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Musk appears with black eye at White House farewell - as Trump says he's 'not really leaving'
Elon Musk has formally left his role in Donald Trump's administration.
Mr Musk sported a black eye at a press conference with Mr Trump in which the president confirmed the tech billionaire's expected departure on Friday. The billionaire owner of Tesla, SpaceX, and X said his five-year-old son X Æ A-12, or X for short, was responsible for the bruising.
"I was horsing around with my son... I said 'go ahead and punch me in the face', and he did," Mr Musk told reporters in the Oval Office.
"It turns out a five-year-old can punch, actually. I didn't really feel much at the time." At the press conference, Mr Trump thanked Mr Musk "for his incredible service" with his work for his help setting up and running the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, and suggested he would continue to be "back and forth".
The US president handed Mr Musk a golden key in a White House-branded box, which he described as a "special present". "Elon gave an incredible service.
[There is] nobody like him. And he had to go through the slings and the arrows, which is a shame, because he is an incredible patriot," Mr Trump said.
"Some of the media organisations in this room are the slingers," Mr Musk said when asked about the "slings and arrows" in an apparent dig at The New York Times. The US president praised Mr Musk as "one of the greatest business leaders and innovators the world has ever produced.
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