Foreign Policy According to President Musk

Elon Musk, the billionaire who bankrolled Donald Trump’s successful 2024 run for the White House, has earned the title of Shadow U.S. President by pressuring the president-elect to scuttle government policies and funding that threaten Musk’s personal business interests.

The 53-year-old CEO of X, SpaceX and Tesla, the world’s richest man, claims Trump’s victory gives the incoming Republican administration a mandate to shake up government and politics, appoint other billionaires enriched by government contracts to slash the federal workforce, and to slim down or eliminate whole federal entities, including the Department of Education.

Musk appears to have grown bored with his post-election appointment to the Trump-proclaimed nongovernmental Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, that has no real power to cut perceived waste in government institutions. Any significant reductions in the federal $6.75 trillion budget under scrutiny will need action by Congress before the next deadline for funding the 2025 budget.

America’s most powerful unelected official is now focused on undermining elected foreign leaders in U.S.-allied countries in support of far-right forces more aligned with his and Trump’s authoritarian and anti-alliance sentiments.

https://www.postalley.org/2025/01/08/foreign-policy-according-to-president-musk/?mc_cid=064e3d370f&mc_eid=a0c4847065

Must be the ketamine talking.