The Trump administration and the Republican Party have finally caught up to the rest of us on Elon Musk and realized that, actually, this guy is the worst. Musk bought his way into the 2024 presidential race, spending more than $290 million on putting Trump back in the White House. For this, he was repaid by being put in charge of DOGE and proceeded to tear apart critical national infrastructure and render thousands of people unemployed.
Musk was in hog’s heaven, becoming a fixture at Mar-A-Lago and once cringingly billing himself as the president’s “First Buddy”. Now, after having to actually spend time in his company, Trump and the Republicans have decided that it’s time to ghost.
Politico reports that on Truth Social, Trump hasn’t mentioned him in over a month, Tesla and Musk mentions have vanished from fundraising emails, and he’s no longer name-dropped in White House briefings. As per an anonymous GOP source speaking to Politico, they’re glad to see them back of him.
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Trump no longer mentions Musk on social media, Republican insiders say he's "done", – Politico
Musk's political star has fallen. "He's done. His approval ratings are terrible. People hate him," one Republican Party official said. pic.twitter.com/dv9wgbCQxy
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He’s finished, done, gone. He polls terrible. People hate him”, the source said, pointing out that he may have single-handedly lost the Wisconsin Supreme Court election with his inane cheese-hat wearing antics. “He’d go to Wisconsin thinking he can buy people’s votes, wear the cheese hat, act like a 9-year-old. … It doesn’t work. It’s offensive to people.”
Musk’s downfall
Musk may still be the richest man in the world, but his problems are rapidly stacking up. Tesla’s image as a reliable car maker is in tatters after the Cybertruck fiasco, which is now looking like one of the most boneheaded automotive industry releases of all time, Musk has made buying the car a political hot potato, and the company was recently forced to deny a convincing Wall Street Journal story that they’re actively searching for a new CEO.
Things aren’t looking good over at X and xAI either. Trust in the popular Grok AI assistant took a massive hit when an unnamed employee with high-level access to Grok code modified the bot to become obsessed with the South African conspiracy of “white genocide”, causing it to begin spouting off about the topic in all queries. I mean, let’s face it, you don’t need to be Sherlock Holmes to suspect who this “unnamed employee” might be.
This isn’t the end of Musk. He remains the richest person in the world and continues to wield an obscene amount of political power for an unelected individual. But, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, this is not the end of Musk. It is not even the beginning of the end of Musk. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
