Tesla CEO and Trump’s number one lil’ guy, Elon Musk, wants to know why it’s taking Boeing so long to convert two 747s into the next Air Force One jets. He stopped by operations for his competitor earlier this week to see what’s what.

Elon Musk is working with Boeing on behalf of President Donald Trump in order to speed up replacements for the president’s planes, known as Air Force One, that are over budget and behind schedule.

While Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore’s situation is unusual, their return trip will be pretty routine, as they were already slated to fly home on a SpaceX capsule as part of a scheduled crew rotation.

"NASA and SpaceX are expeditiously working to safely return the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore as soon as practical, while also preparing for the launch of Crew-10 to complete a handover between expeditions," Cheryl Warner, NASA's news chief at the agency's headquarters, said in a statement to reporters.

Elon Musk took to X to state President Trump has asked for the quick return of two NASA astronauts who flew to space in June.

Despite the statement from President Trump, NASA had already scheduled the astronauts' return for late March or April.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk said President Trump has asked the company to bring home the two NASA astronauts from Boeing’s Starliner mission on board the ISS “as soon as possible.”

In a post on X Tuesday, Musk blamed former president Biden and his administration for the delay in the astronauts' return.

In 2019, during his first presidency, Trump announced the new Air Force Ones would be donned in red, white and blue. But the Air Force said soon after that wouldn't happen for technical reasons.

On Wednesday, a plane with 60 passengers and four crew members onboard had a midair collision with a Black Hawk Army helicopter.

The four American astronauts aboard the ISS, including the Boeing Starliner crew, spoke to USA TODAY in an exclusive interview Tuesday.