'Not going to own it': Ex-aide predicts Trump running from 'inevitably unpopular' cuts

A former White House aide to Donald Trump believes he doesn't mind sharing the presidency with billionaire benefactor Elon Musk quite as much as outsiders seem to think.

The president has allowed the tech mogul to make recommendations for sweeping cuts to government agencies and the federal workforce, which has prompted comments about Musk serving as co-president, and former Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin told CNN that her spotlight-seeking former boss might not mind that dynamic for now.

"I think some folks are like, this is showing Elon is really the one in charge, not Donald Trump," Griffin said. "What Trump is doing by putting Elon in charge of so much of overseeing the federal government and these massive cuts is he's giving himself distance from when they inevitably become unpopular. These cuts that are made, he is delegating right now. He's not going to own [the cuts] if he wants, he hopes he will not own [them] if people are really mad down the road, when they say, 'Oh, great, we don't have this resource that we once had because of Elon.'"

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"Donald Trump's at his high-water mark, he's the most popular he's ever been, but only 23 percent of Americans want to see Elon Musk have massive control over the government," Griffin added. "He's extraordinarily unpopular, so I actually see it more as there's been scrutiny around DOGE and some of these cuts. There have been some wrong information that's been put out. He brought Elon in and said, you need to answer for it, and you're just going to stand here and take questions until you can. It's kind of vintage Donald Trump. He loves an Oval Office presser, and he loves to kind of catch people off guard and put them on the spot to defend what they're doing."

CNN's John Bergman capped off her point, before moving on to the court challenges to Musk's cuts.

"A little good cop-bad cop action going on," Berman said.

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