Political Reporter Says Elon Musk Is ‘Playing A Risky Game’ With Trump
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There’s been speculation that the Trump-Musk bromance can’t last, and the SpaceX CEO’s latest scheming might not help his cause.
Wall Street Journal reporter Vivian Salama said Elon Musk is “definitely playing a risky game” by getting ahead of Donald Trump to tank a government funding bill.
Democrats and other critics started calling Musk Trump’s “shadow president” on Wednesday after the billionaire Tesla CEO railed repeatedly against the bill in a social media spree, before the president-elect ultimately weighed in, likely delivering a fatal blow to the bipartisan deal negotiated by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).
“It’s incredibly risky,” Salama, a national politics reporter who covered the White House during Trump’s first administration, said of Musk’s maneuvering on CNN’s “OutFront” on Wednesday.
“And amazingly, his advisors have been remarkably silent on why it took Donald Trump, or even Vice President-elect JD Vance, so long to weigh in on this issue,” she continued. “Whereas Elon Musk ... was tweeting all day long about this, as was Vivek Ramaswamy.”
Musk reportedly spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to help elect Trump. The president-elect subsequently tapped Musk, along with entrepreneur and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, to lead a new non-government advisory group, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
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