While taking part in a CNN panel on Saturday morning, a former aide to Donald Trump during his first term claimed Elon Musk is now hurting her former boss and his time as a constant presence in the Oval Office may be coming to an end.
That led another conservative guest on CNN's "Table for Five" to chime in and point out the clock is already ticking on the billionaire as he is not officially a federal employee.
Speaking with host Abby Phillip, ex-Trump White House adviser Alyssa Farah Griffin claimed Musk's cratering approval numbers in polls are starting to rub off on the president which will lead him to putting distance between himself and the increasingly embattled billionaire.
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Melik Abdul, a member of the Black Americans for Trump Coalition, jumped in with, "I did want to say, to just piggyback off of what Alyssa was saying, is that –– and I've also said that Elon Musk would be a problem, not just for Donald Trump, though, but for the Republican Party –– and I think that we're seeing this now, and this isn't the first set of polls that have shown that Elon Musk's popularity is going down."
"Can I just say just quickly, just because Alyssa, you talked about he won't be around long?" he told the panel. "I just want to remind everybody that as a special government employee, he {Musk] has 130 days to serve within a calendar year. I've said many times before, I think that after the 130 days, Elon Musk will be gone," he continued.
"It's a convenient out, right?" Legal affairs journalist Jay Michaelson interjected. "We know that Trump doesn't care a lot about the niceties of the law. He could just go over it if he wants, but I agree this is a perfect way for him to get him out."
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