NY Times Reporter’s Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan are promoting their new ‘tell-all’ book ‘Regime Change’ ….
They include a look at the relationship between President Trump and Elon Musk and the mess Musk’s DOGE hit job did on the American Government while Trump just sat there and watched…
New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan appeared Friday on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” to discuss some details from their new book, “Regime Change,” and shared a few not-so-flattering anecdotes about tech tycoons’ relationships with the president, including a harsh observation about Elon Musk.
In the midst of a conversation about the chaotic ways in which the White House operates during President Donald Trump’s second term, Haberman attributed some of the mess to Musk by saying the government “never quite recovered” from his short-lived bromance while running the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
“You had Elon Musk — and we get into this in great detail [in the book] — essentially serving not as a co-president but as a co-president for parts of the first four months or so,” Haberman said. “And that created so much destabilization of this government that I think they also never quite recovered.”.
Musk snagged the title of “special government employee” shortly after Trump’s second term began — likely thanks to the fortune he donated to Trump’s campaign — and attended official Cabinet meetings and Oval Office press conferences.
He also did a good amount of damage.
During Musk’s stint as the head of DOGE, he fired hundreds of thousands of federal workers and gutted funding for medical research, school lunch initiatives, staffing at national parks and forests, and a litany of other programs.
Musk’s dominance in the White House — which apparently included sleepovers that first lady Melania Trump wasn’t thrilled about — began to fizzle out in April 2025.
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