Elon Musk has exited the White House—physically, at least.

Donald Trump’s “special government employee” is no longer working within the DOGE offices as he prepares his exit from the Trump administration and focuses more on saving his floundering businesses from failure.

“Instead of meeting with him in person, I’m talking to him on the phone, but it’s the same net effect,” White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles told the New York Post in an interview discussing the Trump administration’s first 100 days.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Elon finally found out about the Trump “touch” and how everything Trump touches turns to shit. Elon is not an innocent in this though.

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        It’s incredible just how dumb he is. Like, dude, just throw daddy’s blood money at these startups and let them do their thing. But no, he has to get involved for ego reasons and absolutely wrecks them in the cringiest way possible.

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          I think you could draw some correlation ratio between his companies’ times of success and his involvement. An inverse ratio.

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          That’s what happens when you have exceptionally low self esteem and endless amount of money.