By Alex Berenson - February 14, 2025

Two alphas with very different skills, one government to shrink.

Fair to say no one expected this.

In July, when Elon Musk endorsed Donald Trump for president, almost everyone assumed his support would be mostly financial, maybe a couple of hundred million dollars – a rounding error for Musk.

In November, when Trump announced Musk would run a new “Department of Government Efficiency” after winning, the plan sounded like a joke. That was especially true considering DOGE is the name of a favorite crypto “memecoin” of Musk’s — a pretend currency that’s essentially a legal Ponzi scheme.

In December, as a fight over visas for skilled tech workers escalated, Steve Bannon, an architect of the Make America Great Again movement and fierce Trump loyalist, took aim at Musk, calling Musk a “toddler.” Bannon later promised to ensure Musk didn’t have free rein in the White House. Musk “should go back to South Africa,” he said.

Meanwhile, Maggie Haberman, a New York Times reporter normally well-sourced in the White House, reported that Trump was complaining “how Musk is around a lot.”

Bad read, Maggie.

At least for the moment, Musk has pushed aside Bannon and everyone else who stood in his way. Not only does he have free rein in the White House, he and his son X had an Oval Office press conference with Trump on Wednesday.

The left fervently hopes Trump will grow tired of the publicity Musk is receiving – and refers to “President Musk” to annoy Trump. It’s not working. Trump and Musk, who barely knew each other not long ago, are now each other’s biggest fans.

Don’t take it from me . . .

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