The Trajectory of Unique relationship between Donald Trump and Elon Musk

The Tesla CEO will focus on his business but can return to Oval office any time

- BY T N ASHOK

Elon Musk, the $250 million funder of Donald Trump's election campaign in 2024 that brought the Republican maverick back into the White House for a 2nd non-consecutive term, bid adieu to the White House, leaving as a bruised administrator who could not achieve the “Mission Impossible” unlike Ethan Hunt, the protagonist of the film of the same name.

He stood next to Trump at the Oval office of the White House said he was leaving the White House having completed the task as the DOGE administrator that saw tens of thousands of government employees lose their jobs that the GOP led regime of Trump considered redundant and was a drain on the exchequer causing a deficit in the budget.

Musk achieved what he wanted, sacked thousands of employees. Saved billions in government expenditure by eliminating jobs, but still nowhere near the $3 trillion target , and in tandem Trump did not achieve the revenues to be earned in the budget to capitalize or consolidate on the gains achieved by Musk.

Steve Bannon, a close advisor of Trump, said thus "He came, He saw, and he folded up". That's an apt description of the abrupt departure of Musk, who wanted to decimate the bureaucracy in Washington DC.

He stood next to Trump at the Oval office. His son nose picking son was not there this time. Nor was his son seated on the top of Musk's shoulders. Musk was alone and the physical proximity was also not the same but more distant. The body language said it all, Musk was leaving as a dissatisfied man.

The popular adage that even the best of friends has to part sometime or the other was very much in evidence. The time had come for Musk to part with Trump as his bromance or money-romance-honeymoon with the US President was over.