https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5071134-maggie-haberman-donald-trump-elon-musk/
The New York Times's Maggie Haberman said President-elect Trump is complaining that tech billionaire Elon Musk is "around a lot."
"Trump does complain a bit to people about how Musk is around a lot," Haberman said on Monday's episode of the "On with Kara Swisher" podcast, as highlighted by Mediaite.
"Privately, Musk — Jonathan Swan and I reported recently with Ryan Mac that Musk has been staying at this cottage at Mar-a-Lago," she added.
He's living in DDR's backyard
"So, he really parked himself in Trump's face," Haberman said on the podcast. "But what that looks like, Kara, when Trump becomes president, I don't know."
In November, Trump said the "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE), which aims to "slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures" and restructure federal agencies, would be headed up by Musk and former GOP presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
DOGE would "provide advice and guidance from outside of government" and work alongside the White House Office of Management and Budget, the president-elect said.
"It will become, potentially, 'The Manhattan Project' of our time," Trump added. "Republican politicians have dreamed about the objectives of 'DOGE' for a very long time."
Haberman told Swisher she doesn't believe Musk "will move into the Lincoln Bedroom" of the White House, "but I do think that at the moment — and again we'll see what this looks like — I think he's going to try to have as much proximity to Trump as possible."
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On the one hand, Elon was probably the singlemost important person in getting Trump elected aside from the cute twink who shot him in July, so Trump does kind of owe him.
On the other hand, Elon is a cute twink now and I want him to suffer.
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Elon got him elected but he doesn't need Elon to rule. He has ~30% of the country permanently in his base and he doesn't need re-election anymore. What does he really need Musk for if not peepee sucking?
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He still needs the party to do well in the midterms if he's going to be able to continue a legislative agenda in the second half of his term.
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Yeah but DDR's primary motivation this time around was having a get out of jail free card for all his court cases. I'm not convinced he's particularly concerned about the midterms or 2028 at this point.
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Nah, trump doesn't have much of a policy preference. He just wants the attention
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Money. Musk has shitloads of it and DDR does not.
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For what? A re-election campaign? How much cash do you think Elon actually has?
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to find opposition campaigns to any politician who opposes him.
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To settle his massive debts to various people you don't want to be in debt to. And Elon has shittons of cash, he literally bought Twitter out of pocket. And Trump's election made him even more obscenely rich.
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Plus Elon is now pretty toxic with his Jeetmaxxing plan, which DDR I'm sure doesn't object to since he gets all his info from other rich guys at Mar A Lago, but if it's a bad call Trump would have no problem axing H1-Bs to stay popular
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I think it's still way too early to tell if the H1-B drama has spilled out from the terminally online crowd. It's possible that it moves the needle in his general base but I could see it not having much effect on the Fox viewing boomer demographic.
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Everyone in tech knows about it and hates it. Techcels do have plenty of experience hands on with H1-B "talent"
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he's also 90 and gets tired easily doesn't need musk bothering him about h1b
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also trump doesn't care about loyalty
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