The media wants Elon Musk’s head on a platter.
President Trump was forced to respond.
And Elon Musk got one message from Donald Trump that took everyone by surprise.
As West Wing Daily reports:
Donald Trump is clearly happy with the work that Elon Musk is doing, and he is not shy about giving Musk his flowers in a public setting despite the heavy criticism of Musk from the left.
Musk was at a recent Cabinet meeting with Trump and his secretaries, and Trump wanted to make sure Musk and everyone else knew how much he approved of his work.
He gave a gushing statement about Musk’s efforts to make the government run more efficiently as some of the most powerful people in the country listened.
And no sooner had he finished his statement than the entire room burst into applause, a rarity at a Cabinet meeting for a situation like that.
It’s clear that Trump’s sentiments about Musk are shared by the other members of his Cabinet and they were happy to voice their approval as well.
This will almost certainly give Musk the confidence to continue in his work of trying to improve the government.
According to The Independent, “It’s not unusual for Donald Trump’s meetings to conclude with spontaneous bursts of applause from his underlings. It is unusual for that applause to be directed at anyone but Trump himself.
“In front of the gathered press after a cabinet meeting on Monday, it was Elon Musk on the receiving end of the sycophancy. It came after a lengthy tribute from Trump himself, who singled out the ‘senior advisor’ and DOGE figurehead for praise.”
Of course, Musk is not the typical person who attends a Cabinet meeting. In fact, he is the richest man on the face of the planet.
He clearly has more cachet than the typical department secretary, and that gives him a degree of power in the administration that is unusual.
The article continues, “As Trump spoke, Musk wore a hat emblazoned with the words ‘Trump was right about everything.’ He sat at a table alongside some of the most powerful people in the country with a place setting bearing only his name. No title was needed, apparently.”
“Trump’s comments were followed by a lengthy round of applause from the cabinet as JD Vance, the vice president and neglected son of the West Wing, looked on.
“But the applause was only the finale of a drawn-out Musk-fest that showed just how much power and influence the billionaire now commands in the White House and beyond, reaching into every department of the US government.”
Musk does not have official power in the government, and Trump has made it clear that he is an advisor and cannot dole out orders to Cabinet secretaries.
But he is certainly a very powerful and respected advisor, and the reaction of the Cabinet to Trump’s statement shows that the secretaries admire him. It does not seem that Elon Musk is going away anytime soon, judging by his reception at Trump’s Cabinet meetings.