Elon Musk's TIME Magazine Cover has Everybody Saying the very Same Thing
Elon Musk beautifying the cover of Time Magazine could spell catastrophe for the DOGE-running tech billionaire.
Time's latest concern shows Musk sitting behind the Resolute Desk - where President Donald Trump should be positioned - in the Oval Office.
' No,' Trump initially responded in the Oval Office Friday alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba when asked if he had a reaction to Musk's cover.
After a long pause, he then sarcastically replied: 'Is Time Magazine still in organization? I didn't even know that.'
He included: 'Elon is doing a fantastic task. He's finding significant scams and corruption and waste,' the president included, pointing to the work the billionaire has done collapsing USAID. 'He's got a personnel that's fantastic. He's wished to do this for a long time.'
Trump had actually touted being named Time's Person of the Year himself in 2015.
In February of 2017, Time Magazine put White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon on the cover and asked the concern: 'Is Steve Bannon the 2nd most effective man in the world?'
At the time, Bannon was labeled 'The Great Manipulator.'
In April 2017, The New York Times reported that Trump was irritated by that cover, telling people 'that does not simply happen,' a term the president used when speaking about underlings overshadowing him.
Bannon was out in August of that year.
Time Magazine's newest cover reveals Elon Musk sitting in President Donald Trump's location behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office
President Donald Trump is recorded seated behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office - in a comparable position where Elon Musk is portrayed on the new Time magazine cover
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Now, 8 years later on, Musk's cover is much more provocative.
A press reporter questioning Trump in the Oval Office Friday even explained that Musk was sitting behind 'your Resolute Desk.'
Musk, the wealthiest individual on earth, has received just as much attention as Trump since the Republican was sworn back in on January 20.
DOGE's early actions - to take a wrecking ball to USAID, are narrated in Time's piece about the billionaire's arrival in Washington.
Government employees at the Department of Homeland Security informed the publication how they're presuming the 'protective crouch' as they wait for DOGE to show up.
In the after-effects of Time's cover release, Musk was making his own moves.
'I love @realdonaldtrump as much as a straight man can like another man,' he proclaimed on X, the platform he obtained, on Friday early morning.
During the Friday afternoon press conference with Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Fox News' Peter Doocy began the questioning by asking Trump what the first girl thought of Musk's declaration.
'Oh I believe she'll be OK with it, in some way,' Trump said.
In another Friday early morning post, Musk cheered that Trump was the 'Greatest president ever!'
Musk highlighted a post where Trump said he was going to end the 'outrageous Biden push for Paper Straws, which do not work.'
'BACK TO PLASTIC!' Trump wrote.
Musk became an ardent MAGA fan in July, when Trump survived an assassination effort at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
A February 2017 Time cover apparently frustrated Trump when it showcased then Chief White House Strategist Steve Bannon, identifying him 'The Great Manipulator'
DAMAGE CONTROL? On Friday early morning Elon Musk said that he loved President Donald Trump 'as much as a straight man can enjoy another guy'
Minutes before he labeled Trump the 'Greatest ever!' as the Republican is poised to sign an executive order barring paper straws
The billionaire SpaceX, Tesla and X manager backed Trump and then raked millions into the Republican's reelection effort over Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris.
In the run-up to the inauguration Musk rarely left Trump's side - even renting a $2,000-a-night cottage at Mar-a-Lago.
During this time period, Vivek Ramaswamy - who has already exited as the co-leader of DOGE - and in turn Musk, started an online war with Bannon and other MAGA traditionalists over the usage of H1-B visas.
Trump appeared to take the tech business owners' side.
Musk stirred up some more difficulty when he trashed the AI job Stargate, pipewiki.org which Trump revealed from the White House on January 21, simply one day after inauguration.
The DOGE leader isn't a fan of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, among the three tech leaders included in the $500 billion job.
A Republican near to the White House informed Politico that some Trump staff were 'furious' at Musk for torching Stargate online.
'It's clear he has actually abused the proximity to the president,' the Trump ally said. 'The problem is the president doesn't have any leverage over him and Elon offers no f *** s.'
Trump was then inquired about it.
'He hates among the people in the offer,' the president shrugged.
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