Donald Trump’s return to the White House was always going to be a spectacular adventure. But it would be nothing without Elon Musk.
Not only is the billionaire using his X social media platform to amplify nearly every aspect of Trump’s swashbuckling policy agenda – with the exception, perhaps, of the tariffs that must be a risk to Musk’s China-exposed electric vehicle giant Tesla – but Musk appears to be cutting a swath through the bureaucracy with his Department of Government Efficiency.