Don't Let Them Gaslight Elon Musk's Exit

Elon Musk has supposedly ended his time directly destroying the U.S. government for Donald Trump, thus beginning his thrown under the Trump bus journey. Don't forget he did it all at Trump's behest.

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Bye, Elon. It’s been horrible.

Elon Musk is finally exiting the building, albeit only after burning it to the ground.

A mere day after Elon Musk criticized Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” he is out at DOGE.

Musk told the BBC’s American partner CBS that Trump’s bill would increase the federal deficit and “undermines the work" of DOGE.

And just a day after he criticized Trump’s bloated bill that some Republicans claim to have voted yes on without reading, Musk was out.

The Republican Party’s biggest donor thanked Trump for the “opportunity” to “reduce wasteful spending” (i.e., fire people investigating Elon Musk’s businesses and self?) and the White House confirmed they began “offboarding” Musk on Wednesday night, according to the BBC.

Musk was never expected to stay at DOGE given his eventually announced status as a “special government employee” after legal confrontations, but the BBC notes, “His role was temporary and his exit is not unexpected, but it comes a day after Musk criticised the legislative centrepiece of Trump's agenda.”

Nothing will get a person escorted out of Trump’s orbit faster than criticizing him publicly and especially criticizing his permanent tax cuts for the elites while stealing from the poor and middle classes. You see, Trump needs this bill to pass in order to best former President Joe Biden.

Donald Trump is Responsible for Elon Musk

As everyone is no doubt grateful to see the back of Elon Musk, we can’t forget that Donald Trump is responsible for what Musk did.

As I’ve been writing from the beginning of Musk’s time as the destroyer of the United States institutions and unlawful invader of Americans’ privacy, he would always be used as the face for the destruction and then exit stage left carrying all of the blame only to be forgotten amid the rubble of his efforts.

Elon Musk did what he did because Donald Trump wanted him to. He was Trump’s cleaner. Yes, Musk did things to help himself as well, but the chaos and undermining of our institutions were done under Trump’s watch and with his enabling.

Notice how Trump will distance himself from Musk while issuing vague praise, and how the press will allow this shell game to exist while they try to focus attention on the last president. Apparently, Donald Trump can have a whole government destroyer working under him and not be accountable for it, but somehow no one is writing books about his cognitive decline.

Musk is “Exhausted and Exasperated”

Reuters reported a “person with knowledge of Musk's efforts in the Trump administration described him to Reuters in April as ‘exhausted and exasperated,’ especially by the blowback against his companies.”

And yet, Musk is only at the beginning of his FAFO under the Trump bus wheels journey.