Elon Musk announces exit from US government role after breaking with Trump on tax bill
The departure of a man who once appointed himself Trump’s “first buddy” was quick and unceremonious. Musk did not have a formal conversation with Trump before announcing he was leaving the administration, according to a source with knowledge of the matter, who added that his exit was decided “at a senior staff level.”
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This clown show plays the American public like a circus act
I won't believe the circus has left town until I see them take the monkeys off the stage
Actually that's an Orangutan, which are great apes. Well this one isn't so great, but it's a different family than monkeys.
That’s an insult to orang-utans, who are quite intelligent, unlike Agent Orange
he did what he needed to do, end all investigations against him, award all contracts to him that were blocked. fire all department employees as a distraction.
Come on now, Elon's paid >$250 million dollars to trump's campaign (that we know of) he deserves to have his needs met, the US isn't called "land of the free" for nothing! /s https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/07/elon_election_spending/
"I'm going!"
"I'm leaving!!"
"Watch me, I'm walking out the door for sure!"
Apparently they have to make sure even the most dimwitted has recieved the notice that Elon Musk "definitely isn't part of this administration anymore, pinky swear and everything".
"Now please buy my shiny dumpsters!"
“Please forget about my Nazi salute, my support for Nazi parties all over the world, my white suprematist AI, my alt right communication platform, my racist and hateful remarks, and please buy my cars again!”
It did. I remember media saying he was out at least once or twice before. But he was still there so IDK. It's probably just smoke so people don't look too much into it.
Exactly. They've realized Elon is deeply disliked by everyone. He's too rich to just cut out entirely, so they're just taking the cameras away from him.
I haven’t been paying attention, but weren’t we a couple weeks or days away from his active involvement with DOGE coming to an end per a previously agreed upon timeline?
Hes always about to leave his role.
I'm not fired, I quit!
A 130 days is the number I'd read https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/elon-musk-doge-accomplishment-criticism-explained-trump-admin-funding-cut-125052900745_1.html
Isn't this the 3rd or 4th time in the last month Musk has "left the government"?
Even if this is true the damage he managed to do in just a few months will continue for a long time. Go fuck yourself, Elon.
Plus all the data he now has... That he stole.
Just say it... You were fired. you were DOGED.
okay, so i normally hate LLMs, but this is pretty funny.
here's my joke: "you think he'll share his breakup spotify playlist? i bet it has lots of evanescence on it"
here's what it suggested instead: "You think he'll drop his breakup playlist? Bet it’s just Grimes tracks and the sound of him refreshing Trump's DMs."
edit - LMAO
"Can’t wait for Elon’s breakup playlist. Probably just Grimes songs and audio clips of him begging Trump to like him again."
You "normally" hate llms yet run to them to generate jokes for you after reading news headlines?
when LLMs are used to replace actual intelligence, then yeah i hate them. they're pretty funny sometimes, too. just like autocorrect.
That doesn't address why you would immediately try to use chatgpt to change a joke.
if LLMs were marketed as language assistance and productivity tools, that would be splendid. instead, they plug it into google and tell everyone it's artificial intelligence. Now it just bullshits to everyone because they think they're talking to a sentient fucking machine instead of 21st-century Clippy.
all that said, your post has a bit of an accusatory and judgemental tone to it - at least as i'm reading it. did i address your concern?
May he take a long walk off a very short, but very tall, bridge.
Not that it matters much that he is "leaving" DOGE as I'm sure his cronies will continue his "work" for him.
Maybe he can ride the next rocket his company tries to launch.
I really think this is just about him wanting to stop pissing off Tesla customers and get people to go back to buying his cars. I don’t believe at all that this break is legit.
People will still not buy Teslas. Even if he stops gutting important government offices, he's still a fucking nazi.
Dear Elon,
It's not in your head. It's real, nobody loves you. Nobody will ever love you.
Sorry not sorry, Everyone
Hopefully he departs earth next.
No one cares bro! Go die if you want, you already did enough to destroy the world.
All according to the script. Raise curtain for Act II.
I've done my job, like I always do. I made myself important and in the spotlights, I destroyed everything, I'm leaving behind ruins and a pile of shit. It costed the tax payers a lot of agony and money, but I had a lot of fun and I made a lot of money so it was worth it. Thank you!
Treasury department has more backdoors in it than an Asus router with the default password. His work is done.
Bullshit
Gotta save face, even if your 'contract' expires in 3 days...oh, and frumpy already kicked you out.
Good to see you go. Now time for you to leave the country Nazi.
Yet another in a long list of people that Donnie doesn't need any more.
I don't think so. You don't buy the us presidency for hundreds of millions just to give up after a few months. He'll just pretend to work at Tesla while actually continuing be the president
LOL KEK
(Am I doing that right?)
He broke with Trump over the Big Beautiful Billionare Enrichment Bill? Was his cut not big enough?
Good riddance, you won't be missed, make sure the door hits you on the way out.