At a White House news conference to announce that Boeing had been awarded the contract for a new sophisticated fighter jet, Trump scoffed at a New York Times story on Friday that claimed Elon Musk had gone to the Pentagon Friday morning to be briefed on a China war plan.
Trump said that would never happened and said, in any event, Musk is a patriot and would not want to be briefed on such plans because he has businesses in China.
The president said that Musk visited the Pentagon on Friday morning to discuss reducing costs, which he's been working on through the Department of Government Efficiency.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Musk was there "to talk about efficiencies, to talk about innovations.”
Musk said while leaving the Pentagon that he was ready to do “anything that could be helpful," according to a CNN video. He also refused to answer questions as to whether he received a classified briefing on China as part of the visit.
