Donald Trump has mocked what he mentioned have been media depictions of Elon Musk as the actual energy within the White House, saying makes an attempt to drive a wedge between himself and the tech billionaire have failed.
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“They do it all the time,” the US president says in excerpts posted on Saturday from a Fox News interview to be aired on Tuesday.
Speaking as if in a information anchor’s voice, Trump went on, “We have breaking news: Donald Trump has ceded control of the presidency to Elon Musk. President Musk will be attending a cabinet meeting tonight…”
Widespread hypothesis
The Republican president is famously prickly about being outshone by anybody in his entourage, and there was widespread hypothesis that Musk’s excessive profile may result in his downfall.
South Africa-born Musk, whereas nominally simply the pinnacle of a brand new “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), has taken on terribly broad powers in figuring out what he says are areas of waste after which transferring rapidly to chop jobs and spending.
Those strikes by the world’s wealthiest particular person have drawn jibes within the press, together with a Time journal cowl displaying Musk sitting behind the president’s iconic Resolute Desk, and a New Yorker cowl displaying each Trump and Musk, arms on a Bible, collectively taking the presidential oath of workplace.
Donald Trump up to now has been publicly supportive of Musk’s work, which the president says is vitally vital at a time of hovering price range deficits.
In the Fox interview, Trump mentioned he and Musk had mentioned the media mockery.
“Actually, Elon called me,” the president mentioned.
“He said, ‘You know, they’re trying to drive us apart.’ I said, ‘Absolutely.’”
Trump added that Americans understood what the media allegedly have been as much as.
“I used to think they were good at it,” Trump mentioned.
“They’re actually bad at it, because if they were good at it, I’d never be president.”
“The people are smart,” he went on.
“They get it.”
Amid all of the criticism, Musk has continued to attract an intense media focus, together with in an Oval Office look through which a casually dressed Musk introduced his four-year-old son and spoke at better size than the president.
Democrats have seized on the at occasions awkward dynamic, and opinion polls present unfavourable views of the Tesla and SpaceX boss clearly outpacing optimistic ones.
But Donald Trump, meantime, is having fun with a few of his highest approval rankings ever.
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