As he dived into the precise location where they were being “printed,” Elon Musk clarified, “Any computer that can just make money out of thin air, that’s magic money.”
The Tesla CEO made his debut appearance at a Trump rally on October 5 of last year, on the stage of the same rural agricultural showground where three months earlier Thomas Matthew Crooks had tried to kill President Donald Trump.
That was during his presidential campaign, of course. He was captivated by his brief appearance in front of the Republican supporters, and he has been a constant presence in the Trump administration ever since.
The 53-year-old, however, is not an elected official, unlike the 78-year-old and almost all outspoken politicians in the United States. Nevertheless, he has been given powers that, prior to November 5, were unthinkable for a member of the public to acquire without being elected.
The new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is led by the CEO of SpaceX and Vivek Ramaswamy, a former Republican presidential candidate and entrepreneur.
Sen. Bill Hagerty, Sen. Ted Cruz, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk pictured together in November (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Their mission is to streamline the government through plans to axe thousands of jobs and drastically reduce the wage bill, and once they have finished their mission, they have vowed to disband the department – setting a completion date of no later than July 4, 2026… Independence Day next year.
Now, in the process of doing so, the mogul-turned-politician has claimed he and his team have came across 14 ‘magic money computers’, he explained to host Ted Cruz, after being invited onto his Verdict which went live yesterday (March 17).
“You told me about magic money computers, among other things,” Cruz remarked.
The father of 14 responded, “You may believe that the numbers you’re shown as a senator are the actual numbers, that government computers all communicate with one another, that they all synchronize, that they add up what funds are going somewhere, and that it’s coherent.” They aren’t.
Musk asserts that 14 “magic money computers” that print digital dollars have been discovered by DOGE (Getty stock).
He continued by saying that the numbers presented to government officials are inaccurate by as much as five to ten percent.
Musk went on to say, “Any computer that can just make money out of thin air, that’s magic money,” before describing how it “just issues payments.”
“They’re mostly at the Treasury, some are at HHS [US Department of Health and Human Services], one or two at State, there’s some at DOD [US Department of Defense], and I think we’ve found 14 magic money computers,” he stated when asked which departments the South African had come upon these computers.