Sporting a black MAGA hat and with one of his young children happily crawling up his back, co-President Elon Musk played with the White House press pool on Tuesday while Donald Trump gave him free rein in the Oval Office. Musk doubled down on cleaning up waste and cutting federal expenses — especially on regulatory agencies that have an influence on his many businesses. Trump smiled. No one in the room seemed to recognize or notice the hypocrisy.
“People are going to get what they voted for,” Musk explained. Trump sat, smiled and said Musk’s son had a high IQ. “And that’s what democracy is all about,” Musk added, admitting he may have misspoken on a few items on a few occasions. Trump smiled and signed another executive order. Later in the day, it was announced Musk had a tentative agreement to sell $400 million in armored trucks to the government. No one asked about that.
