Elon Musk wants to be Trump’s regulation ‘garbage’ man in new commission | HNGN [Video]

In what could be the successful purchase of potential White House influence, tech mogul Elon Musk has revealed that he is already discussing with Donald Trump the creation of a deregulation “commission” that would shrink federal policing of businesses if Trump is elected president.

And he’s eying a role for himself on what he labels “expediency commission,” he said last week on the “Lex Fridman Podcast.”

“I have discussed with Trump the idea of a government efficiency commission. And I would be willing to be part of that commission,” Musk said.

He complained in the podcast about regulations restricting industry as “being tied down by a million strings like Gulliver.” He added: “There has to be a garbage collection of laws and regulations.”

Musk revealed the discussions when Fridman, a computer scientist podcaster, told him: “I wish you could go into Washington for a week and be the head of …