Elon Musk, DOGE and Trump
A new poll suggests Americans are split on overhauling the federal government with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Research by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that only around 3 in 10 Americans approve of the effort.
Americans see the federal government as rife with corruption, inefficiency and red tape — but they’re less sure about whether Elon Musk is the right person to fix it.
Trump staffers are reportedly angry with Elon Musk for publicly undermining the $500 billion Stargate Project. Musk has questioned the finances behind the AI infrastructure project and used his social media influence to attack one of the project's leaders.
Laura Loomer is alleging that even though she has been “loyal” to Donald Trump, one of his most prominent “administration officials” is censoring her: Tech multibillionaire Elon Musk, that is. The far-right conspiracy theorist and Trump diehard claims that her posts on X are being hidden from her followers and that her account has been stripped of its monetization.
Content creator Jimmy Donaldson, known on the Internet as MrBeast, has made it clear he is interested in buying TikTok. Donaldson has the most subscribers of any user on YouTube— over 340 million—and boasts over 113 million TikTok followers.
Milwaukee's CBS 58 dropped meteorologist Sam Kuffel after she criticized Elon Musk for his arm gesture at a Trump post-inauguration rally.
Musk was photographed chatting with fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos at a pre-inauguration dinner — but the woman next to him caught even more attention.
The president said he’s also open to another tech giant to acquire TikTok: Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle. Ellison was present at the White House for a $500 billion AI infrastructure partnership between the Trump administration and OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle. Oracle, a software company, houses most of TikTok's servers
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would be supportive of the world's richest man and his close aide, Elon Musk, buying TikTok "if he wanted to". Trump was asked if he would be open to the billionaire founder of Tesla buying the short-video platform facing a nationwide ban in the US after the Supreme Court last week upheld a law requiring TikTok to sever ties with its Chinese parent ByteDance.
The blossoming relationship between President Donald Trump and tech titan Elon Musk was on full display throughout Monday's inauguration ceremonies.
Elon Musk has cast doubt on Donald Trump’s $500 billion AI project by questioning whether it has enough financial backing. “They don’t actually have the money,” the MAGA billionaire wrote on X in a rare public dig at Trump just hours after the president made a big announcement about the privately funded initiative.