The joint interview comes as Trump and Musk continue to implement sweeping cuts across the government. Thousands of federal workers have already been fired after President Trump signed an executive order last week instructing heads of federal departments and agencies to make "large-scale reductions in force.

The Trump-Musk interview was taped Friday, while plenty of other Musk dramas have played out since then, from the exit of a top Social Security official to a woman claiming he fathered the child she had five months ago. A proclaimed free-speech absolutist, Musk on Sunday called for 60 Minutes journalists to get a “long prison sentence.”