MSNBC’s host of All In, Chris Hayes, acquired the info mistaken on Thursday as he criticized Elon Musk, who was making ready to make his method out of workplace. As a particular authorities worker, Musk was granted solely 130 days to steer DOGE in rooting out waste and corruption throughout the authorities. In that point, Musk has reduce an estimated $175 billion in pointless spending throughout the board. Nonetheless, Hayes asserted that Musk’s step down had nothing to do with the expiration of his work interval, however fairly being a results of the truth that “Nobody likes the man.”
Hayes huffed that, “Earlier this month, The Atlantic … quotes the Common Counsel for the American Federation of Authorities Staff as saying, quote, ‘We kicked him out of city. If he had stayed within the shadows and accomplished these things, who is aware of how dangerous it will have been? However nobody likes the man.’”
What precisely the American Federation of Authorities Staff did to ‘kick’ Musk out of the White Home stays unclear. However Hayes and different Democrats are assured that his exit from workplace was nothing apart from an entire implosion on his half. As Hayes put it:
Did you’re feeling that down into your toes, that full physique cringe? Properly, Musk is now leaving in shame as a result of a number of individuals felt that method once they had been round him. He was wholesale rejected by about everybody. We have seen report after report after report that everybody merely could not stand the man. Would not matter how wealthy he’s.
Coming sizzling off the heels of a CBS interview the place Musk considerably distanced himself from President Trump’s Massive Lovely Invoice proposal, the media was fast to take his phrases as an indication of the rising pressure between Musk and each the President and his Cupboard.
Hayes himself pointed to a New York Instances article detailing a disagreement between Musk and several other cupboard members together with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. Studying just a bit additional into the article, nonetheless, reveals that, regardless of their cupboard assembly argument, on the finish of the day, these males may put their variations apart for the nice of the nation. The article reads:
Tammy Bruce, a spokeswoman for the State Division, responded, ‘Secretary Rubio thought of the assembly an open and productive dialogue with a dynamic staff that’s united in reaching the identical objective: making America nice once more.’ In a submit on X on Friday, Mr. Duffy praised Mr. Trump and the work Mr. Musk’s staff is doing and mentioned it was an efficient cupboard assembly. He added that ‘the DEI Division on the FAA was eradicated on day 2’ and that Mr. Trump’s ‘strategy of a scalpel versus a hatchet and higher coordination between Secretaries and DOGE is the precise strategy to revolutionizing the way in which our authorities is run.’
Imagine it or not, disagreements aren’t what defines politics; it’s the means to compromise, the flexibility to place apart variations with these you disagree with for the better good, that makes a very good politician. As Musk ready to depart workplace, President Trump hosted an occasion and press convention honoring him on Friday, making it obvious that being “wholesale rejected,” as Hayes put it, was removed from the principle takeaway of Elon Musk’s time with DOGE.
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MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes
Could 29, 2025
8:05 p.m. EST[ON SCREEN HEADLINE: Elon Musk Departs Washington With His Brand Battered]
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CHRIS HAYES: I imply, once more, you bought to only concede it the place it’s. I imply, it is a man who’s profoundly charismatic, silver tongued, eloquent, wonderful communicator. Sure, it’s a robust spot to be related to these poisonous Trump insurance policies. Possibly that explains the sudden, huge unpopularity, however that is you, proper?
[Cuts to video]
ELON MUSK: That is the chainsaw for paperwork. Chainsaw!
[Cuts back to live]
HAYES: HAYES: Did you’re feeling that down into your toes, that full physique cringe? Properly, Musk is now leaving in shame as a result of a number of individuals felt that method once they had been round him. He was wholesale rejected by about everybody. We have seen report after report after report that everybody merely could not stand the man. Would not matter how wealthy he’s.
Again in March, The New York Instances reported on an explosive cupboard assembly the place Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins all tore into Musk for his haphazard cuts of their respective companies.
Earlier this month, The Atlantic reported on an expletive-ridden screaming match between Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that spilled out from the Oval Workplace into extra public areas of the West Wing.
That very same article additionally quotes the Common Counsel for the American Federation of Authorities Staff as saying, quote, “We kicked him out of city. If he had stayed within the shadows and accomplished these things, who is aware of how dangerous it will have been? However nobody likes the man.”
“Nobody likes the man” is likely to be the perfect summation of Musk’s forays into American politics I’ve encountered. His Waterloo, kind of electorally talking, got here in April. Keep in mind that, within the State of Wisconsin? Keep in mind what he did there?
Man thought he was so in style, that he was such a very good politician himself that he flew in from out of state and wore a cheesehead and flexed his newfound political muscle mass within the State Supreme Court docket race. And he spent a small fortune of his personal cash in help of the conservative candidate, Brad Schimel. And it did not work. His candidate misplaced by ten factors, and voters, they actually did not like Musk.
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