Did you hear? A temporary government employee whose legally limited term of employment is 130 days is going to leave government employment after 140 days?!
Shocking, I know. Somebody in the government is going to obey the law, which explains why the news media is printing screaming headlines that Elon Musk is leaving government employment.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk loudly proclaimed when Elon Musk was hired that he would be in his position for 130 days. Given how things work in recent years, it is shocking that somebody in the government is obeying the law. That almost never happened under Obama and Joe Biden.
Yesterday, X was filled with celebration that Elon Musk had been pressured out of the government by all the attacks on Tesla. It was all started by a POLITICO “scoop” that the Trump administration had had enough. Trump liked him, but his cabinet did not.
🚨 SCOOP: Pres Trump has told his inner circle & members of his Cabinet that @elonmusk will be stepping back in the coming weeks from his current role
➡️Trump remains pleased w/ Musk & DOGE, but both men have decided in recent days that it will soon be time for Musk to return…
— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) April 2, 2025
SCOOP: Pres Trump has told his inner circle & members of his Cabinet that
@elonmusk will be stepping back in the coming weeks from his current role
➡️Trump remains pleased w/ Musk & DOGE, but both men have decided in recent days that it will soon be time for Musk to return to his businesses and take on a supporting role.
➡️Musk’s looming exit comes as some Trump administration insiders & many outside allies have become frustrated with his unpredictability & view the billionaire as a political liability, a dynamic that was thrown into stark relief Tuesday when a conservative judge Musk vocally supported lost his bid for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat by 10 points.
OF NOTE: Senior administration official said Musk is likely to retain an informal role as an adviser & continue to be an occasional face around the White House grounds. Another cautioned that anyone who thinks Musk is going to disappear entirely from Trump’s orbit is “fooling themselves.”
BUT BUT BUT… The news represents a shift in the Trump-Musk relationship from a month ago, when White House officials &allies were predicting Musk was “here to stay” and that Trump would find a way to blow past the 130-day time limit.
ON TIMING: POTUS has indicated that the transition is likely to correspond to the end of Musk’s time as a “special government employee,” a special status that temporarily exempts him from some ethics and conflict-of-interest rules. That 130-day period is expected to expire in late May or early June.
WHY NOW? Musk’s defenders believe that the time is right for a transition, given their view that there’s only so much more he can cut from government agencies without shaving too close to the bone.
But many others say, he’s an unpredictable, unmanageable force who has had issues communicating his plans with Cabinet secretaries and through the White House chain of command led by Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, frequently sending them into a frenzy with unexpected and off-message comments on X, his social-media platform — including sharing unvetted and uncoordinated plans to gut federal agencies.
I’LL BE REFLOWING THE STORY WITH MORE DEETS SOON…
https://politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/02/trump-musk-leaving-political-liability-00265784
Every single of word of that “scoop” was a total invention. It was a Narrative™, and everybody in the media picked it up, amplified it, and created a story that was essentially a hoax as invented as the “fine people” hoax.
This “scoop” is garbage.
Elon Musk and President Trump have both *publicly* stated that Elon will depart from public service as a special government employee when his incredible work at DOGE is complete. https://t.co/Brppff6SKi
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) April 2, 2025
POLITICO didn’t make a mistake. The invented–or rather spread an invented hoax for somebody who cooked it up–because the left needs to create the sense that their coordinated opposition is working. Trump is losing momentum, his cabinet is revolting, and Musk has become a liability. It is part of their plan to cripple Trump by crippling Musk.
Notice all the details, the innuendo, the “inside scoop?” Invented. It may be true that some of Trump’s cabinet don’t like Musk–they don’t talk to me, so who knows?–but it is clearly false that Trump wants Elon to go–not just because he says that he loves Elon, but because Trump loves hanging out with Elon and shows it by…hanging out with Elon and his son, who seems to have the run of the White House and is often by Trump’s side as if he is a favorite uncle.
The White House is strongly pushing back on a report that Elon Musk will soon step down from his role within the Trump administration. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said any report suggesting such is “B.S.” More: https://t.co/muRrzaGd3i pic.twitter.com/mWbgSOwffS
— NewsNation (@NewsNation) April 3, 2025
The Pravda Media has been working assiduously to demonize Elon Musk, drive a wedge between Trump and Elon (“President Musk,” anyone?), and a pre-planned stepping back required by the law is their opportunity to add fuel to the fire they are trying to start.
Remember: these are the people who told you that videos of Biden being dazed and confused were “cheap fakes.” They are liars.
Lying liars lie liberally.
