On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk will speak in a mutual meeting with Sean Hannity, which suggests the White House is trying to dispel the myths that Musk’s new standing within the state is straineding his connection with the chairman.
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Many GOP workers claimed that Musk, in his capacity as president of the Department of Government Ethics, serves as the president’s of post” shield” as he moves to employ his mission, downplaying any tension between the two people.
” The president has put in sing a once-in-a-lifetime, revolutionary change, right? But he has Evan over it as a lightning shaft, and Elon loves it”, one planner claimed. ” He’ll get all the slings and arrows. What Elon does for the president allows the president a lot more wiggle room as these events are erupting, these serious, transformative adjustments. Basically, Elon doing what he’s doing so violently is very useful for the leader.
” But will that sing out without bumps and bruises and, at times, hurt feelings? No. Of course no. It’s not going to get a soft ride”, the planner added.
On the other hand, a small percentage of Democratic strategists who spoke to the , Washington Examiner, believe that Musk has previously abused his standing at the White House and that the president has several options for taking risks like he did with Vivek Ramaswamy, the former DOGE co-chair.
” I think it’s now an issue. Following Musk and Trump’s unexpected Oval Office media conference last week, one GOP strategist told the Washington Examiner,” It becomes question of whether Trump has any energy.” ” I just don’t understand how Trump gets rid of him”.
While Trump remained seated behind the Resolute Desk during the 30-minute question-and-answer session that spanned Trump’s signature ceremony for an executive order putting into effecting what the Department of Government Efficiency is calling its “workforce optimization initiative” ( workforce optimization initiative ) was a continuous stream of reporters during the 30-minute session. Musk’s child was also provide for the trade, and he appeared at particular points to” shush” Trump.
” President Trump’s greatest ability,  , he called it the’ weave’ on Joe Rogan, is this ravenous appetite to join with the media, yet in the face of full-on attacks from the false news”, a subsequent strategist suggested. Does the president just lay back and let him set the tone for the cover and tales if Elon Musk is now the one to answer all the questions? I have a serious question about it.
” But here’s the catch”, that planner continued. The basic “absolutely loves what DOGE is doing correctly now,” the question is,” Especially when that same man is the richest man in the world who helped you get back the White House in the first place, so how do you buy canning the guy at the top back to MAGA?” Will he lose a small amount of voter support if he goes through with it?”
Steve Bannon, the architect of Trump’s 2016 political ascension, used even more forceful words to describe Musk in a Tuesday interview with UnHerd.
” Musk is a parasitic illegal immigrant”, Bannon claimed. ” He wants to impose his freak experiments and play-act as God without any respect for the country’s history, values, or traditions”.
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Whatever the truth of their relationship may be hidden behind, the president and his new lieutenant both claimed in a pre-taped interview with Hannity that their dynamic hasn’t drastically changed.
” Oh, I see it all the time. When asked about alleged efforts to “divorce the president and Musk,” Trump responded when asked by Hannity.
” It’s just so obvious. They’re so bad at it. I once believed they were skilled at it. They actually don’t do it because, he continued,” I don’t think anyone in history has ever received more bad publicity than me,” even though they would never be president if they had done it. ” It’s like the craziest thing”.
The fact that the Washington Examiner‘s strategists were in the interview specifically made available as a preview over the holiday weekend wasn’t lost on them.
One strategist claimed that “it appears as though the president is trying to counteract these” shadow president” rumors by turning to his most trusted prime minister. ” You know what they say. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire”.
Trump and Musk are ostensibly trying to reduce the$ 300 billion that the federal government spends on its 2.4 million employees every year, excluding active-duty military, United States Postal Service personnel, and money for pension programs, after the expiration of Trump’s Day One hiring freeze.
The Office of Personnel Management is introducing a rule to ensure that employees are held to the highest standards of conduct in accordance with last week’s executive order, which directed agency heads to coordinate and consult with DOGE to” shrink the size of the federal workforce and limit hiring to essential positions.” The order exempts personnel and functions critical to national security, public safety, law enforcement, and immigration enforcement.
According to the order,” Agencies will be able to hire no more than one employee for every four employees that depart from federal service,” the order states. ” Agencies will develop plans for significant force reductions and decide which agency components ( or agencies themselves ) may be eliminated or combined because their functions are not mandated by law.”
But Musk and Trump’s 30-minute question-and-answer session with reporters was more noteworthy. While Trump sat largely ignored behind the Resolute Desk as Musk’s child with Grimes, Little X, he was largely ignored by reporters as he was distracted by reporters ‘ questions.  ,
Musk defended DOGE during the discussion, claiming that” the people voted for major government reform and that’s what the people are going to get.” The business owner also acknowledged that he had made mistakes.
” Some of the things that I say will be incorrect and should be corrected”, Musk said, adding of his son,” Gravitas can be difficult sometimes”.
Days later, Musk met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Blair House, across the road from the White House, before Modi’s bilateral meeting with Trump. Trump was questioned about how Musk and Modi met.
” I assume he wants to do business in India”, Trump said.
Another foreign leader made another trip to the White House a week earlier, this time Shigeru Ishiba, the prime minister of Japan. As his aides assessed more of the federal government, the president was repeatedly questioned about Musk and DOGE during a joint press conference intended to highlight Trump’s agreement between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel.
” Democratic lawmakers are really upset that Elon’s engineers have access to Treasury and other systems”, Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked. They are able to access the social security numbers of the citizens and distribute millions of dollars annually. Why does DOGE need all that”?
” Have you directed Elon Musk to review Pentagon spending”? NBC News’s Peter Alexander followed up.
Musk also surpassed Trump’s agreement with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Oracle CTO Larry Ellison, and Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, where the trio agreed to spend at least$ 500 billion to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States under the name Stargate.  ,
Musk, who helped found OpenAI and previously served on its board, undercut the deal, which Trump described as” a resounding declaration of confidence in America’s potential”.
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” They don’t actually have the money”, Musk wrote on his social platform X. ” SoftBank has well under$ 10B secured. I have that on good authority”.
