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.

  • 58008@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    8 hours 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
      2·
      1 hour 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.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    42·
    11 hours ago

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

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    1442·
    17 hours ago

    Oligarchy.

    We’re no better than Russia.

    By design.

    We lost the cold war folks.

    • galaskorz@discuss.online
      492·
      16 hours ago

      The Cold War is still going on, the goal is to destroy America from the inside because a frontal assault is impossible.

      • foggy@lemmy.world
        152·
        15 hours ago

        Yep. I saying we’ve lost.

        Not that it isn’t ongoing, we’ve just been position with our pants down, wrists chained to our ankles, bent over a barrel.

            • Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              13 hours ago

              Wonder how duck guns do against drones?

              There are 10ga shotguns designed to shoot high brass loads to lead and take down fast moving waterfowl. Market hunters back in the day also had what were basically shot cannons they used.

              They’d have to be close in from the Ukrainian footage I’ve seen. Some of the drones could have been taken down by shotgun with a good shot.

              Higher drones would require flack, I guess.

        • ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol
          2·
          15 hours ago

          Eh, to have a constitutional convention, think we need things to collapse first :\ unfortunately. The powers that be are too entrenched.

          Edit: does that make me an accelerationist? Absolutely yes lol

          • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            You think billionaires and their private armies and vast disinformation networks won’t come up with even more control from a constitutional convention or violent revolution? Fucking delusional.

    • minnow@lemmy.world
      191·
      15 hours ago

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

      Which is much worse (imo)

      • Zero22xx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        11 hours ago

        And willingly. I might be unfairly judging because I’m a non-American that has been watching this unfold from the outside. But this has been no master plan. There’s been no deception or trickery. These people have repeatedly and loudly told us all what they’re about. But Donald Trump could say “Hannibal Lector is a fine man” after half an hour of shuffling around onstage to golden oldies and his supporters were like “my hero! 😍”

        Long before they were trying to ‘protect the kids’ from trans people, they were trying to ‘protect the kids’ from metal and punk and rap and calling everything satanic. But all along, we all knew that they were raging hypocrites that campaign for things like child marriage while claiming to actually give a shit about children.

        The way I see it, not a single person over say 25 has the excuse of not knowing or not remembering. They don’t get to use the “we were tricked” line later on. In fact, no one with the ability to read does. Southern Republican states have a global reputation for being full of kiddie fiddling preachers and politicians, for being run like 3rd world countries and for being incestuous motherfuckers. This is known. And this is why I’m going to press X to doubt wherever anyone tries to tell me that they thought the price of eggs would improve.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      19·
      18 hours 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
        9·
        17 hours 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
          4·
          16 hours ago

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

  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
    9·
    13 hours ago

    I would say they should block the gaming ports on the network, but Musk doesn’t really play games anyway.

    • GenosseFlosse@feddit.org
      1·
      12 hours ago

      The internet should trick him into playing a well know AAA brand game that only gets negative reviews from serious gamers, such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Lord of the Rings: Gollum, Overwatch 2 etc.