As if the billionaire megadonor doesn’t already have enough access to Donald Trump, Musk is reportedly poised to receive office space near the West Wing.

Summary

Elon Musk, a Republican megadonor and close Trump ally, is reportedly set to have office space in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the West Wing.

Musk is expected to head the “Department of Government Efficiency,” aiming to reduce federal spending under Trump.

Critics question Musk’s influence, noting his frequent presence at key Trump meetings and events.

This move, if confirmed, would grant Musk continued access to Trump post-inauguration, sparking debate about the billionaire’s role in the administration despite holding no official government position.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    1872·
    23 days ago

    Oligarchy.

    We’re no better than Russia.

    By design.

    We lost the cold war folks.

    • minnow@lemmy.world
      261·
      23 days ago

      The cold war was against the Soviets. We’re losing to fascists.

      Which is much worse (imo)

    • Critical_Thinker@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      23 days ago

      We’re no better than Russia.

      Gulag for you, comrade.

      Maybe the US needs more political prisoners so we can be up to par from the minority parties. The hatred is almost there amongst the loyalists to the billionaire elite. Just check out a fox news comments section, they’d love to shoot some democrats up. They don’t even consider them human anymore.

      I can’t believe how mass media is turning people into monsters who cheer for the death of hard working working class families while the billionaires get bigger and bigger handouts from tax dollars.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      26·
      24 days ago

      That door has been open a while, he’s just the biggest one and in the latest tradition the quiet part is being said out loud now. More validation of the real message of “Soylent Green”, where a society degrades to the point where even the most outrageous actions get at best a shrug from the apathetic public.

      • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        23 days ago

        Surely they are playing with fire now, right? The French Revolution happened in part because the oligarchy became so brazen about things.

        • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
          8·
          23 days ago

          We will find out when these idiots start the second great depression. When 400 million people can’t eat shit gets real.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    77·
    23 days ago

    Waitaminute… Isn’t he going into the tesla office every day? I thought employees couldn’t be productive without being in the office!

    • Critical_Thinker@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      23 days ago

      Come on, there’s the press releases and public relations and then there’s reality.

      The reality is that businesses want employees to leave so they can avoid paying severance and because the banks will give them preferential rates for utilizing office space, keeping commercial properties artificially inflated despite major changes in the perception and reality about how work can be performed.

      It’s easy to downsize at very large companies, it just piles on more work for those that remain. During booming times like most tech companies had in the pandemic they hired like gangbusters at the behest of middle management, now it’s austerity time so they can focus on massive profits while corporate taxes are at an excessive temporary low.

  • 58008@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    23 days ago

    Not that I would ever condone or encourage such abhorrent and inexcusable behaviour, but it would seem like if anyone in US politics is begging for a bullet, it’s Musk. Even more so than Trump or his cabinet of monstrosities. Musk is uniquely poised to catch a round in the dome. And it will probably be a MAGA lunatic that does it.

    • Deway@lemmy.world
      17·
      23 days ago

      Musk is a bigger problem for the world as a whole than Trump is. So yeah, I still don’t get why it hasn’t happened yet.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
    211·
    24 days ago

    This twerp must have some absolutely devastating dirt on Trumpy boy. I’m coming to the conclusion that there’s no other explanation. It can’t possibly just be money; Trump has tons of other rich donors. What I’m struggling to predict, though, is just what he could possibly have to hold over Trump’s head that’s worse than selling classified documents, misusing campaign funds, trying to incite an insurrection, or failing to pay his hookers.

    • andyburke@fedia.io
      42·
      24 days ago

      It’s not like this. This is conspiratorial thinking.

      These people are just … weirdos. This is how weirdos are friends: transactionally, with little common ground. Trump feels like he has something to offer a friend that friend, even though he’s richer, can’t.

      It’s all fucking base and stupid and nowhere near the ideals we are supposed to aspire to as a nation.

    • Supervisor194@lemmy.world
      5·
      23 days ago

      They are both beholden to Putin, very likely afraid for their lives and rightfully so. Putin is a billionaire but he also has a state apparatus with global reach behind him that he is intimately familiar with. He has demonstrated repeatedly over the years that he is willing and able to use that apparatus to… make people fall out of windows, etc. And all of this doesn’t even consider the possibility of kompromat - these are all deeply bad people.

      I believe Putin is the real mastermind behind everything that is going on and also that he has realized that Trump is of limited value to him in the White House. Trump’s cult gets him in, but he had four years already and really didn’t make a lot of inroads (not to mention his visibly declining health).

      So in my opinion, this is Putin shuttling in someone who can be more useful to him. The canary in the coal mine for whether or not this is true will be to see if the infighting everyone is breathlessly predicting ever materializes. I predict it will not. Elon Musk will not end up like Anthony Scaramucci.