- Elon Musk is not just helming multiple companies and carrying out a blitz of disruptive hirings and firings through DOGE, he is also the interlocutor between Boeing and President Donald Trump, who is eagerly awaiting two new jets for Air Force One. Biographer Walter Isaacson has previously outlined Musk’s ability to be highly productive, veering on obsession and belligerence, as “demon mode.”
Elon Musk is adding more irons into an already blazing fire. Beyond heading the Department of Government Efficiency—which has bombarded Washington with breakneck moves to raze parts of the government in a matter of two weeks—and performing CEO duties for SpaceX and Tesla, Musk has another matter to attend to: He has been tasked in part with overseeing the delivery of two new jets for President Donald Trump’s Air Force One.
