Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who ran much of Donald Trump's voter outreach operation throughout the 2024 election through his super PAC, is reportedly spending so much time at the president-elect's South Florida country club that some of his aides are beginning to be unsettled by it, reported The Daily Beast on Monday.
This comes after CNN's Kaitlan Collins reported, “While Musk himself is still not expected to take any kind of formal position inside Trump’s administration, given how complicated it would be with his companies, what’s becoming clearer tonight is that he doesn’t really need to ... Elon Musk is having just as much influence from the outside.”
"Other commentators have noted that Musk’s persistent presence at the resort over the past few days appears to be unnerving some members of Trump’s transition team, who have reportedly already come to view the tech tycoon as something of the 'guest who wouldn’t leave' after the party," reported Will Neal, noting that CNN's Kara Swisher has said, “I’ve heard from Trump people, calling me saying, ‘Oh, wow. This is odd’. And it is.”
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Musk began to turn toward the far right around the time that mask mandates and other COVID closures started interfering with Tesla factories. After buying up the Twitter platform, since renamed X — and extensively interacting with extremists on the site — he fully endorsed Trump for 2024 and personally worked to help get him elected.
Trump and his GOP allies have long planned to put Musk, who has long been a significant contractor with the government through his SpaceX company, in an advisory role on how to purge unneeded portions of the federal workforce.
The incoming president has suggested replacing much of the civil service with Trump loyalists.
