Elon Musk might be the world’s richest man, but he “puts the country long before” his companies, President-elect Donald Trump insisted in his interview for Time magazine’s 2024 “Person of the Year” cover story.

“He considers this to be his most important project, and he wanted to do it,” Trump said of Musk, who with Ohio businessman Vivek Ramaswamy is running his non-governmental Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) efforts to propose changes in government spending and bureaucracy.

“I think he’s one of the very few people that would have the credibility to do it, but he puts the country before, and I’ve seen it, before he puts his company,” Trump said.

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