Election night photo of the Trump family by Kai Trump posted on X. Melania Trump is missing from the photo, but Elon Musk is present with his son X.

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.

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.

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Silicon Valley does Not Bow to Elon Musk – Pushback Starts

Image by Clark Miller. Source.

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.

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