The richest man in the world, a naturalized American since 2002, Elon Musk, owner of many prestigious companies such as Space X, Tesla, Neuralink, the person who changed Twitter to X, wished for the stability of the civil service and will lead the new Trump administration, along with Vivek Ramaswamy , Department for Government Efficiency, acronym DOGE. In a statement, the newly elected US President Trump will point out that together "these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for his administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, reduce redundant regulations, reduce wasteful costs and restructure federal agencies".
Musk's partner will be the American biotech mogul Ramaswamy, who achieved financial success through his own pharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences, and his popularity was brought by the fight against woke ideology, covidism, climateism and similar -isms, which Vivek, an American of Indian origin, does not like at all . Deciding to capitalize on his public presence, Ramaswamy ventured into the presidential race as the Republican candidate, entering the political mainstream with bombastic ideas - he wanted to send the army to Mexico, raise the voting age to 25, and planned to cut the administration by some 75%, but later withdrew, humbly and self-deprecatingly, and expressed full support for Donald Trump himself.
His senior partner in the revolution of the American administration is the eccentric billionaire Elon Musk, who, despite many biographies and psychoanalytical, political and other analyzes of his character and work, is quite difficult to define unambiguously. But, as is often the custom, the analysis of Musk starts from early childhood. He was born a little over half a century ago in Pretoria, South Africa, and from a young age showed a racial talent for programming and technology. Biographers mention how he cashed in on his own talent at the tender age of twelve, selling a video game he developed himself. If this early business episode testifies to Musk's talent, another one reflects his attitude towards social realities. At the age of sixteen, after receiving Canadian citizenship, he left his native country, as he did not want to serve in the military, which was mandatory at the time and reflected the country's apartheid system, with which Musk did not agree. At the same time, he was exposed to bullying by his peers, so that on one occasion he ended up in the hospital with numerous fractures, and his father - with whom he had a complex relationship, did not show much desire to comfort him but told him, somewhat spartanly, that he had to toughen up .
Musk's entrepreneurial genius is revolutionary, and no matter what type of business he was involved in, he always created added value: the first company Zip2 revolutionized access to information from business directories, PayPal innovated online payment methods, SpaceX, in turn, the space industry, messed up the accounts of the traditional auto industry with Tesla and electric cars.
When he bought Twitter, he set himself the goal of expanding freedom of speech, which in practice led to the rise of the most idiosyncratic views, political and otherwise, often based in some of the ideas from the traditional right spectrum. Many users have been forced to migrate to alternative platforms, but Musk himself from an investment of 44 billion dollars - that's how much the controlling package of Twitter came out in the end, got a lot: he will use the new platform X as a megaphone for his views, insults, stereotypes, and Donald He restored Trump's account, which was suspended when his supporters attempted a coup on Capitol Hill. It seems that with this action by Musk, relations with Trump are directed in a more positive direction, although they have had a couple of conflicting episodes in the past. They previously used different terms, but it seems that some secret thread connected them in the end: critics will say that it is a mania for protagonism that is evident in both, and the shameless dissemination of disinformation and the authoritarian way of leadership are not to be ignored; those who interpret Elon and Donald's relationship more benignly point out that celebrity politics connected them, show business united them, and the desire for power completely united them.
In his victory speech, Trump praised Musk as a super-genius and visionary, and between the lines it was possible to conclude that he also praised Elon as the main financier, who injected the maximum amount allowed by law of about 75 million dollars - some mentioned even higher amounts, to Donald's campaign. A profitable investment, since only a few days after the election, Musk's fortune, listed on the stock exchange, increased by about 26,5 billion dollars, financial analysts calculated, with a tendency for further growth.
While he is flourishing in the private sector, Musk's task in the Trump administration will be to cut costs, increase productivity, optimize work processes and propose drastic reforms. Ambitious goals seem to be borrowed from some script of organizational management - it is the language of neoliberalism, quite predictable - which Musk, after a deep analysis, will try to apply in the American administration with the aim of optimizing the state apparatus.
Whether the charismatic Musk will revolutionize the American bureaucratic apparatus or whether he will introduce drastic changes in the form of further deregulations that will favor billionaires like himself, at the expense of the already fragile American social system - remains unclear. But one thing is certain: the politics we are used to, static, bureaucratized and somewhat boring, with the new Trump administration powered by Musk's space drive, will delight one part of the public, while in another it will cause fears of political Armageddon.
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