Elon Musk admitted Monday night that one of his most infamous stunts while he worked on the DOGE project was a big mistake. The manchild mogul has been in a social media war with Donald Trump over the president’s signature tax-and-spending bill, which Musk called the “biggest debt increase in history.”

Musk publicly walked back one of his most eyebrow-raising political stunts – swinging a golden chainsaw onstage at CPAC.