Lawrence O’Donnell flipped the script on Donald Trump’s appointment of Elon Musk to the not-yet-officially-existent Department of Government Efficiency, with the bitterly anti-Trump MSNBC anchor calling it not a promotion – but a “humiliating demotion” for the X owner and Tesla CEO.
“Donald Trump announced he would give Elon Musk a job that does not exist and will last, at most, 18 months,” O’Donnell said Tuesday night.” Worst of all, Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, was assigned a working partner who, like Musk, has never worked in government before: Vivek Ramaswamy, who isn’t even a billionaire.”
O’Donnell didn’t clarify why Ramaswamy’s relative wealth was relevant, but also mocked Musk for not getting “his own press release from Donald Trump,” noting that he had to “share” it with the millionaire.