Donald Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick revealed some inside deets about Elon Musk, the richest person of the world as he revealed their first meeting before the election and long before the Department of Government Efficiency came into being. In the All-in podcast, Lutnick revealed that he was certain to work with Elon Musk for planning on how to cut government spending once Donald Trump wins the election. His first meeting was scheduled on October 14 which was a big day for Elon as SpaceX made history by catching a rocket on landing.
Revealing the story of their first meeting, Lutnick said he flew down to see Elon Musk with his son, and watched the rocket but then Elon Musk went dark as Elon went to take a nap. “He was up all night doing the engineering and he went to sleep,” Lutnick said.
After waking up, Elon asked Lutnick to meet him in his house. “So his house is 1,200 square feet. It’s got the furniture in it that I had when I graduated from college. And I am not kidding. It’s a 1,200 square feet house and it has plastic chairs,” Lutnick said.
Then they discussed how much they were able to cut. “I say, I know how to cut 50. And he says I want to cut 80. I said I know how to do 50. He goes, are you with me or against me? I go, I know how to legally do it. What do you have? And my son says it was like two alpha dogs just, like, fighting with each other for the first half hour,” Lutnick said. And then Musk went to walk his four-year-old son X leaving Lutnick wondering whether the meeting ended and whether it was all good. But when Elon Musk returned from the walk, Lutnick said, he was enthusiastic about their half-an-hour fight and then they got into the planning part.
