Trump administration backtracks from latest Musk storm

[Dulcinea]

(The Hill) The Trump administration on Monday appeared to be quickly retreating from Elon Musk’s demand that all federal workers send an email by the end of the day highlighting their achievements or resign.

The missive from Musk, which echoed a tactic he used during his 2022 takeover of the social platform X, then known as Twitter, led to a chaotic weekend for thousands of federal workers. Allies or Trump picks leading federal agencies, including FBI Director Kash Patel, told their workers to ignore the order and that they would make decisions on their own personnel.

By Monday afternoon, responding to the email was voluntary, according to guidance from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), a clear signal that even within the administration, some saw Musk as having gone too far.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-backtracks-latest-musk-231928192.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_CORE&ncid=crm_19908-1475736-20250226-0&bt_user_id=SiuLJF9rRoyusy2AB9tE%2By%2FsemuLXELjRosNcvdifyqG059ml217qwxZevRKPaKq&bt_ts=1740588158236

[returnee]

1. Oh, yeah...

…raiding the Treasury Dept for personal data, and stopping USAID was fine, but the e-mail thing was too far.

[Beartracks]

2. Department heads may care, but Republicans clearly don't mind having Congressional power usurped...

... by an unelected billionaire bureaucrat.

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[cyclonefence]

3. Like Trump, Elon has the reverse Midas touch

Aside from the real estate fortune he inherited from his father, Donald Trump has never *in his life* initiated a successful business venture without fucking it up. Casinos in Atlantic City? A goddam permit to make money, even without stiff subcontractors (my son works for the upscale flooring company who carpeted both Trump casinos who (the company, not my son) was unable to collect on their bill). Elon started out with a nice inheritance, too, and was fine in tech stuff, but as soon as he took over the wildly successful Twitter, it began to fail in every way possible. He had a very successful electric car business, but managed to piss off the very people who were in a position to buy his cars--lefties with money--leading inevitably toward failure of Tesla (watch it happen). Now he's applying the same tactics he used to destroy Twitter (and Tesla) to our government, of which he has zero understanding.

No wonder these two are such great friends.

[Dem4life1234]

4. This!

Elonia should have sat down, shut up, and kept out of politics with his businesses.

But no, he has to ruin things. Ketoamine....helluva drug.