Elon Musk has said that reports of him quitting DOGE – a claim put out yesterday by Politico – are “fake news” as officials say he’s going nowhere until his “incredible” work is finished. The Mail has more.
The White House is furiously pushing back against an explosive report that First Buddy Elon Musk will be leaving the Department of Government Efficiency “in the coming weeks”.
Citing four anonymous “Trump insiders”, the Politico website wrote that President Donald Trump and Musk had “decided” that the 53 year-old billionaire entrepreneur will soon “be stepping back” to take on a “supporting role” and returning to the private sector to lead his businesses.
The article hit official Washington like a ton of bricks – as it suggested that a long-anticipated rift had finally opened between Trump and the eccentric genius who bankrolled the President’s 2024 campaign to the tune of $288 billion [this figure must be an error as it’s unrealistically high: Musk is only worth $345 billion].
The report leaned heavily on sources who said that Musk had become an “unpredictable, unmanageable force” who incites political turmoil and clashes within Trump’s inner circle – including with White House enforcer and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, a.k.a. the ‘Ice Maiden’.
Indeed, there is no doubt that Musk’s unconventional approach to public relations and his machete-style reform of the federal bureaucracy has ruffled feathers in DC.
But sources close to the administration now tell the Daily Mail that the report is “garbage” and “fake news”, adding that Trump and Musk have reached no such decision and there are no plans for the billionaire to leave before his work with DOGE is done.
These sentiments were reflected in a post from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on X: “This ‘scoop’ is garbage. Elon Musk and President Trump have both *publicly* stated that Elon will depart from public service as a special Government employee when his incredible work at DOGE is complete.”
Musk himself retweeted Leavitt’s message and, with his characteristic off-handedness, said: “Yeah, fake news.”
Even the billionaire’s father, Errol Musk, reached by the Daily Mail in South Africa, leapt into the fray: “Elon will never walk away from DOGE until his commitment is over. Everything they are claiming about Elon leaving DOGE has been made up and is not true.”
But this Politico report – and the vehemence with which the White House and allies have responded – has fanned even more wild speculation in political circles, as many suggested that Musk had been forced out of the administration by rivals. And insiders conceded that there are pockets of discontent in the administration over Musk’s role.
Turns out you can’t believe what you read in Politico.
Worth reading in full.
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Isn’t accommodating these difficult to house prisoners the very reason sex case wings exist in men’s jails?
Lets not be coy here, they think it’s a good idea for a prisoner who probably still has a working todger to be kept confined with a bunch of real females?
What do you think will be the end result, apart from the illicit sh@gging….. there will be a whole lot of drama and jealousies and fights as humans do what they do, and a whole bunch of disruption. Even the armed forces have trouble with, errm, consorting on the job, so to speak, and they have careers to consider!
Maybe they should check that female prisoners are happy having a violent sex offender in the cell next to them.
Once again, I agree with the sentiment of this post, for personal reasons. I mean it’s ludicrous.
But isn’t this just more distraction politics? outrage on the right, outage on the left….meanwhile they, THEY, are screwing all of us. Divide and conquer. Distract and Act.
We are being played if we focus on what they want us to focus on.
The game, the REAL game, is chaos and control.
Blimey! That girl in the picture has a big cokc!
Has there ever been a more disgusting government in the UK than this insidious SNP? This is the government that wanted to spy on all our children with the Named Person Scheme, that was eventually declared illegal. This is the government that wanted to pour concrete in gas wells. This is the government that is being investigated for stealing it’s own Independence money and where Sturgeons husband is being investigated for having a 95 grand Jaguar and formerly expensive Motor Home in his mother’s drive in Dunfermilne. This is the government that will let men into our daughters’ toilets and changing rooms. —-I have never voted Labour but with tories in a meltdown I might be prepared to help bring these SNP parasites down and be rid of them by voting Labour tactically next year.
Since the SPS seems to want to overturn recent decisions made by the Scottish Parliament I expect to see officials charged with sedition.
I think letting them wear a frock and lippy and putting them where they belong – in a male prison – will do far more to help them with their gender identity.
Perhaps they should all be called Roger ….. to help the other prisoners.
This can only work if the authorities get snippy, snippy with the old forceps and scalpel before admitting the criminal to the jail.