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Elon Musk can be the most divisive man in Washington and President Trump’s White House.
In a camp field, Trump’s allies who see it as a matter of time before the President gets tired personally and professionally from Musk, which has been unmissable last week, as he and staff in the Department of Efficiency of the Government (DOGE) have tried to take advantage of the control of various agencies.
Critics see a technology titan who is not responsible for anyone but of Trump and Agit the controversyeven with Some Republicans.
The other camp there are Trump advisers who see Musk who help to offer exactly what the President promised as a candidate.
“This is what President Trump campaigned,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday. “Elon Musk is a very respected business leader, once in generation, who is volunteering his time to help make our federal government more efficient.”
Musk’s shadow is on the White House everyday business.
In separate exchanges for the past three days with the press, Trump was asked about Musk and his role in government. Leavitt faced Musk’s questions during a brief Q&A with journalists on Monday in the midst of the discharge of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Leavitt confirmed that Musk serves from Special Government Employee.
Trump has publicly supported Musk, and his advisers show himself with the suggestion that the Technic Titan resembles a co -president.
“Elon cannot do it and he will do nothing without our approval,” Trump told journalists on Monday. “And we will give you the approval, if applicable, if not appropriate. … but it has a good natural instinct, it has a team of very talented people. We are trying to reduce the government and can probably reduce it and anyone else, if it is not better. “”
After the Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz (D) published on the social platform X that Musk “is a terrible president,” the white -house communications director, Steven Cheung, replied, “Tim Walz is a worm.”
This week, Musk has been at the Trump Hacksaw center in the federal government. Has been the main animator erasing usaid. Your team has been pressing to access the Treasury Department Payment systemAnd DOGE staff have participated in the administration of small companies and the administration of government services.
Musk’s actions have caused protests outside the USAID building, in a cry of the Democrats and a little concern of the public. A gallup survey On January 21 and 27, 43 percent of Americans considered a favorable vision of Musk, compared to 47 percent of an unfavorable vision, and that Musk-focused evil news cycles could frustrate Trump.
“This Elon’s thing will end in three months. Both boys want to be the center of attention,” a Republican donor told The Hill who requested anonymity to speak freely.
But when critics see Musk as an existential threat for government guards and a danger to politically triumphant, his proponents consider him a revolutionary thinker with labor ethics to follow the promises of Trump’s campaign.
“The only legitimate criticism of Democrats is that President Trump has brought together the Office of the President of North -American History, the most highly highly competent, more competent and efficiently efficient work in North -American history,” he goes Publish X. “The voters of the required agenda will be delivered.”
The key role of Vance
With Musk absorbing significant attention, Vice President Vance has managed to fly a little under the radar in the first weeks of the new administration.
But it was Vance who played a critical role to help some of Trump’s most controversial cabinet candidates win swing senators.
Senator Bill Cassidy (R-) thanked Vance for his “honest advice” when deciding to support Robert F. Kennedy Jr. nomination. to run the Department of Health and Human Services.
Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) Also spoke to Vance, as he finally came to a “yes” vote in favor of the Tullesi Gabbard nomination to act as director of National Intelligence.
White House officials argued that Vance’s Senate connections will be critical. Its old colleagues are very pleasant and respected by the GOP part, according to these officials, and Vance has shown the ability to articulate Trump’s beliefs in the legislators.
The trade war that was not
Trump’s trade war that was not with Mexico and Canada offered a lesson on how foreign leaders could try to navigate for the next four years.
The president was ready to impose rates on two nations on Tuesday, but they were delayed one month after calls with leaders in both countries.
Mexico announced that he would send 10,000 soldiers to the United States border to fall into Fentanyl traffic. Canada said he would appoint a Tsar to monitor efforts to stop Fentanyl’s flow and would put himself in the posture towards the cartels.
Neither ads were necessarily innovative on their own, and Canada and Mexico in recent years have increased their efforts to reduce migrants and drugs that cross the border. But the terms were enough to satisfy Trump, and the White House took a victory.
Foreign leaders’ lesson? Even a small gesture in Trump can be enough to avoid a harmful dispute.
Foreign leaders go to the White House
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was honored to be the first foreign leader to meet Trump in the White House, but others are not behind.
Trump will host the Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House on Friday.
King Abdullah of Jordan is expected to meet with Trump on Tuesday. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer must also visit Trump at the White House this month.
The pace of visits reflects the rush between foreign leaders to achieve the good side of Trump and to have an idea of what he can do on rates and foreign policy in the coming months.
