A week ago Donald Trump y Elon Musk They starred in an extraordinary joint appearance in the Oval Office, a session before the press where the president signed an executive order that extended the powers of the richest man in the world, which spent more than 30 minutes answering questions about his controversial work in front of the front Doge, the so -called “department” of government efficiency. This Tuesday, the two share the stage again, this time in Fox Newsin the First interview they have granted togetherwho have given Trump’s friend and ally Sean Hannity And what was it recorded last Friday.
The pair of advances made public before issuance by the chain do not have a relevant informative content. Both Trump and Musk answer a Hannity question where the journalist accuses the media and commentators of “trying to cause a divorce” Between the Republican and the owner of Space X, Tesla and X. and the Republican mocked supposed comments that the control of the presidency has grown to Musk or who call the richest man in the president. “They are bad in what they do,” he says about the media. “If they had been good, I would never have been president,”
Musk is also responsible for describing what he calls “Trump disorder syndrome”a term used to describe pejoratively criticism or negative reactions to the president. He assures that he discovered it at a dinner one or two months before the elections. “I mentioned the president’s name and it was as if they had launched a jugular a dart which contained Methaphetamines and rage “he says before starting to make great gestures to ridicule critics. Musk also states that conversations with Democrats About Trump are impossible because “it is as if they had become totally irrational”.
Uncertainty about Musk’s role
The two advances do not enter into any of the great controversies that surround the work that Musk is performing in the government without controls or accountability mechanisms, which have continued to intensify since the interview was recorded. This Monday, in a judicial document in a case presented against Musk in the state of New Mexico, the director of the Office of the Administration of the White House, Joshua Fisher, has revealed that Musk is not the Doge service administratoralthough Trump repeatedly speaks of him as the person in charge of that entity (not a department itself) in charge of finding inefficiencies in the government and cutting expense and personal.
“Like other advisors, Mr. Musk Nor has formal or de facto authority to make decisions of the government. Mr. Musk can only advise the president and communicate his directives”, Read in the document presented by Fisher.
Since the recording of the interview, in addition, there have been other outstanding events referring to Musk’s controversial work. The Social Security Manager resigned This weekend after a clash with the Milmillonario for the attempts and doge of accessing data. Social security is responsible for paying pensions of 70 million Americans and manages numerous personal information, including labor and salaries. Previously the highest civil official of the Tesoro After refusing to give the MUSK team access to data from a service that manages payments of five billion dollars per year and numerous Sensitive information of citizens and companies.
This weekend it was also learned that the Doge team tries to access data from Hacienda And that in the FDAthe US agency that is responsible for the regulation and control of food and medicines security, among fired officials are 20 that worked on the review of clinical trials of companies such as Neuralink, One of Musk’s companies.
The apparent ones conflicts of interest They don’t end there. After starting hundreds of layoffs in the Federal Aviation Administrationemployees of Space X They have begun to participate in the Planning of the remodeling of that agency.
