The Trump Administration's Opinion on Elon Musk After Actually Working With Him Reveals a Lot

It's becoming increasingly apparent that billionaire Elon Musk wasn't some great mastermind, puppeting president Donald Trump from the shadows. In reality, the mercurial CEO has become a surprisingly reviled fixture on Capitol Hill, getting into screaming matches and frequently losing his composure, while also making "annoying" jokes and being ridiculed by the public. The walls started coming down earlier this year, when Musk lost his temper with Trump's treasury secretary Scott Bessent, shouting obscenities at him in the halls of the West Wing, as The Atlantic reports. The pair were fighting over who would get to pick the incoming leader of the Internal Revenue Service, highlighting tensions over how an unelected official — whose job was nominally to oversee the gutting of federal agencies — was looking to shoehorn himself into even more impactful decisions that directly affected his own wealth and business interests. As Musk's chaotic and destructive time at the White House comes ... Read full article.