The relationship between Donald Trump and Elon Musk defined the first month of the Trump administration.
But now the rubber just met the road.
And Donald Trump was forced to admit one head-turning fact about Elon Musk.
As West Wing Daily reports:
The media has been portraying Elon Musk like he is the self-appointed new president who has given himself unlimited power over the country.
But while this portrayal of Musk might get Democrats ginned up, it is apparently false, something that was proven when a document was released that showed Musk’s exact role in the White House.
The document stated clearly that Musk is an advisor to the White House and has no independent power outside of what the president gives him.
Anything he does is coming directly from the top, or is at least taking place with the approval of the duly elected president of the United States, Donald Trump.
The idea that Musk has gone rogue and completely taken over D.C. without any authority from elected officials is completely incorrect.
Trump is still in charge, Musk is operating under him, and they are doing the exact things that Americans knew they were voting for when they chose Trump last November.
According to Reuters, “Billionaire Elon Musk’s role in the Trump administration is as a White House employee and senior adviser to the president and is not an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and has no decision-making authority, the White House said in a court filing on Monday.
“According to a filing signed by Joshua Fisher, director of the Office of Administration at the White House, Musk can only advise the president and communicate the president’s directives.”
This filing is important because it blunts the criticism from the left that an “unelected billionaire” is rampaging through D.C. with no accountability.
In reality, Musk is just someone with expertise in running large organizations who Trump hired to do the things he said he was going to do throughout the campaign.
The article continues, “Fisher’s filing, made in a case brought against Musk by the State of New Mexico, said that Musk was not an employee of the U.S. DOGE Service, or the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization, and added: ‘Mr. Musk is not the U.S. DOGE Service Administrator.’
“DOGE has swept through federal agencies since Donald Trump began his second term as president last month and put Musk, the chief executive of carmaker Tesla, in charge of rooting out wasteful spending as part a dramatic overhaul of government that has included thousands of job cuts.”
Trump and Musk have done so much during their first weeks in office that it’s unlikely that anyone fully agrees with every part of it.
Even conservatives won’t like their recent decision on IVF, or their general avoidance of the abortion issue.
But just about every decision they have made, right or wrong, has been in line with Trump’s campaign promises and what polls show Americans want.
And that means the left’s criticisms of Musk as a threat to democracy are invalid.