‘I’d Be Depressed and Crazy’: Peter Thiel Says He Won’t Have a Role in Second Trump Administration

Billionaire Trump ally Peter Thiel told Piers Morgan he would not have a role in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration Thursday, claiming he would become “depressed and crazy” if he devoted himself full-time to politics.

“Has the president-elect offered you a job yet?” asked Morgan during an interview with Thiel on Piers Morgan Uncensored.

Thiel – a mentor of Vice President-elect JD Vance and an early supporter of Trump in 2016 – replied:

I’m not going to do anything on a full-time basis. You know, one can do things like you know what Elon is doing. You can’t– You can’t go full-time into government if you’ve been in a type of position like I have. It’s just the sort of things you have to be realistic about, what you can and can’t do.

After Morgan pushed, “But is there an Elon-style role?” Thiel said, “It’s just not my area of comparative advantage. I think politics is very important. It’s also– I would find it deeply frustrating. I would go out of my mind if I spent all my time doing about it.”

He concluded, “So I think it’s super important, I enjoy going on your show, thinking about it every now and then. If I spent my whole life thinking about this, man, I’d be depressed and crazy.”

Asked for his approximate net worth, Thiel went on to predict that he was worth “probably more than $10 billion, less than 20.”

Watch above via Piers Morgan Uncensored.