Elon Musk says he has not set foot in Washington, D.C. since his role in Trump’s administration came to an end.

“I haven’t been to D.C. since May. That was a hell of a side quest,” Musk said during an interview at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles. The Tesla boss left his position with Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency at the end of May having failed to deliver on his lofty cost-cutting goals and sparking a furious backlash against his own businesses.

“The government is basically unfixable,” Musk, speaking from Palo Alto, lamented in the interview, a recording of which was uploaded on YouTube on Tuesday.

“If you look at our national debt, which is insanely high, the interest payments exceed the War Department budget,” Musk explained. “So, if AI and robots don’t solve

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