Trump stressed that he wants to keep good people in government and not to eject capable federal workers en masse.

But his administration has in recent weeks fired tens of thousands of federal workers across numerous agencies in a series of blanket terminations. A federal judge and the chair of a federal civil service board have both concluded that the terminations were not tied to performance issues - and may have violated civil service laws.

“As the Secretaries learn about, and understand, the people working for the various Departments, they can be very precise as to who will remain, and who will go,” he wrote. “We say the ‘scalpel’ rather than the ‘hatchet.’ The combination of them, Elon, DOGE, and other great people will be able to do things at a historic level.”

GGD wrote:

“As the Secretaries learn about, and understand, the people working for the various Departments, they can be very precise as to who will remain, and who will go,” he wrote. “We say the ‘scalpel’ rather than the ‘hatchet.’ The combination of them, Elon, DOGE, and other great people will be able to do things at a historic level.”

What hatchet, Musk pretty clearly viewed it as a chainsaw.

But all of this might just be his way of reminding Musk that the $250 Million before the election was only a deposit, and regular payments are needed to keep him around.

And this is one case where I view Trump as being smarter than Musk, and I still view Trump as a Fucking Moron™

vision63 wrote:
One day, they'll probably be adversaries.