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Trump Participates in a Press Conference with Elon Musk, May 30, 2025

May 30, 2025 · The White House · 0:52:45

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What happened

President Donald Trump participated in a press conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office on May 30, 2025, carried in full on the White House channel. The President opened by playing a CNBC segment in which Rick Santelli cited personal income up 0.8 percent — “almost triple the expectations,” as Santelli stated the figure — and a trade deficit cut, before turning to Musk: “Today, it’s about a man named Elon, and he’s one of the greatest business leaders and innovators the world has ever produced. He stepped forward to put his very great talents into the service of our nation and we appreciate it,” he said.

Of the Department of Government Efficiency, the President said: “With the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon’s delivered a colossal change in the old ways of doing business in Washington,” adding that the savings numbers “are substantial, but they’re going to be very much more substantial with time… the numbers could double and triple,” as he stated the trajectory, and that DOGE’s teams were helping “detect fraud, slash waste, and modernize broken and outdated systems,” as he described the work.

Why it matters

This press conference is the Musk chapter’s formal close, on the record: the President’s fullest statement of what DOGE was and what its numbers would become, delivered beside Musk himself, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in the room as the economic figures were presented.

Scoreboard candidate

Scoreboard candidate: the President’s May 30, 2025 statement that the DOGE savings figures could double or triple over time, as stated at the Musk press conference — flagged for the scoreboard editors; the entry itself remains review-gated.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Participates in a Press Conference with Elon Musk” (official upload, embedded above). A White House clip of the President’s DOGE remarks from the same event is recorded as an alternate in the index. All figures and characterizations as stated by the President and by Rick Santelli in the segment played at the event.