Ice Cream From Trump And A 'comically Tiny Office': Inside Elon Musk's Wild 3 Months Getting Doge Rolling

Elon Musk says he saved nan U.S. payer much than $160 cardinal during his first 3 months getting nan Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) disconnected nan crushed — but he besides enjoyed midnight snacks of crystal pick from nan White House kitchen, a "comically mini office" and a relationship pinch President Donald Trump. 

Fox News Digital was invited, on pinch a mini group of reporters, to person an on-the-record chat with Musk successful nan White House's Roosevelt Room connected Wednesday evening astir his first 100 days arsenic a typical authorities employee.

That position allowed him to activity for nan national authorities for "no much than 130 days successful a 365-day period," according to information from nan Office of Government Ethics. Musk said nan first 100 days was "an aggravated period" and said astatine times, he was successful Washington, D.C., moving connected his DOGE efforts "7 days a week, aliases adjacent to 7 days a week." 

Musk said he will trim that down to 1 aliases 2 days a week, aliases each different week, and will proceed moving for nan Trump management "at nan discretion of nan president." 

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Elon Musk, left, and President Donald Trump talk astir DOGE's efforts to analyse wasteful U.S. authorities spending from nan Oval Office of nan White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Feb. 11, 2025. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

"I’m consenting to lend 1 to 2 days a week, coming to D.C. each different week for 1 to 3 days—indefinitely, arsenic agelong arsenic nan president wants maine to do that," Musk said. "It’s mostly a unpaid organization." 

Musk, successful consequence to a mobility from Fox News Digital, said he has slept successful nan White House’s Lincoln chamber aggregate times. 

"I didn’t deliberation I would ever slumber successful there," Musk said. "The president, we’re bully friends, and we’ll beryllium connected Air Force One, aliases Marine One, and he’ll beryllium like, ‘do you want to enactment over?’ and I’ll beryllium like, ‘sure,’ and he’ll nonstop maine to nan Lincoln bedroom." 

Musk said he did not ever "request it," but that Trump would ever inquire "'do you want to enactment here?'"

DOGE leader Elon Musk has been deed pinch 96% antagonistic sum connected ABC, NBC and CBS evening newscasts, according to nan Media Research Center. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

"And he gave maine a circuit of nan Lincoln bedroom, and told maine each nan history," Musk said.

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"And then, he’ll really telephone maine precocious nighttime and say, ‘by nan way, make judge you get crystal pick from nan kitchen," Musk recalled. "I ate a full tub of crystal cream—caramel. Häagen-Dazs." 

Musk laughed, "Yeah, it's epic." 

"Don’t show RFK I ate a full tub," Musk laughed. "The president is simply a very bully host, and he said, make judge you person immoderate of nan crystal cream, and I said OK. I went to nan room and sewage immoderate crystal cream." 

When asked for nan nonstop number of nights Musk slept successful nan Lincoln bedroom, he replied, "I don’t cognize if I should opportunity nan number—more than once." 

Musk was besides fixed a mini agency successful nan White House, which he said he intends to keep. 

"I’m keeping my micro-office," Musk said, adding that it is "on nan apical level it has a position of nothing." 

"It has a model but each you spot is an HVAC unit," Musk explained. "I conjecture it’s harder to sprout me—there’s not a bully statement of show successful there." 

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, right, speaks pinch then-former President Donald Trump during a run arena astatine nan Butler Farm Show connected Oct. 5, 2024 successful Butler, Pennsylvania. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

"I for illustration my comically mini agency upstairs," Musk said, adding that, while it is tiny, he has "the biggest monitor," wherever he views "important information—secret stuff." Musk admitted, though, that he has "occasionally played a video game." 

When asked by Fox News Digital which video game, Musk laughed and said, "Diablo successful nan Path of Exile." 

As for DOGE, Musk said he is proud of its activity truthful far, and "in nan expansive strategy of things, I deliberation we’ve been effective," conscionable "not arsenic effective arsenic I’d like." 

"I deliberation we could beryllium much effective, but we’ve made advancement —and much advancement than I deliberation has happened since Clinton and Gore," Musk said. "It is ironic to spot nan Clinton and Gore speeches — they sound for illustration DOGE. If you took a transcript and opportunity who said it? DOGE aliases Clinton-Gore? You would person a difficult time. They sound identical to what we say." 

He added, "We are conscionable Democrats from nan '90s who sewage teleported into 2025."

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"Things person conscionable evolved. There is that classical saying, we didn’t time off nan Democratic Party — nan Democratic Party near us," Musk continued. "Just, objectively, from a argumentation standpoint, that is conscionable objectively true. Our goals are safe cities, unafraid borders, sensible spending—these utilized to beryllium Democrat positions and possibly they will beryllium successful nan early — but they conscionable look for illustration communal sense." 

Meanwhile, Musk reflected connected his day-to-day for nan first 100 days, saying that things "have to beryllium very aggravated for nan first 3 months, truthful trying to understand what’s going connected and representation retired nan authorities successful general." 

"The national authorities is simply a gigantic beast — very analyzable — and truthful if you’re trying to fig retired really to extremity discarded and fraud, you’ve sewage to representation nan territory," Musk said. "That required 3 months of aggravated effort, and you person to build nan squad arsenic well." 

President Donald Trump, right, and White House elder advisor, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, depart aft looking astatine Tesla vehicles connected nan South Lawn of nan White House connected March 11, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

"A caller management is for illustration a start-up," Musk continued. "Now, we’re getting much of a hit and truthful nan magnitude of clip basal for maine to walk present is overmuch little and I tin return to chiefly moving my companies, which do request me." 

Fox News Digital asked Musk if he has had nosy during his first 3 months starring DOGE. 

"It’s like, 60% fun. 70% nosy — depends connected nan week," Musk said. "But being attacked relentlessly is not ace fun. Seeing cars burning is not fun. But erstwhile I consciousness for illustration we’re doing bully for nan American payer and stopping wasteful spending and fixing machine systems, I consciousness for illustration that’s a bully thing." 

A DOGE charismatic astatine nan gathering connected Wednesday said that 1% of nan national workforce, aliases somewhat much than 20,000 people, person been fired. However, that charismatic stressed that nan national authorities has "hired 26,000 people." 

"So we person hired much group than we’ve fired," nan charismatic said. 

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Musk chimed successful and said, successful America, "we really want to person less group successful nan national authorities and much group making things." 

Musk besides told reporters that DOGE has referred cases of fraud to nan Justice Department for criminal prosecution. 

"The wheels of justness move slow but, hopefully, surely," Musk said. "When we find cases of fraud, we mention those cases to nan DOJ — it is not DOGE prosecuting anyone." 

Musk said location are "hundreds of thousands of cases of what look to beryllium fraud," but a DOGE charismatic said they person referred, astatine this point, 57 cases of imaginable elector fraud to nan DOJ. 

President Donald Trump, right, is joined by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and his son, X Musk, during an executive bid signing successful nan Oval Office astatine nan White House connected Feb. 11, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Musk besides said he will meet pinch nan House DOGE caucus adjacent week, and said his activity pinch House and Senate lawmakers has been "extremely positive."

At nan extremity of nan conversation, Musk laughed and said, "It is funny that we’ve sewage DOGE." 

"Are we successful a simulation here? Or what’s going on? How did we get here?!" Musk laughed.

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"I’m proud of nan unthinkable activity by nan DOGE squad who person taken a batch of flak and these are group who could easy get high-paying jobs successful nan backstage sector, and, successful fact, came from high-paying jobs successful nan backstage sector," Musk said.

DOGE has less than 100 employees.

"Some will enactment on, immoderate will not," Musk said. "It is up to them. This is fundamentally a unpaid organization."

When asked if DOGE is winding down, Musk said, "No."

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"DOGE is simply a measurement of life," Musk said. "Like Buddhism. You wouldn’t inquire who would lead Buddhism."

When asked who would lead DOGE erstwhile Musk is not successful Washington, Musk replied, "Is Buddha needed for Buddhism?"