WASHINGTON ¨C President Donald Trump on Friday rejected the notion that billionaire Elon Musk should be given access to top-secret U.S. plans for a potential military conflict with China, even as he denied a report that such a briefing had been planned to be held at the Pentagon.
¡°We don¡¯t want to have a potential war with China, but I can tell you, if we did, we¡¯re very well equipped to handle it,¡± Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. ¡°But I don¡¯t want to show that to anybody, but certainly you wouldn¡¯t show it to a businessman who is helping us so much.¡±
Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and a part-time government staff member, visited the Pentagon on Friday and met privately with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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