by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

Since winning the national elections on November 5th, Elon Musk has been seen together with President-elect Donald Trump in most of his public appearances, leading many in the corporate media to comment about how Musk’s influence over Trump seems to have grown significantly since spending millions of dollars to help get him re-elected.

But an interesting article published on CNBC suggests that Musk’s lingering presence at the Trump estate in Florida is annoying people among those close to Trump.

Has Elon Musk already worn out his welcome with Trump?

You know the old adage, “Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days”?

Well, it’s been a week since Donald Trump was elected as our next president and there are numerous reports that one notable guest at Mar-a-Lago is wearing out his welcome: The world’s richest man, Elon Musk.

If there’s one thing we know about Trump, it’s that he doesn’t love sharing the spotlight.

Two people familiar with the transition now tell NBC News that Musk may be overstaying his welcome in Trump world.

“He’s behaving as if he’s a co-president and making sure everyone knows it,” one of those people said.

More insiders told Politico’s Playbook:

“Musk has become almost a comical distraction, hanging around Mar-a-Lago, sidling into high-level transition meetings and giving unsolicited feedback on Trump’s personnel decisions.”

As one of them said, “Elon is getting a little big for his britches.” (Source.)

Musk followed Trump to Washington D.C. this week, where he joined Trump’s meeting with House Republicans, which prompted Trump to say: “Elon won’t go home. I can’t get rid of him.”

Trump Completely Humiliates Elon Musk in Front of House Republicans

Elon Musk joined Trump on Capitol Hill for a meeting with Republicans—and the president-elect used the opportunity to ridicule the richest man in the world.

Donald Trump is wasting no time making a punch line out of some of his key allies, including Elon Musk.

During his first meeting with Republican lawmakers on the Hill as president-elect, Trump asserted his power over Musk, mocking the tech billionaire for sticking around for so long.

“Elon won’t go home. I can’t get rid of him,” Trump said Wednesday. “Until I don’t like him.”

The world’s richest man has reportedly spent “nearly every single day” of the last week at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, according to CNN.

Musk has been spotted golfing with the president-elect, dining with him and his wife, Melania, and has even been in the room while Trump phones world leaders, hopping on calls with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell argued that Trump’s comments about Musk were an assertion of his dominance, played before a room that has to play along.

“Everyone laughed,” said O’Donnell.

“They laughed that uncomfortable laugh. But they laugh when Donald Trump makes a joke about someone on his team, a joke that everyone knows is true, a joke that paints that person as pathetic, as Donald Trump’s personal sense of superiority demands that he do.”

O’Donnell also suggested that Musk’s new role in the government—co-leading a new agency, the Department of Government Efficiency, otherwise known as “DOGE”—is basically a joke in itself, with Musk’s responsibilities being tantamount to a “fake job” with little more power than that of a lobbyist on K Street. (Source.)

It’s somewhat interesting that Trump said Musk “won’t go home” and not “he won’t go back to work,” since Musk owns several large companies such as Tesla, X, SpaceX and others.

This begs the question, how does this man have so much time on his hands??

As I wrote on Election Day, Musk was on the Joe Rogan show just before the elections, where Musk revealed that he loves to play the online game called “Diablo”, which is a Spanish word that means “Devil”, and was ranked in the Top 20 WORLDWIDE for the highest scores in this game, with only one other American in the top 20.

The top gamers in the world earn $millions in gaming.

Source.

I suspect that this is NOT a hobby for most of these serious gamers, but that it is basically a full-time job, one that can be very profitable, at least for a select few who are among the top players worldwide.

So if someone can claim that they are in the Top 20 of a game that millions of online gamers play worldwide, what does that say about that person and the amount of time he spends online gaming?

I would assume that pretty much everyone reading this article knows of people who are addicted to online gaming just as much as some people are addicted to gambling.

What kind of people are they, if you know them, or know of them?

Are they the type of people who are corporate CEOs, rich doctors, rich lawyers, etc.?

I personally don’t know any gamers who spend that much time online and who are also successful business owners or professionals, because spending so much time online gaming to boast that one is in the top 20 worldwide, would not leave enough time for them to run their businesses or practice their profession successfully.

So this begs the question that I have previously asked about Elon Musk: Is Elon Musk smart, or just rich stupid?

Well with this new revelation he just made yesterday to Joe Rogan about his gaming prowess, I think the answer is clearer now.

Musk did not even invent the Tesla, but bought it from the guys who did, and his SpaceX company has become rich on Government contracts, and the evidence is that he has almost no hands-on management of SpaceX, but he is wealthy enough to buy people who are smart and do all the work. (Full article.)

So with Musk spending so much time following Trump around everywhere for the past several days, I decided to check the leaderboard for Diablo, to see if Musk was still ranked in the Top 20 Worldwide.

It turns out that Musk has dropped out of the Top 20 Worldwide, and fallen all the way down to #43 since Trump won the elections.

Elon! Go home!!! Your ranking as a Top Diablo player worldwide is suffering if you don’t get back to work!!

Silicon Valley does Not Bow to Elon Musk – Pushback Starts

For those of you who do not follow the Tech News like I do, as I earn my living from technology and have watched it all develop since the 1980s, as I am about the same age as people like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, etc., it might surprise you to know that Elon Musk is not all that well-liked in the Silicon Valley crowd, probably because they know he’s not all that smart and is mainly popular because of his wealth.

Far more people among the Silicon Valley billionaires supported Kamala Harris for president, for example.

After Trump won the elections, there were quite a few discussions about what the future holds under a Trump administration, and Elon Musk’s influence.

One of the biggest fears in Silicon Valley with a Trump presidency is his threat to impose a 60% tariff on all goods exported from China, which would be disastrous for Silicon Valley and Big Tech, given how much they are dependent upon China for cheap parts they use for almost everything that is produced by Big Tech.

In an article published by The Information the day after the elections titled: What Trump Could Do First in AI, China and Chips, by Rocket Drew, Drew reported on a teleconference and provided a partial transcript of the call among tech “policy experts.”

One of the questions discussed was: China is a huge market for Apple, and a lot of manufacturing happens in Taiwan and the region. Who are the winners and losers from the next administration in terms of trade?

William Reinsch, a chair in international business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) made some very insightful comments:

Reinsch: It’s hard to say. To the extent that consumer electronics are being imported from China, which I think is a lot, the 60% tariff, if it’s imposed, is going to seriously affect that.

It may not make them uncompetitive, because there may not be viable competitors elsewhere for some of the things in question, but at a minimum, it’ll make the products much more expensive for consumers.

Because unlike what Trump says, these tariffs get passed on. They don’t get swallowed in whole by the manufacturer.

So I think it’s not good news for CTA [the Consumer Technology Association]. Trump’s response to that would be ‘good, then they’ll start manufacturing the United States.’

Maybe that will happen, but that takes a while, because you’re talking about restoring capabilities that are long gone.

A while back, Trump criticized GE for selling its appliance unit to the Chinese, saying ‘we don’t make those things anymore. We should make them in the United States.’

Well, one of our think tank colleagues here in Washington did a paper and said, ‘you want a toaster that’s made in America? It’s $300.’

We are not a low cost manufacturer of a lot of the stuff we’re talking about.

You want to make laptops in the United States? They’re going to be more expensive.

Are people going to buy them because they’re made here?

If you do polling on this question, people will say, in significant percentages, they support Buy America, they support domestic procurement, and then they go to Walmart and buy imports.

There’s a lot of cognitive dissonance in the consumer market.

The smart companies have spent years already thinking about de-risking and trying to get out of their vulnerabilities in their Chinese supply chains, not so much by leaving, but by creating redundant capability somewhere else, which is exactly what Apple’s done in India.

And the smart ones started doing that a long time ago. I think the others will catch on and begin to do it, at which point the tariffs on China aren’t going to make any difference to them. (Source.)

Some were hopeful that Musk could have some influence on Trump’s China policies, given the fact that China is the second largest market for Tesla.

However, Tesla has not produced a new car in China since 2020, and China’s EV cars have become better.

What might be Elon Musk’s hopes about his prospects in China now?

LeVine: China is Tesla’s second biggest market. Tesla relies on those sales for much of its profits, but its sales have been declining, and the reason is that Chinese cars are getting so much better.

Tesla has not created a new vehicle since 2020. Its cars are old, especially if you’re looking at them side by side with Chinese rivals in Shanghai or in Beijing.

So it really needs to update those. It needs to freshen them up. (Source.)

Many in the Silicon Valley crowd don’t think much about Trump or Elon Musk, which is setting up a virtual civil war in Big Tech.

Josh Koehn, reporter at The Information: Trump has been known to play favorites who show him love and show him adulation, and no one has done that more with the campaign than Elon Musk, and no one was more responsible for the ground game of Republican strategy in swing states than America PAC under Elon Musk.

So I think we’re going to see Elon actually have a huge chance to capitalize on this when it comes to AI, when it comes to his other companies.

We are going to see a real fracturing within tech.

I was talking with some of the people who backed the Harris campaign very vocally, including Reid Hoffman, one of the top Democratic donors, and he told me straight up, there is going to be a resistance movement within tech to the Trump Administration.

It’s not everyone that’s going to be lining up to work with them. There are going to be real fractures that continue and persist in the next four years. (Source.)

So this “resistance movement” is now getting started.

Consider the “Weekend Edition” lead article by The Information this weekend:

Making a Beautiful, Tesla-Beating Electric Car Is a Frustrating Business

Peter Rawlinson’s Lucid Motors arguably makes the world’s best-engineered EVs. He hopes patience, Saudi money and surprisingly contrary thinking about batteries will get him into a serious race with his old boss, Elon Musk.

The other evening, a stranger told Lucid Motors CEO Peter Rawlinson that if he ever came across an electric vehicle that would go 500 miles on a charge, he’d buy it.

“And I said, ‘That’s Lucid Air!’” Rawlinson recalls, referring to his company’s sleek sedan.

“He said, ‘What? How long has that been in production?’ I said, ‘Two and a half years.’”

He paused. “The world doesn’t know that two and a half years ago, we did an electric car with 520 miles.”

Rawlinson and I are talking at a noisy Virginia steakhouse over a dinner that would stretch more than two hours.

A 67-year-old Briton, he is earnest, soft-spoken—and volubly frustrated: Eight years ago, he set out to make the finest and most advanced EV in the world, one as elegant as a top-of-the-line Mercedes Benz and superior technologically to Tesla’s game-changing Model S, whose development he led as chief vehicle engineer.

Rawlinson argues that Lucid’s technological prowess—which surprisingly eschews the industry’s focus on battery development—should give it bragging rights as America’s true U.S. EV champion, while his former boss, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has become “distracted” by politics, robots and artificial intelligence.

If he’s right, Rawlinson has reached this pinnacle at a superlatively challenging moment for the entire EV industry. (Source.)

And here is the the founder of the world’s biggest battery company talking about a recent conversation he had with Elon Musk that made him say: “He doesn’t know how to make a battery.”

This article was just published last week.

‘We had a very big debate, and I showed him. He was silent. He doesn’t know how to make a battery’: The founder of the world’s biggest battery company apparently had a lesson or two to give Elon Musk

Have you ever had one of those moments where, mid-debate, you suddenly realise you’ve lost the argument? If you’re anything like me, you’ll buy your editor another drink and pretend it was a draw.

If you’re Elon Musk, however, and you’re standing in a factory debating the merits of your battery tech with the founder of the biggest EV battery maker in the world, I imagine it’s a bit more toe-curling.

Musk appears to have found himself in just such a situation back in April, when he visited Robin Zeng at the CATL facility in Beijing (via Reuters).

According to Zeng, he told Musk that his bet on the cylindrical battery found in the Cybertruck, the 4680, “is going to fail and never be successful.”

“We had a very big debate, and I showed him,” Zeng said.

“He was silent. He doesn’t know how to make a battery. It’s about electrochemistry.”

Zeng didn’t stop there, either. According to the company founder, he then moved on to question Musk’s approach to product timelines.

“His problem is overpromising,” Zeng said. “I talked to him. Maybe something needs five years. But he says two years. I definitely asked him why. He told me he wanted to push people.

“He probably himself thinks it needs five years, but if you believe him when he says two years, you will be in big trouble.” (Source: PCGamer.com)

As I wrote back on Election Day, when Musk stated the day before the elections: “Vote like your life depends upon it!”, I am quite sure he meant: “Vote like MY life depends upon it!”

Because I seriously doubt that Elon Musk can compete in the marketplace where his products actually have to work and do the things he says they are going to do.

So his only option is to revert back to what got him to where he is today as the current world’s richest billionaire, and that is get governments to adopt his ideas and then force the public to adopt them as well.

But if he is wearing out his welcome with the Trump administration less than two weeks after the elections, how probable is that going to be?

Don’t listen to the MAGA crowd and their adoration of Elon Musk. They think that the only reason others don’t like Elon Musk is because they don’t like “free speech” and that Musk is the “champion of free speech.”

And that was all by design when Musk purchased Twitter, reinstated all the accounts of the conservatives, and then began to monitor and track them so he could adopt their talking points and help get his man into office to try and maintain his wealth.

Time will tell if his plan worked or not, because the only thing Elon Musk is “champion” of, is socialism, and using the government to keep him rich.

It didn’t work in China, so now he’s trying it here in the U.S. with Trump.

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