The oligarch said he'll scale back his involvement in DOGE but will remain throughout Trump's presidency.
  • kreskin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    1 小时前

    these contrived reports of him quitting politics or being depressed to try to get some sympathy and stop the stock selling are pathetic. He’s never cared about anyone else, even his own children, and he still absolutely does not. He’s a spoiled psycopath who thinks he can manipulate people.

  • Bieren@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    2 小时前

    Of course he is. His stocks are extremely overvalued and he has leveraged them to hell and back.

  • ExtantHuman@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 小时前

    Good. He’s actively making the world a worse place for everyone else. He should feel bad.

  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    271·
    3 小时前

    There’s not really any news in that article.

    Notably, Musk said he would be stepping back from DOGE after May but didn’t go into any detail about what that would mean. Even though he said he would be easing up on his involvement, the billionaire said that he would remain in the government through President Trump’s entire term,

    This is meaningless.

    • randon31415@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      3 小时前

      stepping back from DOGE after May

      Appointed temporary government employee which means he only could work until June without congressional approval. Set this up from the start to take heat off of Trump and allow Trump to seem reasonable compared to Musk when Trump ‘fires’ him in June.

      • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        51·
        2 小时前

        I’m aware of that, but obviously the concept of “work” doesn’t apply to Musk as it does to government employees generally.

        He will have the same influence and whatever level of involvement he wants regardless of whether he’s a temporary government employee, a consultant, or just a contact.

    • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
      32·
      2 小时前

      This is very meaningful, the stock market will start growing again and everyone who managed to buy more shares around the 7-8th of April will become insanely rich in a very short span of time. And those who got scared and sold will continue crying that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

  • SouthEndSunset@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    3 小时前

    He’s leaving Trumps team to spend more time at Tesla. The one thing that would benefit Tesla is him spending less time there.

  • AidsKitty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 小时前

    Building a business and getting involved in politics is financial suicide 99% of the time. It’s one thing to work behind the scenes but to be the poster boy is just reckless. It is a tragic situation because Tesla was the only EV company in competition with the Chinese and now the Chinese will dominate global EV sales.

  • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 小时前

    extremely

    yet, not enough, if his troglodyte head still has the same amount of stupid holes.