“It will be fantastic,” the day of the inauguration of Donald Trump triumphed. Four months later, it was almost in a deaf that Elon Musk ends his mission of advising the US president. The latter still wants to mark the occasion: “I give a press conference tomorrow at 1:30 pm (5.30 PM GMT) with Elon Musk, at the Oval office. It will be his last day, but not really, because he will always be with us, to help us reach the end. Elon is great!”, Donald Trump said in his social network on Thursday.
The White House spokesman, Karoline Leavitt, also performed the minimum service: “We thank you for your work. We thank you for launching the Dux”, the name of its commission with government efficiency. We are far from the effusions of the last weeks of the campaign and the first of the second mandate of Donald Trump, when the omnipresent high silhouette of Elon Musk, invariably dressed in black, looked like the shadow of the US president.
More than $ 270 million injected into the Trump campaign
“A star was born,” excites Donald Trump in his victory speech on November 6, speaking of Elon Musk as a “super genius.” On the day of the Republican inauguration, on January 20, the businessman applauded the “return of the king.” “We are going to go quickly, so we will make mistakes, but we will correct these mistakes quickly,” said Tesla and Spacex chief, as Shelled for his new power, in February at the Oval office. Next to him, his boy named X heals his nose under the eye of Donald Trump.
The richest man in the world is played with comfort, expanding the suspicion of conflict of interests and laughs at Europe’s protests when he uses his X platform to push parties and ideas of the extreme right. The US president kept this ally that financed the 2024 campaign to more than 270 million dollars. To support Tesla, whose sales suffer the bustle of his chief neckline, Donald Trump comes to buy a brand of the brand in front of the cameras, during an incredible promotion operation.
A “political ball”
But quite fast, cartoons and analysis of the American press about the “musk president” give way to revelations about their clashes with certain ministers, exasperated by their brutal methods. “He approached his macho mission of Silicon Valley, in a destructive way, and that established public opinion against him,” analyzes Elaine Kamarck, from the Institute of the Brooks Reflection Center. For this expert, the former advisor of Democratic President Bill Clinton, the “coup de grace” came from the defeat on April 1, a conservative candidate in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, for whom Elon Musk had campaigned.
The billionaire is now seen by Donald Trump as a “political ball,” Elaine Kamarck estimates, although according to her “the two men really appreciate.” For his part, Elon Musk said he was “disappointed” on Tuesday by a project of great economic law of the US president, in an interview with the CBS news channel. Also deplored with the Washington Post that the Dux has become “a scapegoat for everything.”
The Native of South Africa has dismantled the entire agencies, attacked international aid and investigation and has pushed the dismissal of thousands of public officials. But the calculation of the economies initiated by their committee, whose operations have been and still opaque, is very difficult. The magazine The Atlantic It has reached the figure of $ 2 billion saved so far. Elon Musk had initially talked to reduce federal expenditure by $ 2,000 billion.
Source: BFM TV
