun 2025 #5
Well, if all were going "well," you'd bet that Elon would be taking full credit for it. no_hypocrisy Jun 2025 #6
🙄 fuck off, traitor! ecstatic Jun 2025 #7
He's not all that bright but seems to have finally realized... NNadir Jun 2025 #8
Tough shit, Musk. Your fate is sealed. Paladin Jun 2025 #9
So, the 'genious' has discovered ..... 70sEraVet Jun 2025 #10
The 300,000 dead from the withdrawal of USAID support is all on Elon. Botany Jun 2025 #11
He doesn't want to take responsibility for his own actions thought crime Jun 2025 #12
very republican of him to avoid taking responsibility for destruction caused by his policies samsingh Jun 2025 #13
It doesn't matter. We still ain't buying Teslas. (n/t) thesquanderer Jun 2025 #14
You'd be surprised Polybius Jun 2025 #25
I doubt many DUers have bought them this year, once Musk became Trump's partner in crime (n/t) thesquanderer Jun 2025 #26
Translation bmichaelh Jun 2025 #15
When we take power again we'll hang identity theft of millions of citizens around your neck. nt Hotler Jun 2025 #16
"don't blame me" WMDemocract Jun 2025 #17
Fuck you........... you and him own the shit show right along with other supporting traitors......... turbinetree Jun 2025 #18
Mr. free speech is afraid to speak up newdeal2 Jun 2025 #19
He is not saying very much at all. live love laugh Jun 2025 #20
You mean like being directly responsible for American deaths. BradBo Jun 2025 #21
but he's totally fine with Quanto Magnus Jun 2025 #22
who created doge ? who appointed musk to head doge to say thanks for electing him? taco chicken. AllaN01Bear Jun 2025 #23
"Who is this crazy man and what is he doing here in my bed?" struggle4progress Jun 2025 #24
typical sociopath narcissist. when "things" are going great, he wants all the credit Javaman Jun 2025 #27
You Bought it, you OWN it, Bub! electric_blue68 Jun 2025 #28

calimary

(87,741 posts)
2. Um... dare I say "TOO LATE"?
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 03:40 AM
Jun 2025

Nobody held a gun to your head and made you do it, Elon. You strolled right into it, all by your itty bitty self.

speak easy

(12,377 posts)
4. " I don't want to speak up ... but I also don't want to take responsibility "
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 05:08 AM
Jun 2025

Silence is consent you disgusting POS.

Walleye

(42,293 posts)
5. Proof that money can't buy guts, or brains
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 05:23 AM
Jun 2025

All these macho guys are really such lily-livered cowards

no_hypocrisy

(52,988 posts)
6. Well, if all were going "well," you'd bet that Elon would be taking full credit for it.
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 05:39 AM
Jun 2025

And in the legal doctrine of Principal and Agent, while the Principal can be held liable for the acts of his/her/its Agent, the Agent is still liable for the damage done by his/her/its acts. All the DOGE BS, etc. is attributable to both TSF and Musk no matter how the jobs were delegated beneath them.

ecstatic

(34,910 posts)
7. 🙄 fuck off, traitor!
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 06:48 AM
Jun 2025

What nerve! You don't get to quibble about your exact contributions to a fascist coup.

NNadir

(36,554 posts)
8. He's not all that bright but seems to have finally realized...
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 07:53 AM
Jun 2025

Last edited Mon Jun 2, 2025, 03:31 PM - Edit history (1)

...that everything Trump touches dies, including the country to which Musk immigrated and did so much to destroy.

Paladin

(31,559 posts)
9. Tough shit, Musk. Your fate is sealed.
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 07:55 AM
Jun 2025

If you want any sympathy or pointers on how to deal with things, check in with Giuliani, the My Pillow guy, or any of the many others that trump has dicked in the dirt over the years, in return for the valuable favors they did for him. Here's hoping the rest of trump's henchmen stay as clueless as you about their futures, because that's what they deserve...

70sEraVet

(4,867 posts)
10. So, the 'genious' has discovered .....
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 09:18 AM
Jun 2025

that when you ACT like a Nazi, people are going to assume that you ARE one.

Botany

(75,249 posts)
11. The 300,000 dead from the withdrawal of USAID support is all on Elon.
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 10:09 AM
Jun 2025

But to Musk that is a bonus because most of the dead were black children in Africa.

The mathematician and professor of infectious diseases at Boston University had created a model to predict the human cost of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (Doge) USAid funding cuts.

What Nichols had not appreciated was what was killing people, and just how quickly it appeared to be killing them. A death was estimated to be happening somewhere in the world every three minutes. “It was just shocking,” she said.

As Elon Musk, the head of Doge, arrived at the White House on Friday afternoon to be congratulated by President Trump for his work slashing the federal budget, the number of deaths on Nichols’s tracker hit 300,000, more than 200,000 of them children.

The “optics” of the world’s richest man taking from its poorest and getting thanked for it were “horrifying’, said Nichols, associate professor of global health at the university’s school of public health.

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/usaid-doge-deaths-children-cuts-7nb83dfkp





thought crime

(758 posts)
12. He doesn't want to take responsibility for his own actions
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 10:21 AM
Jun 2025

The Nazi salutes, among many other things. We won't forget.

samsingh

(18,157 posts)
13. very republican of him to avoid taking responsibility for destruction caused by his policies
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 10:48 AM
Jun 2025

thesquanderer

(12,761 posts)
26. I doubt many DUers have bought them this year, once Musk became Trump's partner in crime (n/t)
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 11:58 PM
Jun 2025

bmichaelh

(929 posts)
15. Translation
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 12:12 PM
Jun 2025

Translation:

Anything that succeeds, Musk is responsible for.

Anything that fails, is Trump's fault.

Conclusion:

Everything that Trump touches dies.
Musk will not take responsible for anything because everything will fail.

Hotler

(13,418 posts)
16. When we take power again we'll hang identity theft of millions of citizens around your neck. nt
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 12:14 PM
Jun 2025

WMDemocract

(52 posts)
17. "don't blame me"
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 12:45 PM
Jun 2025

Oh now he wants to play the “don’t blame me” card? Sorry, Elon — you rode shotgun on this trainwreck. You don’t get to act like a passive bystander now.
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-683a3f8e4b208191a41a257dfcf4a107-trump-s-record






turbinetree

(26,507 posts)
18. Fuck you........... you and him own the shit show right along with other supporting traitors.........
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 02:10 PM
Jun 2025

including every fucking maga republican in this country,..........

BradBo

(772 posts)
21. You mean like being directly responsible for American deaths.
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 05:35 PM
Jun 2025

Elon…..you mean that? Fuck You

AllaN01Bear

(27,347 posts)
23. who created doge ? who appointed musk to head doge to say thanks for electing him? taco chicken.
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 08:22 PM
Jun 2025

Javaman

(64,454 posts)
27. typical sociopath narcissist. when "things" are going great, he wants all the credit
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 07:48 AM
Jun 2025

but when things turn south, "not my fault"

he's trying so hard to his polish his turd of a personality.

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