Elon Musk

You can take the government out of Elon Musk (finally!), but it’s harder to take the Elon Musk out of government. The former Big DOGE has hung up his MAGA hat and bedazzled chainsaw in an official capacity after 130 days—longer than Britney Spears’ 2004 marriage to Jason Alexander; shorter…

ANALYSIS — The Donald Trump-Elon Musk partnership ended much like it began, with plenty of mutual flattery and a little awkwardness — capped off by a surreal Oval Office send-off. The president bid farewell to the tech billionaire on Friday with an hourlong media appearance to mark the end of…

Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars. He’s starting with a tiny Texan town of 500 people — 260 of whom work for SpaceX — and a recent memo suggests the company may be expropriating their land. Suggested Reading CNBC (CMCSA) reports that the town — formerly known as Boca Chica…

For weeks, White House officials and Republican operatives weren’t quite sure when, or if, Elon Musk would actually be leaving the government. Now, many Republicans are already looking to distance themselves from Musk’s team entirely. “Everybody is in a bit of a fucking pinch,” a Republican with knowledge of the…

US President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk (right). Musk was the biggest donor to Trump’s 2024 election campaign. — AFP pic Planning your holiday getaway? Invest RM100 with Versa & grab RM10 FREE to kickstart your travel fund. Use VERSAMM10 now! Friday, 30 May 2025 9:00 PM MYT…

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For this week’s Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. In January, Ezra Klein, the New York Times columnist, spoke on his podcast with Chris Hayes, the MSNBC anchor, about attention, a topic on which Hayes had just written a book. Klein called Donald Trump…

Chris Hayes seemed to enjoy himself on Thursday’s episode of “All In” when he kicked things off by recounting all the ways Elon Musk’s tenure in the Donald Trump administration was “an unmitigated, abject failure.” Hayes ticked off during the opening segment the myriad ways he believes Musk failed, but…

Elon Musk’s time as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is drawing to a close, but the national debt and runaway spending remain virtually unchanged despite the incessant media coverage of the cost-cutting effort. The Tesla CEO’s departure wraps up a government stint marked by mass layoffs and…

It ended, of course, with a tweet. Late on Wednesday evening, Elon Musk announced the official end of his short, traumatic tenure as the head of a made-up agency called the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk’s post on X, the social-media network he owns and had sought to weaponize in…