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When Elon Musk said he loved Donald Trump “as much as a heterosexual man can love another,” the ematic effect was widespread. Trump is one of the few people left in Washington DC, who likes to have musk. However, after having given Musk more power than any private figure in the history of the United States, the president is seeing his benefactor to become an albatros. The question is how Trump will get rid of Musk, not yes.
The price of having it as co-scoring is already high. The New York Times reported how Trump cut Musk’s wings at a heated cabinet meeting last week. Cabinet chiefs, instead of the so -called Efficiency Department of the Musk government, would take care of their own hiring and shot, Trump said. Until then, his White House had been remarkably free of leaks, in contrast to his first mandate. But it seems that the upper staff is anxious to see the back of the oligarch that pushes the chainsaw. The confrontation had been established with the aim of accelerating that day.
A measure of Musk’s concern for his waning star is that his visit to Mar-A-Lago last weekend was not originally scheduled, they say insiders. In addition, Musk has tried to channel more at Trump’s political action committees and have been rejected. It is not known that Trump rejects the money. But it seems that Musk was buying his prolonged stay. Its position is falling as fast as the price of Tesla shares. Trump’s approval index has remained stable. With signs of an upcoming “Trump recession”, musk can still be a useful lightning rod.
But that is the scope of its rise. Its influence is mainly negative. There is no republican legislator or Trump director who is not terrified by the power of the musk. A $ 50mn check to finance a main challenge could end the career of a senator: $ 10mn for a legislator. The X of Musk, which is the informal state transmission arm of Maga, could also destroy the career of a cabinet member. The officials now issue press releases for the first time in X. The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced plans to resort to USAID in X.
It seems that there is nothing that Musk will not say to defame the on their way. This has been evident since he accused a besieged caver of being a pedophile a few years ago. Musk only acts more like him. But his arrangement to Assassing of characters is to interfere with the work of Rubio. Musk recently threatened to activate a collapse on the first line of Ukraine when taking out his Starlink satellite service. After Poland’s Foreign Minister, Radosław Sikorski, Obvied Musk, published: “Be quiet, little man. . . There is no substitute for Starlink. “Poland is one of the few European countries that Trump has said that he would help in case of an attack. An impotent blond was forced to support the musk.
But the cost of keeping it next to Trump is growing. In ignorance of how the federal government works, Musk is only causing damage. This also undermines Russell Vought, head of the White House Administration and Budget Office, which has spent years making plans to deconstruct the administrative state. He was co -author of Project 2025, the Radical Plan of the Heritage Foundation for a second Trump term. The traumatization of the United States civil service will exceed Musk. But Voucht is likely to do it less incompetent. Nor does it share the apparent reluctance of Musk to go after the Pentagon, which is an important source of Federal Musk contracts.
It is tempting to think that Musk has a desire for political death. The recent fall in the net worth of the aspiring Trillonario has also almost eliminated his profits after the elections. But that would be naive. Doge’s access to taxpayers accounts, Social Security records and federal employee data would offer a gold mine for any Titan AI. Musk’s temptation to assume it for its own ends will be great. But that means retaining Trump’s trust. If Musk has any self -knowledge, he will use costumes from now on and keep his offspring out of the oval office. After taking his four -year -old son, X, to the White House last month, experts say Trump asked that the HMS resolved desktop was disinfected. The boy felt at home as his father.
There is also the impact of Musk on Trump’s policy in China. As clients in the United States, Europe and other places reject Tesla and look for alternatives to Spacex, Musk’s commercial dependence in China is growing. Musk’s influence on China’s politics is clear. Trump now sounds almost as selfless in Taiwan’s destiny as in Ukraine. Most of the rest of his team are China Hawks. If Trump turns against China, that will be another sign of descent from Musk.