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In no time, Elon Musk opposed the government’s AI push and angered people in the White House.
Donald Trump’s former communications director sees an end to the Tesla founder’s time in the heat.
– He is already spent, says Anthony Scaramucci.
The words come from a man who knows what they mean. Financier and lawyer Anthony Scaramucci, 61, was communications director for just 11 days in the summer of 2017. He was fired by Trump after speaking ill of White House colleagues in an interview he thought was off the record.
Since then, Scaramucci has grown into one of Trump’s strongest critics, and in the last two elections he stood behind both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Now he has a prediction about how long the wealthy founder of Tesla and Space X will remain at Trump’s side.
– Elon Musk will survive a year. He is good for 250-400 billion dollars and Trump is a little afraid of him so yes, he will last longer than others. But he is already spent, says Anthony Scaramucci in a recent podcast from Politico as Newsweek references.
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full screenAnthony Scaramucci. Photo: Ariel Schalit / AP
“What shall we do?”
Like several other critics, the former communications manager also highlights the risk of conflicts of interest when Elon Musk gains political influence.
– He runs two companies, three companies – TwitterinfocloseTwitterRenamed X by Musk., Tesla and Space X. What shall we do? Should we have CEOs influencing government policy to benefit their companies inside the White House? Is that what we’re doing?
Elon Musk backed Trump in the election and la big money on getting him elected.
Now he leads a group called “Doge” to cut federal spending. When it was presented in November, it was said that Musk would act from the outside, but in one of his first presidential orders, Trump decided that “Doge” will be given formal status in the government.
18 hour attack
However, it only took a few days after Trump’s inauguration before Musk openly went against another of Trump’s first initiatives – the AI venture “Stargate”. The project involves the companies Open AI, Softbank and Oracle, which with the government’s help will invest the equivalent of SEK 5,400 billion during Trump’s four-year term.
Musk tweeted that the companies lack the money and went on 18 hours of repeated attacks on his nemesis Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI.
When asked if Musk’s attacks worried him, Trump replied:
– No, it doesn’t. He hates one of the people involved in the deal.
However, according to Politico, it was several of his closest advisers and allies “furious” at Musk.
– It is clear that he has abused his proximity to the president, says an informant close to Trump to the newspaper.
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full screen Musk’s time in the heat may soon be over. Photo: Mike Stewart/AP
The row over Stargate is not the only issue where Musk is on a collision course with the Trump sphere.
At the end of December, he was sawn by several Maga profiles when he promoted the American work visa H-1B, which is issued in limited numbers to foreign specialists. Critics included Trump’s former chief adviser Steve Bannon and far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer.
Accusing Musk of censorship
In a tweet she wrote, according to Newsweekthat executives like Musk are “throwing money around at Mar-a-Lago to try to buy influence in the White House.” She accused them of wanting to “control tech policy, limit regulations against China and control immigration.”
On Wednesday, Laura Loomer also claimed that Musk censored her account on X:
“I represent many people within Maga and reveal many important news. It is outrageous and un-American that a TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL is deliberately trying to disrupt my livelihood by suspending my subscriptions and secretly closing my account. This gross vindictive censorship must stop. The attack on President Trump’s voter base MUST STOP NOW!”.