Donald Trump just gave away something about how much Elon Musk and the cabinet hate each other
Trouble was clearly brewing when several Trump-appointed agencies told their employees to ignore Elon Musk’s supposed “mandatory” email last month. Donald Trump was going to have to pick a side. He appeared to make that decision when he put Musk in charge of his first cabinet meeting. But now Trump appears to have done what he does most often – tepidly flip flop.
Trump met with his cabinet again today and informed them that they’ll now have total control over who gets laid off, and that Musk will only be able to make “recommendations” from now on. In other words, Trump pulled the plug on the Musk experiment – at least for now. I’ll have a lot more to say on Trump shutting down Musk in my Friday morning column. In the meantime, trouble is clearly still brewing internally, because Trump just unwittingly announced as much.
Trump made a social media post today insisting that Musk and the cabinet are getting along splendidly, the best anyone has ever gotten along. The thing is, the only reason you’d ever need to make such a bizarre announcement is if they’re very much not getting along. In other words, Musk and the cabinet hate each other, Trump is too weak and confused to figure out how to make them play nice, and now he’s resorting to simply announcing that everything is fine. Expect more infighting going forward.
