President Trump said that “a lot” of his executive orders will be codified into law, after he credited Elon Musk with helping get his orders carried out.

“You write a beautiful executive [order] and you sign it and you assume it’s going to be done. But it’s not,” Mr. Trump said in a joint interview with Elon Musk that aired Tuesday on Fox News Channel.

“What he does is he takes it, and with his 100 geniuses, he’s got some very brilliant young people working for him that dress much worse than him … but that gets it done. He’s a leader,” he said. “Yeah, he really, he gets it done.”

Mr. Trump told interviewer Sean Hannity that Mr. Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, “would take that executive order that I’d sign, and he would have those people go to whatever agency it was — ‘When are you doing it? Get it done. Get it done.’ And some guy that maybe didn’t want to do it, all of a sudden he’s signing.”

He also said in the interview that “a lot” of his executive orders will be codified into law by the Republican-majority Congress.

“In the meantime, we have four years. The beauty is, we have four years,” he said. “That’s why I like doing it right at the beginning, because an executive order is great.

Codifying his executive orders into law could be tough because Republicans have a very slim majority in the House, and 60 of 100 senators (Republicans have 53) are needed for most controversial Senate business.

• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.