25 February

I've watched many business people try to get involved with politics. It's always a disaster, because government is way, way more complex than business, and more ruthless. The ones who 'want to run the town/country more like a business' fall the hardest, clueless. Right now Musk is being used as a patsy or fall guy by Trump, to implement the nonsense the MAGA folk say they want. It will be a disaster (already has been), and by staying at arm's length from it by getting Musk to do it, Trump is using Musk as a human shield. He'll take credit for any apparent successes, and blame Musk for the mass failures. Musk is too vain and stupid to know this is what's going on.