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Musk: Not responsible for all decisions of Trump
Updated on 02.06.2025 – 06:57 a.m.Reading time: 14 min.
US defense minister Hegseth appeals to the Asian allies. Musk sees differences in opinion with Trump. All developments in the news blog.
The tech billionaire Elon Musk, whose time ended as a special representative of the US government on Friday, said in an interview on Sunday that he did not want to take responsibility for all the Trump government’s actions. In a conversation with CBS News’ “Sunday Morning”, Musk said that he disagreed with some decisions by President Trump – even if he hesitated to go into more detail, as this could provide “Zündstoff”.
“It is not the case that I agree to everything the government does,” emphasized Musk in the interview. “I agree with a lot of what the government is doing, but there are differences in opinion. There are things that I do not completely agree with.” “But it is difficult for me to address this in an interview because it then becomes a point of dispute,” added Musk. “So I am in a somewhat difficult situation in which I think: ‘Well, I don’t want to speak against the government, but I don’t want to take responsibility for everything this government does,” he said.
The billionaire and space tourist Jared Isaacman proposed by US President Donald Trump as the new head of the NASA space authority and space tourist Jared Isaacman should not take over. Trump said that he had withdrawn the nomination of the 42-year-old “after a thorough review of previous connections” about his online platform Truth. He will soon announce a new candidate who “will put America to the first place in space”. Read more about this here.
China has criticized the call from US Defense Minister Pete Hegseth to the allies in the Indopazacifik for more expenses for his own defense. The statements are “disparaging”, “regrettable” and “geared towards sowing split,” said the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“Hegseth deliberately ignored the call of the countries in the region to peace and development and instead campaigned with the mentality of the Cold War for a block confrontation, disparaged China with defaming claims and incorrectly called China a ‘threat’,” wrote the ministry on its website. “The United States have stationed offensive weapons in the South China Sea and continue to fuel the tensions in the Asian-Pacific area that transform the region into a powder barrel,” said the authority’s statement.
The federal government’s transatlantic coordinator, Metin Hakverdi (SPD), hopes for the first personal conversation between Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) and US President Donald Trump the basis for a good relationship between the two statesmen. “It would be desirable if the Chancellor and the US President could develop a good personal connection at this first meeting,” Hakverdi told Tagesspiegel.
However, one should “not expect too much” from the date in the White House announced for Thursday. “The US President is too unpredictable for that.” Hakverdi considers it possible that Merz Trump can “win a common peace initiative for Ukraine” for “at best”.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has rejected a report on alleged drug use during the 2024 election campaign. “To make it clear, I don’t take drugs,” said Musk on Saturday in online service X about a report by the “New York Times”, whereby he emphasized the word “none” with capital letters. The newspaper attacked Musk sharply: “The ‘New York Times’ turned away.”
The report triggered in Washington in Washington. Shortly before a joint appearance by Musk with US President Donald Trump in the White House, the newspaper reported that the Tesla and SpaceX boss took so much ketamine during the 2024 election campaign that he got bladder problems. It was unclear whether he also took drugs during his work as Trump’s consultant.
Musk now commented on the words that he tried “prescription” ketamine a few years ago. This is nothing new, he had previously commented on X at X. To take his ketamine, he said: “It helps to get out of dark mental holes, but I haven’t taken it since then.”
