At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February, Musk pranced around on stage with a chain saw he received from Argentina‘s President Javier Milei. The chain saw became a political lightning rod after Musk declared it was "the chainsaw for bureaucracy."

Elon Musk regrets wielding a chainsaw at CPAC, admitting it \"lacked empathy.\" He received the chainsaw from Argentine President Javier Milei, symboliz

Elon Musk said that wielding a chainsaw at CPAC "lacked empathy." "Milei gave me the chainsaw backstage and I ran with it," he wrote on X. Musk is now in a deadlock with Trump over the president's big spending bill. Elon Musk said that brandishing a chainsaw onstage in February probably wasn't such a good idea.