The head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was photographed wearing a red baseball cap with ‘Trump Was Right About Everything!’ in all-capital letters and ’45-47′ stitched on the side.
Musk was the only one at the cabinet meeting wearing a MAGA hat. He wore it with a black suit jacket and black shirt.
The president said in the meeting that ‘Elon’s a patriot, we want to thank you very much for the job you’re doing, thank you very much.’
Musk also wrote on X: ‘Just trying to the right thing for the American taxpayer and for the American people.’
‘Just a thank you to the DOGE team who are likely going to get threats and being accosted. A lot of them are just kids, you know, they’re just trying to help out. And they’re very talented, they could get jobs and earn millions of dollars a year. Instead, they come here to earn peanuts and get death threats, so thanks to the DOGE team.’
Musk appeared at the meeting alongside Trump’s other top advisors only hours after a federal judge blocked DOGE from accessing Americans’ public data with the Treasury Department, Education Department as well as the Office of Personnel Management.
US District Judge Deborah Boardman decided that the administration likely violated federal law by giving DOGE ‘seemingly unfettered access’ to those departments records.
‘They trusted the federal government to safeguard their information. That public trust likely has been breached,’ wrote Boardman.
