Summary
The White House confirmed that Elon Musk is working as a “special government employee” under Trump, granting him significant authority to cut federal spending.
Musk has a government email, office space, and access to sensitive Treasury systems. His team abruptly shut down USAID headquarters on Monday.
Musk is consolidating unchecked power, raising legal and ethical concerns, particularly given his federal contracts.
Musk is unpaid and may not be required to disclose financial interests.
Not good enough.
Just because Trump declares him special doesn’t mean he is, or that he should have special privileges, anymore than his moronic cabinet picks can start moving their shit into their offices before being confirmed by the Senate.
And being special doesn’t excuse him from being a nazi.
He’s only special in the short bus sense of special.
No, he’s special in that he’s an entitled narcissist bar any ethics or principles.
Let’s be careful to not throw our differently abled friends under the bus by comparing them to Musk.
After all, most of them are kinder and have more sympathy than Musk.
*empathy
As long as we the people continue to allow it, he is indeed whatever they say he is.
What if donvict says “I HEREBY declare fElon as special” on his own stupid social media platform? Is that super duper Constitutional enough for everyone?
Oh no, this is one of those really fun powers we gave presidents a while back and forgot about. Presidents have a wide ranging authority to temporarily hire people and skip most of the ethics and oversight stuff that comes with normal federal hiring. The limitation is that it’s only good for certain positions, which DOGE, (formerly USDS) is a part of.
They’re proving that “act as if” really does work.