we thought that maybe Elon Musk would have effectively no power within the Trump Administration or the Trump orbit how did this happen so quickly the quickest answer I have is something I was texting about with a trump person yesterday afternoon this is a trump Affiliated person who has always been kind of skeptical of the whole Doge thing because it’s not really a government department and they’re not going to have formal government Authority but what this person said to me was like look this is what they’re actually going to be good at publicly shaming members of Congress getting them off of a position basically just using the power of the platform that musk has um and the fact that they can sort of speak as such close allies of trump that you kind of are worried about getting crosswise with Maga if you don’t do what Elon is telling you to do and I think that’s going to be at least in the short term that seems to be the sort of flex that he has available to him and this first attempt to use it has worked resoundingly well the main thing that I think everyone needs to know is this something that musk was doing at Trump’s behest is this something alternatively where he went rogue and got way out ahead of trump and Trump is now seeing that it’s to his advantage to kind of go in the direction where musk was already rowing