Opinion: Will Trump’s Doge eat Elon Musk for dinner?

Doge is an acronym for the Department of Efficiency of the United States government. Mental in the controversy, it was created with so much arrogance by President Donald Trump at the beginning of the second term that was not in a row of 20 January. Doge is identical to Elon Musk. As president, it is Trump’s right to create a new government department, but he shares this power with the US Congress [parliament] which usually gives institutions like that legal teeth through laws. The President appointed department heads with several candidates who needed filtering and confirmation by the Senate, the Legislative Basic Room which was generally considered. The department is part of the government executive branch, and is responsible for implementing certain policies and programs. The leading department in the US federal government including the Department of Foreign Affairs is responsible for foreign policy and international relations; Department of Defense for National Defense and Military Operations; Ministry of Education for Educational Policies and Programs [Trump says he will scrap it, anyway]; And, the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services that are charged with health services and social services. Although the executive and legislative branches share in responsibility in creating departments, only the congress has the authority to abolish the department through law. However, the president can rearrange or combine departments through executive orders even though it is subject to congress supervision. But all this fantastic arrangement is supported by law in some cases and conventions in other cases is before Donald Trump’s second arrival.

Some of the processes and conventions that have been taken as given have been casually canceled by the new sheriff in the city. Trump may have been brave by the fact that when he was beyond power and office, and faced a trial for some of the alleged mistakes in his first incarnation as president, the US Supreme Court [SCOTUS] decided that a president could not be tried for any violations he might do during his official assignment. The controversial decision by Scotus seems to fly before the American constitution which establishes equality before the law. The constitution does not explicitly state that ‘no one is above the law’, but contains the principles that imply equality under the law, until Scotus decides the opposite in 2024. Before that it was widely believed that the constitution was based on the rule of law, which means that all people, including government officials, were subject to law. The equivalent protection clause has determined that no country will ‘deny anyone in its jurisdiction of the same protection against the law’. And this clause has been interpreted means that individuals must be treated equally based on law. In addition, the Check system and Grundnorm balance are allegedly designed to ensure that no US government branches have absolute strength. The aim is to help curb the abuse of authority. So, even though the phrase that ‘no one is above the law’ is not directly stated in the constitution, it is a fundamental principle of 249 years old American democracy, to the point of not being because Trump.

Doge was created as a US government department by Trump on January 20 through executive orders. It was Trump’s first day in the office and it was one of more than the alleged 100 executive orders signed by the president that day. Some American presidential observers claim that the action had never happened before. Billionaire Tech, who is the owner of Tesla Electronic Company, and Spacex, among others, Elon Musk, tapped to lead a new agent. The opponents describe Musk as the person who bought the presidency for Trump with his injection of nearly $ 300 million into Trump’s campaign. He is the initial supporter of victory for the President. He stands out in stepping on him in the campaign path. He almost lived with Trump in Mar-a-lago on weeks before the presidential election on November 5, 2024. He had a front row seat at Trump’s inauguration on January 20. And also live with Trump in the White House on days after the inauguration. He attended a cabinet meeting while bromance took place. Musk is an advisor who does not repent for small government and restrain the alleged waste in the public sector. He contacted subsidies but ironically his business ranked very high in receiving subsidies from the government. So in Trump’s eyes, Elon Musk is an unmatched person for the work of returning the government, or with words they cut ‘fraud, waste, and harassment’ in government operations. So the doge under the musk is mandated to reduce public expenditure by reviewing government contracts, eliminating unnecessary expenses, and cutting bureaucracy bureaucracy; To detect fraud by identifying and preventing fraud activities in federal spending, ensuring transparency and accountability; To streamline the process through the spread of artificial intelligence and technology that arises to automate and speed up the administrative process; And, to increase productivity by restructuring federal institutions to ensure higher productivity and transparency. To criticize the only ‘achievement’ of Musk in his work for 130 days in government is to take and hold a saw on public events to dramatize how he intends to handle lasting and deadly blows for the US Federal Government bureaucracy. It is a booming spectacle. By the way, Trump employs Musk as a special advisor to avoid its existence to be filtered by the Senate. It is feared that it will be a highly debated screening that the narrow majority of the ruling Republican party may not save him. Musk is very poisonous for some politicians across the hallway.

In a short time 130 days Musk as a special government employee ended and he had to resign. Even his departure is as controversial as the entry. When their quarrel began to boil Trump said he was fired but Musk replied that the president lied. A few days after Elon Musk began to attack what is called ‘a big’ big bill that summarizes the main materials of his president. Musk calls the budget bill as ‘disgusting kicks’, ‘really crazy’, ‘filled with pigs’, and ‘destructive’. He said it was a reversal of his job [Musk] I think he has been tired with Doge. Some are very at odds between Trump and Musk. Musk said that the bill would bend the debt that had floated around $ 37 trillion. But Trump said that the musk’s grouse was because the bill would cut subsidies for Tesla, Elon Musk’s signature company. Musk threatened that he would ensure the defeat of every member of parliament who chose to support the ratification of the bill to be a law during the midst of semester in November 2026 He even suggested that Trump must be impeached and that Trump’s name displays striking in the Jeffrey Epstein file/cassette which is the reasons for the Republican party refusing to release the file. Epstein is Trump’s friend. He is a sex and pedophile smuggler who is punished. He died in prison in 2019. Musk then walked back some of his accusations against Trump but was too late. Trump trembled. He said that Doge, the same doge as the one used by Musk to terrorize others, might be released to the Musk and his business because of the alleged ‘fraud, waste, and harassment’. And then determining. President Trump said that Musk, a naturalized American citizen, could be deported to South Africa. So the people who started the American presidency as the ‘first friend’ gradually became the ‘first monster’ or ‘first enemy’. The one blinked first.

This will be difficult to know. Trump as US president is the most powerful person in the world. Musk, a technology billionaire, is the richest person in the world. No one else was able to lose around $ 140 billion in one trading day last month in the assessment of one of his companies in the stock market, and around $ 37 billion in his personal wealth and still remains the richest person in the world. The transfer of Trump-Musk might be a case of two fighting elephants. Impossible. In this fight no one can get out of him without being knitted. Trump may have the power ‘to be done and canceled’ as we said here in Nigeria when talking about someone with unmatched power, but Musk is the heart of the power of the American global economy. The largest factory in Tesla outside the US is in China, a country that has been projected to depose America as number one in the global economic ranking. And China helps trigger ranks between Trump and Musk. This is also dating and submitting offers to Musk and its business if the US becomes an antagonist and is not accommodation. Trump may not be rational, selfish, unconventional and unpredictable, but he certainly knows where he has to draw a line for the overall interests of the US. He will not hand over any profits on a plate to China, a mortal rival in the war for global supremacy. This is a man with a big ego. But they will stay because they have so many losses if their uncontrolled spirals. However, staying at this time will not prevent them from quarrels again. Quick. And maybe in the entire president Donald J. Trump in the next three and a half years. American party regulation by Musk to rival the system of two traditional parties in As-Democrat and Republican will not make prospects for friction in the future better. Indeed, Musk could have opened several fields of battle against traditional and professional politicians in the US. That can prove the heel of Achilles for him. For more than 150 years there was no third political party that produced the President of the United States. Maybe it will not change regardless of Elon Musk’s great wealth, and what seems to be an American taste for a change.

Author: Ugo onuoha

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