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Elon Musk's TIME Magazine Cover has everyone Saying the same Thing
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Elon Musk gracing the cover of Time Magazine might spell disaster for the DOGE-running tech billionaire.

Time's latest issue shows Musk sitting behind the Resolute Desk - where President Donald Trump should be placed - in the Oval Office.

' No,' Trump first responded in the Oval Office Friday together with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba when asked if he had a reaction to Musk's cover.

After a long time out, he then sardonically responded: 'Is Time Magazine still in company? I didn't even understand that.'

He added: 'Elon is doing a great job. He's finding incredible fraud and corruption and waste,' the president added, pointing to the work the billionaire has actually done collapsing USAID. 'He's got a personnel that's fantastic. He's wished to do this for a very long time.'

Trump had actually touted being called Time's Person of the Year himself last year.

In February of 2017, wiki.lafabriquedelalogistique.fr Time Magazine put White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon on the cover and asked the question: 'Is Steve Bannon the second most powerful male on the planet?'

At the time, Bannon was labeled 'The Great Manipulator.'

In April 2017, The New York Times reported that Trump was irritated by that cover, telling people 'that does not simply occur,' a term the president used when eclipsing him.

Bannon was out in August of that year.

Time Magazine's newest cover shows Elon Musk sitting in President Donald Trump's place behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office

President Donald Trump is recorded seated behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office - in a similar position where Elon Musk is depicted on the new Time publication cover

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Comment now Now, eight years later on, Musk's cover is much more intriguing.

A reporter questioning Trump in the Oval Office Friday even explained that Musk was sitting behind 'your Resolute Desk.'

Musk, the richest individual in the world, has actually gotten just as much attention as Trump since the Republican was sworn back in on January 20.

DOGE's early actions - to take a wrecking ball to USAID, are narrated in Time's piece about the billionaire's arrival in Washington.

Civil servant at the Department of Homeland Security told the publication how they're assuming the 'defensive crouch' as they wait for photorum.eclat-mauve.fr DOGE to get here.

In the aftermath of Time's cover release, Musk was making his own relocations.

'I like @realdonaldtrump as much as a straight man can enjoy another male,' he proclaimed on X, the platform he obtained, on Friday morning.

During the Friday afternoon press conference with Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Fox News' Peter Doocy began the questioning by asking Trump what the first woman thought of Musk's declaration.

'Oh I believe she'll be OK with it, in some way,' Trump said.

In another Friday early morning post, Musk cheered that Trump was the 'Greatest president ever!'

Musk highlighted a post where Trump said he was going to end the 'ludicrous Biden push for Paper Straws, which don't work.'

'BACK TO PLASTIC!' Trump wrote.

Musk became an ardent MAGA supporter in July, when Trump endured an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

A February 2017 Time cover reportedly irritated Trump when it showcased then Chief White House Strategist Steve Bannon, identifying him 'The Great Manipulator'

DAMAGE CONTROL? On Friday morning Elon Musk said that he liked President Donald Trump 'as much as a straight man can like another guy'

Minutes before he identified Trump the 'Greatest President ever!' as the Republican is poised to sign an executive order barring paper straws

The billionaire SpaceX, Tesla and X manager endorsed Trump and then raked millions into the Republican's reelection effort over Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris.

In the run-up to the inauguration Musk rarely left Trump's side - even renting a $2,000-a-night home at Mar-a-Lago.

During this time period, Vivek Ramaswamy - who has currently left as the co-leader of DOGE - and in turn Musk, started an online war with Bannon and other MAGA traditionalists over making use of H1-B visas.

Trump appeared to take the tech entrepreneurs' side.

Musk stimulated some more trouble when he trashed the AI project Stargate, which Trump announced from the White House on January 21, simply one day after inauguration.

The DOGE leader isn't a fan of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, among the three tech leaders included in the $500 billion project.

A Republican close to the White House informed Politico that some Trump staff were 'furious' at Musk for torching Stargate online.

'It's clear he has abused the distance to the president,' the Trump ally said. 'The problem is the president doesn't have any leverage over him and Elon provides absolutely no f *** s.'

Trump was then inquired about it.

'He hates among individuals in the offer,' the president shrugged.

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