World News: Trump and Elon Musk’s Bitter Breakup

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Category: World News - Europe

Published on Tuesday, 27 May 2025 09:52

Written by Olivier Longhi

By leaving his position as an adviser to DOGE, Elon Musk is confirming the failure of Donald Trump's radical and populist policies, who are reluctant to keep a golden boy who has become an embarrassment at his side.

He almost single-handedly embodied triumphant Trumpism, between arrogance and excess, excesses and provocations of all kinds. Elon Musk has decided to leave his position as an advisor at DOGE, The Department of Government Efficiency. A lightning stint in the federal administration that will only go down in history for the stunts that made it up, and which ended in failure.

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The question is whether the failure is relative or bitter. The most optimistic will evoke a relative failure, explaining that the cumbersome administrative apparatus prevents any large-scale reforms; the most pessimistic will explain that the method of the man who stood next to Donald Trump in the Oval Office, America great again cap firmly screwed on his head, was aggressive, tinged with a populism such that he exuded all the intrinsic dangerousness that he wanted to exploit.

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But Elon Musk's departure is also an expression of the limits of the Trump method, the one that clashes with reality which, like others, is proving complicated to reform because it is rooted in its own history and its own unique mechanisms.

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Elon Musk's failure also highlights the extent to which verbal violence and heavy-handed practices, aimed here at freeing and relieving the federal administration from the influence of a so-called and fantasized deep state, the root of imaginary evils, are not compatible with the management of a state, whatever it may be.

Between unhealthy demagoguery and assumed populism, Elon Musk wanted to spearhead Trump's dream America, he the tycoon of cars and new technologies, haloed with resounding success. The fall is all the more heavy and cruel because it is more the reality of a complex world that precipitated its fall than the measures announced with brutal effects but a posteriori to be put into perspective as they proved to be ineffective and absurd to be ultimately rejected by clear-sighted and conscious judges.

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Elon Musk will therefore have been the shooting star of Donald Trump's term in office, reluctant to retain a man who has become more of a burden than an asset while the sales of Tesla, the South African's emblematic cars, are collapsing, further tarnishing his image as a modern golden boy.

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Bio: Olivier Longhi has extensive experience in European history. A seasoned journalist with fifteen years of experience, he is currently a professor of history and geography in the Toulouse region of France. He has held a variety of publishing positions, including Head of Agency and Chief of Publishing. A journalist and recognized blogger, editor, and editorial project manager, he has trained and managed editorial teams, worked as a journalist for various local radio stations, was a press and publishing consultant, and was a communications consultant.