Speculation of Tesla CEO’s possible departure comes as his influence in the administration appears to wane

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.

  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    2 hours ago

    He is the richest man in the world. He has every resource available to him. He constantly punches down. He doesn’t deserve any sympathy.

      • ziggurat@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 hour ago

        He tried, but he colflated a person on the leaderboard of a video game with a likeable personality

        (No offense to likeable people on leaderboards)

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        I often wonder what the world would be like right now, if he’d simply taken it on the chin, congratulated that cave diver on rescuing those Thai kids, and went about his day, rather than jumping right into calling him a paedophile and sinking into ever further nutbaggery.

        • forrgott@lemm.ee
          3·
          1 hour ago

          Wouldn’t have changed at all.

          That event didn’t change him at all, for fuck sake

  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    23·
    2 hours ago

    And it has nothing to do with the expiry on the special appointment coming up where Trump will either have to make him a real federal employee with all the legal exposure that confers or let him go.

    As others have pointed out, he’s already compromised systems, downloaded what data he could for Peter Thiel/Palantir, broken those organizations to the furthest extent he is able, and likely will have continued access to the data through illegal means in the future for himself/his handlers.

    He’s not ‘leaving politics’ because those mean liberals, he’s leaving because as a useful idiot, he’s fulfilled his use and maybe realized he was being used as an idiot, but likely not.

    • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com
      31·
      1 hour ago

      Trump can do whatever he wants. The Supreme Court said so, Congress won’t complain, and he has already completed the first round of purges of the executive branch.

      He could declare a horse his co-consul and the only downside would be some snarky mentions in some histories written by the senatorial classes.

  • arkanoid@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    31 minutes ago

    “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.

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 hours ago

    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.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    24·
    3 hours ago

    Too late buddy, you will never extricate yourself from what you’ve done here and it will haunt you for the rest of your miserable life.

  • Bieren@lemmy.world
    1·
    43 minutes ago

    Like that will save him. He has always been a dickbag and will always be one. Just took a lot of people way too long to realize it.