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Chapter 1: What happened to Elon Musk in the White House?
Donald Trump looks completely weak next to Elon Musk during a recent press conference that Donald Trump held in the Oval Office. with some AI tech bros like Sam Altman and others, and they announced this project called Stargate, where they claim they were investing $500 billion into America. Elon Musk said it was all BS, it was phony, it was fraud.
They don't even have anywhere close to $500 billion, maybe $10 billion dripping wet. And it was all just a scheme to try to get close to Donald Trump. Elon Musk was also posting photos of crack and crack pipes and suggesting that the number $500 billion of investment dollars into the United States that these other tech bros were announcing with Donald Trump, it came from smoking crack pipes.
Elon Musk has also been in a billion-dollar lawsuit with Sam Altman. There's a lot of other dysfunction we've been talking about at Doge. Vivek Ramaswamy, the other co-leader of Doge, wore his welcome. Elon Musk pushed him out, but by Vivek Ramaswamy. That was after Vivek.
Chapter 2: Who is Susan Wiles and what is her role?
And by the way, Elon echoed this as well, said that the American STEM worker, science, technology, engineering, mathematic workers are just inherently dumber than those from India. They were saying that American culture is dumb, corrosive, mediocre at best, and Americans aren't capable of doing American jobs. Thus, we need labor from India is what they were saying.
We need to expand the H-1B visa program. Donald Trump echoed that sentiment and said, that's absolutely what we need. But that was obviously a betrayal of Donald Trump's campaign promises. William McGinley, the key lawyer of Doge, their general counsel, their legal muscle, he resigned at the end of last week as well. Total dysfunction. Also, Elon Musk admitted they would not be able to cut
Chapter 3: What controversy surrounds Elon Musk's influence?
$2 trillion, he said maybe $1 trillion at best. And all Elon Musk has really talked about in terms of making cuts is getting rid of the penny. Yes, getting rid of the currency, the penny, which would maybe make a dent of about 0.02% of getting $1 trillion reduced. So it wouldn't have any impact at all. whatsoever.
Also, Steve Bannon's faction of MAGA, they've been saying, we don't want Elon Musk anywhere near the White House. Get him out, Susan Wiles. And Elon Musk kind of representing that tech bro faction. It should also be noted, right, that Elon Musk really bought Donald Trump the White House. I mean, Elon Musk was the main funder of the campaign.
Chapter 4: Why is there dysfunction within the Trump administration?
Elon Musk ran all of these very scammy political action committees. Like one was like the Ruth Bader Ginsburg PAC, and it tried to act like Donald Trump was for women's reproductive rights, which is absolutely BS. But they ran a lot of kind of covert messaging to try to manipulate American people.
Also, Elon Musk was just quite literally paying people to sign up to vote like $100 and holding raffles. You can get a million dollars. If you signed up to vote, people hate Elon Musk. People hate Donald Trump right now. Trump's approval, one of the lowest ever heading into the inauguration. Donald Trump's policies, very, very much Americans disapprove of them.
Elon Musk's approval is about 16 points underwater. Only 29% of Americans, according to the latest Associated Press poll, actually approve of Doge. 12% of Americans think it's a good idea for billionaires to be advising Donald Trump. These are very bad statistics, and the Wall Street Journal numbers also echo this. Let's go back to that article right now from the Daily Mail.
Trump's ice maiden chief of staff, again, her name is Susan Wiles, she has a brutal takedown of Elon Musk as she refuses to give him a West Wing office. and issues a stark warning over being co-president.
Donald Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, has issued a brutal takedown of Musk as she refuses to grant him an office in the West Wing, as he was previously promised and as he was moving into that West Wing office. Much has been made of the billionaire status as first buddy as he serves as chairman of the Doge sitting in the Oval Office as Trump signs bills.
I mean, he's right there next to Trump as Trump's been signing his executive orders. But he also causes controversy and has become an easy target of Democrats who have jokingly referred to him as the co-president. That's apparently getting under Donald Trump's skin that people think Trump is basically working for Elon Musk.
Susan Wiles, who's a 67-year-old veteran of GOP politics, saw her first victory on Trump's first days in office when she said that she would not allow, she put her foot down, I know that you promised Musk an office in the West Wing. He's not going to have an office in the West Wing. We're kicking him out, she said.
Musk was reportedly pushing for his office to just be feet away from the Oval Office. It then talks about how Susan Wiles also made the reporting structure that Elon Musk has to report to her and he doesn't speak to Donald Trump directly, although Elon Musk probably never even viewed what he was doing as reporting up. He viewed Donald Trump as basically a co-president or as his subservient.
Experts believe Wiles, who ran Trump's 2016 and 2020 Florida campaigns, successfully has what it takes. Who ran Trump's campaign has been asserting her strength here. She has an abundance of charm and she'll need every bit of it to survive this job, said Chris Whipple. The article goes on to say temperament is actually an underrated quality among White House chief of staff.
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Chapter 5: How does public opinion view Elon Musk and Trump?
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By the way, while all of this drama is going on, most people are just basically asking, what about lower grocery prices? What about, why are you going to lower prices? You're going to make housing more affordable. What about jobs? This is what you said you were going to do and you're not doing any of it at all.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Musk’s actions on Trump’s presidency?
Oh, by the way, one of the things that Steve Bannon said about Elon Musk as well is he said that Elon Musk is one of the most racist individuals. Here's the direct quote. He's a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. He should go back to South Africa. Why do we have South Africans, the most racist people on earth, white South Africans making any comments at all on what goes on in the United States?
And when Bannon's saying that you are incredibly racist, that says a lot. There you have it, folks. Lots of drama in the White House. Chaos. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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