“Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary mentioned Elon Musk discovered Washington is “an incredibly nasty place” after finishing his tenure as a White Home advisor.

The tech CEO led operations for the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), an company accountable for slashing federal spending and decreasing the federal government’s workforce. 

“I learned a lesson that Elon just learned. No one goes to Washington and returns unscathed. It is an incredibly nasty place,” O’Leary mentioned Friday on Fox Enterprise.

Whereas working alongside President Trump, the Tesla CEO admitted he had “great difficulty” operating a number of corporations and reigning on the helm of DOGE.

Musk noticed the electrical automobile producer’s shares dip and confronted scrutiny from the general public for sunsetting a number of federal companies.

“You need thick skin, and he just got that lesson doled out to him,” O’Leary mentioned of Musk’s time in politics.

“The closer you get to the sun, the more your feathers get burned,” he added. 

Musk not too long ago mentioned DOGE has been handled just like the “whipping boy” for the Trump administration’s failures.

He instructed The Washington Put up, “something bad would happen anywhere, and we would get blamed for it even if we had nothing to do with it.”

In latest days, the tech big has shared numerous posts on the social platform X, slamming Trump’s spending invoice and different federal insurance policies.

He appeared at a press occasion with Trump on the White Home on Friday with a black eye.