MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday steered Elon Musk had suffered “a humiliating demotion” by the hands of Donald Trump after the president-elect handed the billionaire a non-official governmental function.
However “the idea that Elon Musk would possibly turn into, in impact, a co-president or the actual president, whereas Donald Trump in impact retires to a lifetime of {golfing}, suffered a big setback tonight when Donald Trump introduced that he would give Elon Musk a job that doesn’t exist and can final, at most, 18 months,” mentioned O’Donnell.
Musk and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy have been introduced by Trump as the brand new heads of a Division of Authorities Effectivity that’s tasked with routing public spending and purple tape. Trump has given them till July 2026 to finish their mission.
That Trump gave Musk a working companion is the “worst of all,” mentioned O’Donnell, noting how Musk additionally needed to share the press assertion.
The “funniest a part of the Trump press launch saying Elon Musk’s appointment to a place that doesn’t exist, wherein he’s being pressured by Donald Trump to work with another person who is aware of nothing in regards to the topic he’s been assigned […] is that they’re each going to be the primary folks kicked out of the Trump authorities” because it states their work “will conclude no later than July 4, 2026,” mentioned O’Donnell.
Trump “now simply would possibly know sufficient about authorities to understand how humiliating that is going to be for Elon Musk,” he added.