REPORTER: “Are you going to deport Elon Musk?”

TRUMP: “We’ll have to take a look. We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? The monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies.”

However, Musk responds to the threat read: “So tempting to escalate this. So, so tempting. But I will refrain for now.”