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Mega billionaire Elon Musk, in a friendly interview with his aide and conservative influencer Katie Miller, said his efforts leading the Department of Government Efficiency were only “somewhat successful” and he would not do it over again.

The Tesla and SpaceX chief executive, who also owns the social media platform X, still broadly defended President Trump’s controversial pop-up agency that Musk left in the spring before it shuttered officially last month. Yet Musk bemoaned how difficult it is to remake the federal government quickly, and he acknowledged how much his businesses suffered because of his DOGE work and its lack of popularity.

“We were a little bit successful. We were somewhat successful,” he told Miller, who once worked as a DOGE spokeswoman charged with selling the agency’s work to the public.

When Miller pressed Musk on whether he would do it all over again, he said: “I don’t think so. … Instead of doing DOGE, I would have, basically … worked on my companies.”

Almost wistfully, Musk added, “They wouldn’t have been burning the cars” — a reference to consumer protests against Tesla.

Still, things certainly have turned up for Musk since his departure from Trump’s administration. Tesla shareholders approved a pay package that could make Musk the world’s first trillionaire.

Musk was speaking as a guest on the “Katie Miller Podcast,” which Miller, who is married to top Trump advisor Stephen Miller, launched after leaving government employment to work for Musk in the private sector. The two sat in chairs facing each other for a conversation that lasted more than 50 minutes and spanned topics from DOGE to Musk’s thoughts on AI, social media, conspiracy theories and fashion.

Miller did not press Musk on the inner workings of DOGE and the controversial manner in which it took over federal agencies and data systems.

Musk credited the agency with saving as much as $200 billion annually in “zombie payments” that he said can be avoided with better automated systems and coding for federal payouts. But that number is dwarfed by Musk’s ambitious promises at one time that an efficiency commission could measure savings in the trillions.

Barrow writes for the Associated Press.

OZZY Osbourne was warned by doctors that he wouldn’t survive his farewell gig before his tragic death.

The rocker went ahead with his farewell gig in Birmingham back in the summer, despite the advice from his doctors at the time, Sharon has now revealed.

In an emotional interview with her friend Piers Morgan on his Uncensored show, which will drop on Wednesday, Sharon opened up about the warnings from doctors that Ozzy would not survive the event.

Ozzy, 76, sadly passed away on July 22, with the cause of death later revealed to be a cardiac arrest.

Sharon insists that the rocker fully understood he was at the end of his life when he performed for the final time in Birmingham on July 5 – just days before his death.

Speaking to Piers on Uncensored, Sharon recalled how in the back of his mind, Ozzy knew the gig would be his final chapter.

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Explaining to Piers, Sharon said: “Very much so, because he’d been so ill this year, terribly, terribly ill. 

“And when we came to England and we were meeting with new doctors here, a new medical team for him, the main doctor said to him, ‘If you do this show, that’s it. You’re not going to get through it.’ 

“But we just sat there, and he said, I’m doing it. I want to do it, and I’m doing it. 

“He knew his body was failing him. He was in so much pain, so much pain.

“And I mean, you know, he had pneumonia three times this year. He’d had sepsis. 

“That’s what really, really destroyed him.

“He was on these shots of antibiotics. It used to take 20 minutes for the shot to go in, and he had that twice a day, and it kills everything in you, the Good, the Bad, everything, so much antibiotics, and he just couldn’t get over that. He just couldn’t.”

Asked by Piers, a close friend of the family, how he managed to muster the strength to perform – albeit in a specially made throne because he was no longer able to stand – she adds: “He just wanted it so bad to say thank you to everyone. And I think he honestly did know that, he, he was done.

“That was his time. He was so happy afterwards.

“He kept looking at the papers, and he goes to me, ‘I never knew so many people liked me,’ but that was the way he was. 

“I mean, he knew he was famous, but not the amount that people loved him. It’s a whole different thing, and he was just so happy, so so happy. 

“And for two weeks he was, you know, really, like every day was sunshine for him.

“Really, really happy, yeah, so happy, happier than we’d seen him in seven years.”

Watch the full interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored on YouTube.