Speculation of Tesla CEO’s possible departure comes as his influence in the administration appears to wane
Elon Musk is reportedly set to leave his government role because he’s tired of the what he sees as a litany of vicious and unethical attacks from the left, according to a report from The Washington Post.
It remains unclear when Musk will depart as head of DOGE; his special government employee status will expire at the end of next month. A person familiar with his thinking told The Post that Musk thinks that his work at DOGE won’t be diminished because of his departure, noting that staffers have already established themselves across a slew of federal agencies.
But speculation of Musk’s possible departure comes as his influence in the administration appears to wane. The New York Times reported last week that the acting commissioner of the IRS was being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained that Musk had his preferred candidate installed without Bessent’s support. Musk has also annoyed other cabinet members by failing to coordinate with them in cost-cutting moves.
I hope that Musk leaves politics in a wooden box.
He’s a vampire so only if he leaves during the daytime.
I don’t want to wait until he’s in a box. I want him to leave politics now.
Does he need help packing his shit?
They like to flout the law in real time because they know there are no real consequences, but Musk still doesn’t want to leave an opening for a federal or state DA to sue him for financial disclosure and conflict of interest, if only to avoid the PR scandals from discovery.
He’s probably going to ‘officially’ bow out, but maintain a totally-not-suspicious amount of digital communications with the army of fuckup loyalists he installed.
You know, just like that time the fuckup in chief relinquished control of his extraordinary number of conflicts of interest.
We should totally all agree that we will leave Musk alone and start treating him nicely if he leaves politics wink wink nudge nudge
BYEEEEEE!
I can’t wait to check TSLA stock tomorrow morning
It’s up, despite them completely shitting the bed on earnings. We’ll see if it stays that way. Having traded stocks as a hobby, the market can be stupidly irrational sometimes. I believe it’s up because he said he was going to distance himself from doge a bit, and do more for Tesla. Imo the damage is done, and he has done irreparable harm to the brand. Working less days for Doge doesn’t change the fact that he founded Doge and pissed a lot of potential customers off in the process.
This is just posturing to make people feel like we’re not speed running towards fascism. I doubt that there will be any slow down behind the scenes
Consequences? Me? But I’m rich and cool!
Politics is a form of negotiation with other elements of leadership to make a nation’s major policy decisions.
Musk, you never DID get involved in politics. You hired a private army and got involved in criminal intimidation.
Keep up the bullying, it’s working.
Even the hat in that picture is looking to escape that douce.
He should just focus on making rockets fly and cars self-drive.
“Elon Musk is reportedly set to leave his government role because he’s tired of the what he sees as a litany of vicious and unethical attacks from the left…”
OR…hear me out…Trump is sick of him and wants him gone (because two egos that large cannot coexist in the same space indefinitely) and this is the cover story.
OR…Elon has already accomplished 99.9% of what he wanted by gaining access to all the data he wanted and further embedding SpaceX, Starlink, etc., into government contracts.
OR…some mix of all of the above.
Fuck this guy forever.
I don’t think he will. I think he’s trying to get people to sympathize with him.
Please don’t take my last bit of hope with your realism
Not going to change my mind. He’s for Donald… I’m against him.
