Bill Gates slammed Elon Musk over his leading of Donald Trump’s DOGE, but the Twitter owner has since hit back with a blunt five-word response.

After being sworn in for his second term as US president, Donald Trump swiftly appointed Elon Musk as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

During his 90 days in the role, Musk certainly didn’t waste any time with his task to slash the federal workforce to save money, sending an ultimatum email out to employees – with Trump’s government then ending up having to come back with their tail between their legs to rehire 180 people.

The move didn’t go unnoticed by Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, who went on to accuse him of ‘killing the world’s poorest children’ as a result of shrinking dozens of agencies and departments, including foreign aid initiatives like the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

Speaking of USAID, Musk said back in February it was a ‘criminal organization’ and it was ‘time for it to die.’

Before Musk came in with his axe, USAID reportedly had around 10,000 staff and was the world’s largest single donor of humanitarian aid – spending $40 million across the world in 2023’s fiscal year.

Yet Musk said: “It became apparent that it’s not an apple with a worm it in. What we have is just a ball of worms. You’ve got to basically get rid of the whole thing.”

Gates resolved this as a show of ‘the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children’ – noting to the Financial Times the picture ‘is not a pretty one’.

And Gorklon Rust – aka Elon Musk – has since seemingly responded to Gates, taking to Twitter on May 8.

Apparently Gates is a liar, liar, pants on fire according to Musk (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Netflix)

The post, which is responding to a clip of Gates on CBS Morning making a similar claim, reads: “Gates is a huge liar.”

However, Gates went into more detail in his interview.

He detailed how the cuts DOGE made have led to life-saving medicines and food supplies expiring in warehouses.

Gates explained how this could well lead to countries seeing a surge in diseases such as measles, HIV and polio as a result of not having access to such medicines.

The philanthropist also accused Musk of cancelling grants to aid a hospital in Gaza which prevents women passing HIV on to their newborn babies under a false claim that the US was distributing condoms to Hamas in the region.

He added: “I’d love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money.”

UNILAD has previously reached out to the US government for comment.

Elon Musk has issued a stark warning about the Earth’s potential ‘fate’, claiming Mars could be the human race’s ‘sufficiently self-sustaining’ destiny.

53-year-old Musk has advocated moving human life to Mars since the early 00s, having once tried to buy a Russian rocket to reach the Red Planet.

In 2011, he promised to put a man on Mars within the decade and in 2016, he finally outlined his initial plans for total planet colonization.

At the time, he claimed to envision a large-scale civilization that would allow humanity to become multi-planetary and survive if Earth were ever destroyed.

According to a 2024 report by The New York Times, the Tesla CEO has been fascinated with the planet since reading Isaac Asimov’s 1951 science fiction novel Foundation when he was just 10 years old.

Elon Musk has further explained why he wants human life to operate on Mars (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

As Musk’s controversial stint with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) comes to an end, the businessman has revealed he’s turning his attention to making his Mars movements a reality.

On Monday (May 5), the SpaceX founder sat down with Fox News, where he described his plans as ‘life insurance for life collectively’.

“Eventually, all life on Earth will be destroyed by the sun,” he prophesied.

“The sun is gradually expanding, and so we do at some point need to be a multi-planet civilization because Earth will be incinerated.”

Scientists have previously stated that our Sun will eventually expand to 1,000 times its size and ‘instantly’ destroy Earth.

The Tesla CEO plans to send robots to the Red Planet in 2026 (NASA)

A paper, published in The Astrophysical Journal, outlined that the phenomenon isn’t likely to occur for several billion years.

Musk continued, describing Mars as a ‘sufficiently self-sustaining’ destiny that can grow by itself if so-called ‘resupply ships from Earth stop coming for any reason’.

“Whether that is because civilization died with a bang or a whimper. If the resupply ships are necessary for Mars to survive, then we have not created life insurance.

“We’ve not created life insurance for life collectively. So that’s the key point in the future where [the] destiny of life, as we know it, will forever be affected, is when Mars becomes self-sustaining.”

Earlier this year, the technology titan took to Twitter to reveal a SpaceX Starship would ‘hopefully’ depart for Mars at the end of 2026, carrying Tesla’s humanoid robot called Optimus.

“Starship will hopefully depart for Mars at the end of next year with Optimus explorer robots!,” he wrote.

The robots, unveiled at Tesla’s ‘We, Robot’ event in October 2024, were initially pitched as household helpers capable of performing basic tasks.

“It’ll do anything you want,” Musk said at the showcase. “It can be a teacher, babysit your kids. It can walk your dog, mow your lawn, get the groceries, just be your friend, serve drinks. Whatever you can think of, it will do.”

Speaking about plans to send a rocket to Mars in 2026, Chris Impey, a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona, told Newsweek: “If you take Starship as the vehicle, there were partial successes and partial failures.

Mars is around three years away from Earth (Open Access Government)

“But it’s a long learning curve and so in my estimation, there’d have to be dozens of various Starship demonstrations and test launches before you could send humans on that perilous trip.

“There’s essentially no way humans are going to be on Mars while Trump is in office. It’s just not possible.”

Last month, Musk announced he would be stepping back from his role in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting team, DOGE.

When asked about his departure, Trump said: “We have to, at some point, let him go and do that. We expected to be doing it about this time. I’ll talk to Elon about it.”

Trump also hailed him as a ‘great patriot’, remarking that Tesla would be ‘taken care of’ once he returns to overseeing the business.

Elon Musk has confirmed the arrival of his 12th child with an executive from his company Neuralink.

Between sending rockets into space, getting electric cars on the road and implanting humans with brain chips, you might think that Musk wouldn’t have much time for a personal life.

But if the fact he’s always getting involved in one discussion or another on X wasn’t enough to tell you that’s not the case, then maybe the arrival of his 12th child will do the trick.

Elon Musk shares his children with three women. (Richard Bord/WireImage)

Musk confirmed to Page Six this week that he’d become a dad for the 12th time earlier this year, though he insisted the arrival of the newborn was no secret.

Instead, the family simply decided not to shout it from the rooftops.

Musk responded to reports that he was keeping his latest stint of fatherhood under wraps, saying: “As for ‘secretly fathered,’ that is also false. All our friends and family know.

“Failure to issue a press release, which would be bizarre, does not mean ‘secret.’”

Musk shares his youngest child with Neuralink exec Shivon Zilis, with who he also shares twins Strider and Azure, who arrived in November 2021.

The birth of the new baby, whose name and sex have not yet been revealed, comes after he welcomed three children with singer Grimes, with their third child arriving just one month after Strider and Azure.

Musk has now fathered 12 children. (Riccardo De Luca/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Musk has previously been open about his concern of a population decline, and he spoke further on the subject while discussing his new arrival with Page Six.

He said: “Many countries are already well below replacement rate, and the trend is that almost all will be.

“This is simply a fact, not a ‘debunked theory.’

“2.1 kids is replacement rate, and obviously the world as a whole will soon drop below that point.”

In July last year, Musk told the publication that when it comes to children, he wants to have ‘as many as [he is] able to spend time with and be a good father’.

Musk’s first child was born in 2002 with his first wife Justine Wilson, however the baby sadly died at 10 weeks old of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

Since then, Musk and Wilson went on to welcome twins Vivian Jenna and Griffin through IVF in 2004, and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian followed in 2006.

With Grimes, the Tesla founder shares X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræl and Techno Mechanicus, who also goes by ‘Tau’.

Elon Musk has highlighted comments made by Donald Trump on social media about Taylor Swift ‘no longer’ being ‘hot’.

It’s not like Donald Trump and Elon Musk have anything better to do, right? Not like one is supposed to be running the country and the other overseeing Twitter alongside advising said president of the US.

Instead, it seems the pair have been directing their keyboard warrior fury towards none other than pop star Taylor Swift.

Whether it be in 2018 when Trump said he liked Swift’s music ’25 percent less’ after she showed support for the Democrats, earlier this year when Trump highlighted Swift getting ‘booed out of’ the stadium after a Chiefs game, or yet another jab made about her Super Bowl appearance.

It appears Trump isn’t finished there, now taking aim at Swift’s appearance.

Donald Trump shared another bizarre post about Taylor Swift (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

In a post to Truth Social on May 16, Trump said: “Has anyone noticed that, since I said ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,’ she’s no longer ‘HOT?'”

A Twitter account titled Autism Capital later shared a screenshot of the post to the platform, adding: “Trump woke up today and said ‘You know what it’s been a while since I blasted Taylor Swift.'”

Another account then shared a photograph of Swift performing on stage alongside a ‘Pepe the Frog’ meme edited into the image holding a ruler by Swift’s bottom.

And who should respond? Why, Kekius Maximus of course, AKA Elon Musk – adding a laughing emoji.

And it’s not taken long for people to slam Musk for his response to the post.

People have called out Elon Musk’s response (X/@elonmusk)

One Reddit user accused Musk of ‘body-shaming’ the singer.

A second added: “They need to leave her the f**k alone what’s their obsession with her.”

A third theorized the reason Trump and Musk are so ‘obsessed’ with Swift is because ‘she’s their class peer as a billionaire and they hate it’.

And someone else wrote: “Same guy who threatened to put a baby in her last year? Dude is disgusting.”

Indeed, it’s not the first time Musk has brought up Swift either.

What do you make of that, eh Elon? (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

When Trump went head-to-head with Kamala Harris to become the 47th President of the US, Swift weighed in online with where she’d be casting her vote.

Swift took to Instagram to state her support for Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, explaining that an AI image of her seemingly endorsing Trump had supported her decision for transparency.

She said: “It really conjured up my fears around AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation. It brought me to the conclusion that I need to be very transparent about my actual plans for this election as a voter. The simplest way to combat misinformation is with the truth.”

At the end of the statement, she signed ‘childless cat lady’ below her name, referencing JD Vance’s remarks about prominent Democrats being a ‘bunch of childless cat ladies’.

And in a bizarre turn of events, Musk then took to Twitter to respond: “Fine Taylor … you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life.”

Oh, and Musk hasn’t stopped there either.

Musk and Trump’s weird ‘obsession’ with Swift? She’s been good at shaking it off (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

After being accused of doing a ‘Nazi salute’ while at Trump’s inauguration ceremony, Musk seemingly saw it as yet another opportunity to mention Swift.

Musk later shared a picture of Adolf Hitler performing a Nazi salute alongside a shot of Swift with her arm raised.

On Reddit, a post included footage of Swift from the supposed incident in 2014, showing she’s actually blowing a kiss to the crowd…

UNILAD has contacted representatives of Elon Musk and Taylor Swift for comment.