Elon Musk offered his opinion on the Trump administration in an interview shortly after he departed from the White House, despite initially saying he only wanted to talk about

By the end of the month, we’re told, Elon Musk’s quasi-official tenure as the government’s Minister of Demolition will expire, potentially an occasion of great joy if the next phase of Trump 2.0 weren’t even more sinister.

Musk looks like the latest victim of a common Trump-era dynamic: the impossibility of sharing the President’s spotlight.

Critics of longtermism say it appeals to wealthy tech moguls precisely because it adds a sheen of morality to their masters-of-the-universe projects. They also say that the moguls’ ultimate goal is a utopian civilization of humans, biological and robotic, all A.I. enhanced.

Elon Musk is leaving his government role as a top adviser to President Donald Trump after spearheading efforts to reduce and overhaul the federal bureaucracy

Late on Wednesday evening, Elon Musk announced the official end of his short, traumatic tenure as the head of a made-up agency called the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk’s post on X, the social-media network he owns and had sought to weaponize in service of a radical cost-costing assault on the federal government,

He terminated over 100,000 government employees by either forcing them to take buyouts or outright firing them. He is responsible for ending contracts for programs related to climate change, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, environmental protection, international aid, and science research.

Anyway, Musk is leaving, and it’s safe to say no one is throwing him a going-away party in the break room or chipping in on a gift to see him off. That’s probably because, over the course of his four months in Washington, Musk:

Elon Musk is apparently turning his attention away from Washington and back to Tesla. On this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” the hosts unpack what Musk’s pivot means for the future of DOGE.

An X post alleged that Harvard University is discriminating against white men to “increase the proportion of women and minorities” in the university.