"Elon Musk Gives Rambling Explanation of DOGE’s Work In Oval Office Address."

I'm laughing at that Mediaite headline. Musk speaks at length, extemporaneously, answering all the questions, managing his little son, keeping up good cheer, and making a lot of us viewers feel energized and optimistic, and Mediaite needs to stress that he rambled.

Remember when we had a President who was tightly scripted and couldn't find his way through the script without repeated stumbling? There was little sense that he knew what he was saying and we were utterly deprived of transparency about who was actually wielding the executive power. 

I ran across that Mediaite article because I'd googled "the woman that walked away with about 30 million," which is something Trump said to Musk as he prompted him to tell us about some "things that your team has found."

Musk said: "Right. Well, we often do find it sort of rather odd that, you know, there are quite a few people in actually here who have ostensibly a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars, but somehow managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position."

He didn't name the woman, but, as even Mediaite admits, it's Samantha Power.

More Musk rambling: "And we’re just curious as to where it came from. Maybe they are very good at investing which case you should take, the investment advice perhaps. But it just seems to be mysteriously that they get wealthier. We don’t know why. Where does it come from? And I think the reality is that they’re getting wealthy at taxpayer expense. That’s that’s the that’s the honest truth of it. So, you know, we’re looking at say, well, we’ll just if you look at say, say Treasury, for example, basic controls that should be in place, that are in place in any company, such as making sure that any given payment has a payment categorization code, that there is a comment field that describes the payment. And that if a payment is on the do not pay list, that you don’t actually pay it. None of those things are true currently. So the reason that departments can’t pass audits is because the payments don’t have a categorization code. It’s like just a massive number of blank checks, just plain not moving. So you can’t reconcile blank checks. You’ve got comment fields that are also blanks. So, you don’t know why the payment was made...."

Ramble on!