Donald Trump is definitely not wasting any time to make a punch line out of some of his key allies, including Elon Musk. During his first meeting with Republican lawmakers on the Hill as president-elect, Trump asserted his power over Musk, mocking the tech billionaire for sticking around for way too long. “Elon won’t go home. I can’t get rid of him” he said on Wednesday, adding “until I don’t like him.”
The world’s richest man reportedly spent “every single day” of the last week at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, according to CNN. Musk has also been spotted golfing with the president-elect, as well as dining with him and his wife, Melania.
In fact, he has been in the room while Trump carried on phone conversations with world leaders, hopping on various calls with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell argued as well that Trump’s comments about Musk were basically an assertion of his dominance, played before a room that was forced to play along.
“Everyone laughed,” as O’Donnell recalled. “They laughed that uncomfortable laugh, you know.
However, they laugh when Donald Trump makes a joke about someone on his team, a joke that everyone knows might be true, a joke that paints that person as being pathetic, as Donald Trump’s personal sense of superiority demands that he do.”
