{"id":17064,"date":"2024-11-22T15:39:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T16:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17064"},"modified":"2024-11-22T17:23:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T17:23:53","slug":"elon-musk-gets-a-crash-course-in-how-trumpworld-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17064","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Gets a Crash Course in How Trumpworld Works"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The world\u2019s richest person, not known for his humility, is still learning the cutthroat courtier politics of Donald Trump\u2019s inner circle \u2014 and his ultimate influence remains an open question.<\/p>\n

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For the first 53 years of his life, Elon Musk barely spent any time with Donald J. Trump. Then, beginning on the night of Nov. 5, he spent basically no time without him.<\/p>\n

And so Mr. Musk, more than any other key player in the presidential transition, finds himself in a cram session to learn the courtier politics of Mr. Trump\u2019s inner circle. For the world\u2019s richest person \u2014 not known for his humility or patience \u2014 it is a social engineering challenge far trickier and less familiar than heavy manufacturing or rocket science.<\/p>\n

Doubts abound as to whether he will graduate in 2028 with a four-year degree in Trumpism: It is now a parlor game in Washington and Silicon Valley to speculate just how long the Musk-Trump relationship will last. The answer, as discarded aides from Mr. Trump\u2019s first term will tell you, may depend on Mr. Musk\u2019s ability to placate the boss and keep a relatively low profile \u2014 but also to shiv a rival when the time comes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In short, how to play the politics of Trumpworld.<\/p>\n

Most of the people who now surround Mr. Trump in the transition are battle-tested aides from his past fights, or decades-long personal friends. Mr. Musk is neither. What he brings instead are his 200 million followers on X and the roughly $200 million he spent to help elect Mr. Trump. Both of those have greatly impressed the president-elect. Mr. Trump, gobsmacked by Mr. Musk\u2019s willingness to lay off 80 percent<\/a> of the staff at X, has said the tech billionaire will help lead<\/a> a Department of Government Efficiency alongside Vivek Ramaswamy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Musk showed Mr. Trump and Republican lawmakers the control room before the launch of a SpaceX rocket on Tuesday in South Texas.<\/span>Pool photo by Brandon Bell<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Over the last week, Mr. Musk has kept up his buddy routine with Mr. Trump<\/a>, joining him at nearly every meeting at Mar-a-Lago as well as a U.F.C. fight<\/a>. On Tuesday, he brought the president-elect<\/a> to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas for a SpaceX launch.<\/p>\n

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The world\u2019s richest person, not known for his humility, is still learning the cutthroat courtier politics of Donald Trump\u2019s inner circle \u2014 and his ultimate influence remains an open question.For the first 53 years of his life, Elon Musk barely spent any time with Donald J. Trump. Then, beginning on the night of Nov. 5, he spent basically no time without him.And so Mr. Musk, more than any other key player in the presidential transition, finds himself in a cram session to learn the courtier politics of Mr. Trump\u2019s inner circle. For the world\u2019s richest person \u2014 not known for his humility or patience \u2014 it is a social engineering challenge far trickier and less familiar than heavy manufacturing or rocket science.Doubts abound as to whether he will graduate in 2028 with a four-year degree in Trumpism: It is now a parlor game in Washington and Silicon Valley to speculate just how long the Musk-Trump relationship will last. The answer, as discarded aides from Mr. Trump\u2019s first term will tell you, may depend on Mr. Musk\u2019s ability to placate the boss and keep a relatively low profile \u2014 but also to shiv a rival when the time comes.In short, how to play the politics of Trumpworld.Most of the people who now surround Mr. Trump in the transition are battle-tested aides from his past fights, or decades-long personal friends. Mr. Musk is neither. What he brings instead are his 200 million followers on X and the roughly $200 million he spent to help elect Mr. Trump. Both of those have greatly impressed the president-elect. Mr. Trump, gobsmacked by Mr. Musk\u2019s willingness to lay off 80 percent of the staff at X, has said the tech billionaire will help lead a Department of Government Efficiency alongside Vivek Ramaswamy.Mr. Musk showed Mr. Trump and Republican lawmakers the control room before the launch of a SpaceX rocket on Tuesday in South Texas.Pool photo by Brandon BellOver the last week, Mr. Musk has kept up his buddy routine with Mr. Trump, joining him at nearly every meeting at Mar-a-Lago as well as a U.F.C. fight. On Tuesday, he brought the president-elect to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas for a SpaceX launch.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17066,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17067,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17064\/revisions\/17067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}