Trump Says He’d Add Musk to Cabinet If Tesla CEO Has Time for It

Former President Donald Trump says he would put Elon Musk in his cabinet if the world’s richest person had the bandwidth, adding that that it was likelier that he’d involve the Tesla Inc. and SpaceX chief executive officer as a federal cost-cutting consultant.

“I’d put him into cabinet, absolutely, but I don’t know how he could do that with all the things he’s got going,” said Trump, speaking in an interview with former Navy Seal Shawn Ryan and praising Musk as a genius. “But he could sort of, as the expression goes, ‘consult’ with the country and give you some very good ideas, like on AI,” he said.