Elon Musk has exited the White House—physically, at least.

Donald Trump’s “special government employee” is no longer working within the DOGE offices as he prepares his exit from the Trump administration and focuses more on saving his floundering businesses from failure.

“Instead of meeting with him in person, I’m talking to him on the phone, but it’s the same net effect,” White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles told the New York Post in an interview discussing the Trump administration’s first 100 days.

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    Dude already stole all our data and destroyed every bureau of federal government that was in his way.

    And helped destroy most of the others as well. He doesn’t need to be there in person.

    I want to see these fucking traitors hang.

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    “Instead of meeting with him in person, I’m talking to him on the phone, but it’s the same net effect,” White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles told the New York Post

    So he’s still doing what he’s doing, just working remotely. Despite no other federal employees getting to work remotely.

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        you mean that wasn’t to get around any security systems in place so he could upload data to ‘remote’ servers ‘somewhere’ outside of the government’s control?

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          Since its starlink its probably not for this purpose, but a commercial internet connection really isn’t that uncommon; sometimes its for the TV in the lobby, or free guest WIFI; usually it’s for systems that perform a necessary function, but would be crippled by network restrictions.

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      Well, he’s special! It’s right there in his title! He’s the specialest little employee. Yes he is! Yes he is!

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      Exactly. I’ve written my Senators asking who will be keeping track of his communications. Every day he sends an email, message, or makes a call should count as another day worked.

      I’d urge you all to do the same until we have a confirmed way to keep tabs on him.

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        I’d write my House reps, but…

        My House rep (left). The other one is just as awful, but not in the spotlight as much.

        My senators are old money + age and coal baron who doesn’t pay his bills.

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      Where does musk live on his day to day anyway? Would be a shame if we carried protests in front of his home.

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      yup. starlink might be tanking, too. they’re having to give away hardware and discount monthly rates these days.

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    I thought he works 120 hours per week as he expects from his employees. Loser.

    He could do 40 hours for Tesla, 40 hours for DOGE, and 40 hours for SPACEX. I don’t see any problem with that schedule. Lazy wimp.

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    Elon finally found out about the Trump “touch” and how everything Trump touches turns to shit. Elon is not an innocent in this though.

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        It’s incredible just how dumb he is. Like, dude, just throw daddy’s blood money at these startups and let them do their thing. But no, he has to get involved for ego reasons and absolutely wrecks them in the cringiest way possible.

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          I think you could draw some correlation ratio between his companies’ times of success and his involvement. An inverse ratio.

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          That’s what happens when you have exceptionally low self esteem and endless amount of money.

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    Elon walks into a china shop, destroys everything in sight. Says “oops, better do that over the phone from now on”, walks out again.