Elon Musk admits he got carried away working with Donald Trump and stayed in politics for too long. MUSK: "I think I had it going on for too long. A lot of people might disagree with me. I think it was important to elect President Trump to sort of steer things more in the direction of a free market economy, have less bureaucracy ideally. In my sort of simple political platform of wanting safe cities, secure borders, aspirationally sensible spending, you know, the basics, I thought Trump would be better than Kamala basically. But what I should have done, I think, was be more in the background. It was interesting to sort of go around with President Trump and go on Marine One and Air Force One and all that sort of stuff." ISAACSON: "But was that too seductive in a way?" MUSK: "It was a little bit. It was kind of cool because I'm just there in the Oval Office while all these big momentous decisions are being made and sometimes having some impact on what's being done. But I think I should have been more in the background and probably only had it last for a month or two because at that point you've seen most of what there is to see within a month or two." ISAACSON: "You seem to get a bit too intoxicated by it in a way with the chainsaws and all that." MUSK: "I think that's true. I got carried away basically. I ended up leaving I guess sometime in May." ISAACSON: "That was a weird weekend." MUSK: "Yeah, it was." Walter Isaacson: "Tell me about it." MUSK: "No, let's not dig up the... let's let sleeping dogs lie or whatever. Let's not put a spade down in the backyard type of thing. You never know what you're going to find. But anyway, the point is I should have gone back and focused on AI a little sooner than I did."