This "Musk was made the fall guy for the Trump Admin" pity party is going to have a VERY SHORT shelf life. [View all]

[Miles Archer]

I don't think the image of Musk in his K-hole, cackling like a hen and swinging a chain saw, played well outside of the MAGAt base.

Project 2025 expert claims Elon Musk was deliberately played to become admin's fall guy

The author of a new book on Project 2025 suggested tech billionaire Elon Musk got played by the authors of the right-wing blueprint guiding Donald Trump's second presidency.

Musk has made sweeping cuts to the federal government from his perch as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, but The Atlantic's David A. Graham told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that White House budget chief Russell Vought and other authors of Project 2025 were happy to let him take the blame for the deeply unpopular cuts they had recommended themselves.

"You look at the layoffs of federal workers, you see attempts to close the Education Department, it's just point-by-point right from here, and I think the thing that gets missed is people talk about the policies, but it's so much, you know, a scheme for how to rework the entire shape of government, and that's something that I think maybe didn't come through during the campaign," Graham said.

Musk's cuts have proven to be unpopular so far, and host Joe Scarborough asked whether that had caught the administration off guard.

https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-project-2025/