President Donald Trump has surprised many with his continued tolerance of Tesla CEO Elon Musk in his White House despite the fact that his Department of Government Efficiency appears to falling well short of achieving its purported goals, opined Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton.
Parton begins by acknowledging she didn't think that Trump would put up with Musk for long although "as it turns out, Trump has quite liked having the richest man in the world at his beck and call and he even puts up with his precocious little son X, who likes to tell the president to shut up during press conferences.”
She then slammed Trump on giving Musk access to government computers because it allowed the South African native to “take a chainsaw to the executive branch for three months now, causing tremendous chaos and trauma and essentially destroying much of what the American people count on their government to do.”
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The New York Times in a recent report has noted how Musk is not getting anything close to the $1 trillion in government savings that he initially promised when he founded DOGE, and the savings that Musk has claimed appear to be highly dubious substantively.
Reading this Digby Parton surmised, “If DOGE's mission is to cut spending, Musk's doing a terrible job. If its job is to cause misery, it's a rousing success.'
She also thinks Musk may live to regret his decisions given how much his actions have harmed sales at his flagship business.
“He apparently didn't realize that by becoming a right-wing MAGA troll, he would alienate the people who buy his cars," she argued. "There aren't a whole lot of EV buyers in rural America, home to the MAGA base.”