Elon Musk sports black eye at farewell presser in Oval Office: 'Horsing around with little X'

Elon Musk showed up to the Oval Office connected Friday to bid farewell to his authoritative relation successful the Trump administration, but it wasn’t conscionable the people helium made with DOGE that raised eyebrows.

It was the achromatic 1 nether his close eye. 

Social media lit up during the livestreamed lawsuit arsenic eagle-eyed viewers noticed what appeared to beryllium a caller bruise nether Musk’s eye, prompting speculation astir everything from a gym mishap to a governmental dust-up. 

The assembled property couldn’t defy asking the obvious: "What happened to your eye?"

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk listens arsenic U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters successful the Oval Office of the White House connected May 30, 2025 successful Washington, DC. Musk, who served arsenic an advisor to Trump and led the Department of Government Efficiency, announced helium would permission his relation the Trump medication to refocus connected his businesses.  (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

"Well, I wasn’t anyplace adjacent France," Musk quipped, poking amusive astatine headlines regarding French President Emmanuel Macron, who was caught connected camera being shoved by his woman past week. "I didn’t cognize the archetypal woman of France isn’t a lieutenant."

Then came the existent story.

"No, I conscionable was horsing astir with small X," Musk said, referring to his five-year-old son, X Æ A-Xii. "And I said, ‘Go ahead, punch maine successful the face.’ And helium did. Turns retired adjacent a 5-year-old punching you successful the face… really does this."

President Donald Trump jumped in immediately. "That was X that did that?"

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President Donald Trump, right, and Elon Musk, main enforcement serviceman of Tesla Inc., during a quality league successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Friday. (Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"Yeah," Musk replied.

"X could bash it, if you knew X," Trump said with a grin.

The full exchange, captured during Musk’s Oval Office farewell event, rapidly became the infinitesimal of the day, a lighthearted intermission successful a sendoff marking the extremity of Musk’s 130-day stint arsenic caput of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Tesla CEO Elon Musk listens arsenic President Donald Trump speaks to reporters successful the Oval Office of the White House connected Friday successful Washington, D.C.  (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Musk didn’t fto the achromatic oculus distract from his message.

"This is not the extremity of DOGE," helium told reporters. "Only the beginning."

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According to a May 26 update connected DOGE’s authoritative site, the section racked up implicit $175 cardinal successful savings during Musk’s tenure, mostly done plus sales, canceled contracts, and cracking down connected fraud. That translates to an estimated $1,087 saved per taxpayer.

The White House did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.