Musk bids farewell to Washington – or has he?

HE IS planning to land on Mars and establish a colony of humans there which sounds very fantastic. But that goal of Elon Musk’s might prove to actually be more realistic than his recent and brief expedition to Washington as part of an effort to change the way it operates.

The billionaire head of Tesla and SpaceX, who called himself President Donald Trump’s “first buddy”, is exiting the White House following a press conference he held with the president in the Oval Office on Friday (May 30).

“He’s my friend and he’s done a fantastic job,” President Trump said. “He didn’t need this and we find that the government’s a little nasty on occasion.” He said that the world’s richest man “delivered a colossal change in the old ways of doing business in Washington”.