If there's one guy you probably don't want to get on the wrong side of, it's the world's richest man. As Elon Musk has shown by gutting whole government departments as head of the Department of Government Efficiency, he's currently wielding some serious power at the White House.
Appointing himself as President Donald Trump's 'First Buddy', Musk has wasted no time putting his feet under the table, and while that table isn't quite the Resolute Desk, there's a reason some are calling him 'President Musk'. With the tech mogul firmly by the side of the POTUS, the pair are trying to remake America in their own image over the next four years.
As part of these sweeping changes, Musk has joined Trump by tearing into CBS's 60 Minutes.
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Posting on its X account, 60 Minutes shared a graphic featuring a quote from former USAID administrator Andrew Natsios. Natsios has disputed claims from the Trump administration and Musk that the government organization is 'beyond repair'. In response, Natsios said: "The most accountable aid agency in the world is USAID."
Musk has reportedly ignored 60 Minutes' request for an interview, but putting the show in his crosshairs, responded by sharing a clip between 60 Minutes' Bill Whitaker and Kamala Harris from 2024.
Sharing the unedited piece, Musk wrote: "60 Minutes are the biggest liars in the world! They engaged in deliberate deception to interfere with the last election. They deserve a long prison sentence."
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The clip is currently part of a lawsuit that Trump brought against CBS in November 2024. He originally asked for $10 billion amid accusations that CBS had edited the interview to give Harris an advantage over him, but has since amended it to $20 billion. Trump claims the network engaged in unfair competition and 'deceptively' edited the interview that cost traffic and viewership to his Trump Media and Technology Group.
An amended filing tries to move the case away from First Amendment grounds and says that free speech arguments don't apply because he suggests CBS has business motivations to improve Harris' standing.
Musk's outburst against CBS comes after Trump himself called for 60 Minutes to be 'terminated'. Calling it election-changing 'stuff', Trump posted on social media and wrote: "They 100% removed Kamala’s horrible election changing answers to questions, and replaced them with completely different, and far better, answers, taken from another part of the interview."
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The vexed POTUS added: "CBS should lose its license, and the cheaters at 60 Minutes should all be thrown out, and this disreputable ‘NEWS’ show should be immediately terminated."
It doesn't seem there's much love lost here, as when discussing Musk's dismantling of USAID, CBS wrote: "It was Musk who called USAID employees 'worms.' In a post, he gloated about feeding the agency into 'the woodchipper.'
"The world's richest man had cut off assistance to the world's poorest families. Musk spent nearly $250 million to get Trump and other Republicans elected. He collects billions in taxpayer dollars for his SpaceX rockets."
The Wall Street Journal recently suggested that CBS could settle, but with it, executives are apparently concerned that it will leave the network open to an 'unusual unicorn' case where they'll face other legal threats.