That didn’t take long. Now that Donald doesn’t need Elon anymore, it makes perfect sense to defenestrate him and send him to the Eisenhower building. Evidently it was the doing of Susie Wiles, the “ice maiden” who ran Trump’s campaign along with Chris LaCivita (remember him, the $20 million man?) Musk had a place set up in the West Wing and that went bye bye so now he’s down the street.
The British newspaper the Sunday Times recently reported that President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, “has denied the billionaire touted as ‘the real vice-president’ a permanent office in the heart of the White House.”
“The ‘ice maiden’ at the heart of the Trump administration has won her first big battle this week — denying Elon Musk a permanent base in the West Wing of the White House. Susie Wiles, a veteran Florida political fixer and the first female chief of staff, earned her nickname from President Trump for the calm professionalism she brought to his election campaign,” the outlet reported Friday. “Observers call her job ‘the toughest in America’: she must bring order to Trump’s White House operation, control access to the president to keep him focused, manage senior staff and liaise with Congress to advance his legislative agenda.”
NEW: Susie Wiles has reportedly put a leash on “DOGE” and Elon Musk’s direct line to Trump.
Instead of cozying up in the West Wing, DOGE is getting parked outside in the Eisenhower building—far from the action.
And here’s the kicker: DOGE won’t be reporting to Trump directly… pic.twitter.com/VDbmhLDr07
— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) January 25, 2025
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DOGE is not doing well for openers. Vivek Ramaswamy was set to co-helm the operation but he managed to upset MAGA with his comments about how bad American culture is and how lazy and stupid we are — hence in need of smart people from India to come over on H-1B visas and save us from ourselves.
Additionally, the main lawyer for DOGE, Bill McGinley, resigned. If you read between the lines of this Wall Street Journal piece, you’ll see a classic case of leaving the kitchen when the heat goes up.
McGinley said he is leaving DOGE days after Vivek Ramaswamy, its co-chair, stepped down to pursue a campaign to be Ohio’s next governor amid tension with Musk.
“I am in discussions regarding a number of private sector opportunities and will have something to announce in the next couple of weeks,” McGinley said Thursday. “I support President Trump, Vice President Vance, and the great teams in the White House and across the administration 100%.”
Though DOGE was conceived as an outside advisory panel, Trump signed an executive order after taking office that made clear DOGE will function within the executive branch, replacing the U.S. Digital Service.
Trump said soon after his election in November that he planned to choose McGinley as White House counsel, the most senior legal adviser to the president. Weeks later, Trump changed his mind, tapping McGinley as DOGE’s counsel instead.
Trump said in December that McGinley would help DOGE slash regulations and reduce spending. Musk has said that DOGE aims to help cut up to $2 trillion in government spending, a figure he also has described as a best-case outcome. Musk has been working this week from a West Wing office, according to a person familiar with the situation, and DOGE will be based in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, a short walk from the White House.
At least three lawsuits have been filed against DOGE by watchdog groups including Public Citizen and the State Democracy Defenders Fund arguing that the group violates laws by giving private citizens specific roles within the federal government but not allowing public access that is required by the law.
Unrealistic goals to begin with and lawsuits coming out of the woodwork. Not a good sign for the beginning of a revolutionary advisory department. Now the progenitor of this pipe dream is being reduced to second class citizen status, as these things are reckoned in Trump world, and sent down the road. DOGE is getting off to, how shall we put it ….. a less than auspicious start. Let’s just say that much.
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Life in bed with a dictatorial malignant narcissist conman is always going to be “interesting,” as the hoary old Chinese curse tells us. The narcissist will always make sure his ass-lickers are at war with one another, stabbing each other’s backs on the way up and the way down. That way he remains in control and all favors must be dispensed by him to his flavors-of-the-moment. Trump is said to have read (really?) some of Hitler’s scribbled screeds, so he’ll be following the Fuhrer’s guidelines on this as on other matters of state.
lawsuits take forever & DOGE is for two years so by the time there is a ruling, it will be too late like everything else has been.
You’re forgetting that the FIRST step in almost any lawsuit is to put a “temporary hold” on whatever action is being taken to court. Then, the courts typically decide whether the suit has merit and/or the people bringing the suit have standing for it to proceed.
You’re right that lawsuits take years but that has NOT stopped any of the morons who’ve spent the past several years filing nuisance lawsuits (mainly with a little “court-shopping”) over the Biden Administration’s many actions. But, again, the first step is to get a halt on whatever action is being contested. And that is the easiest part.
Hitler opened Dachau 6 months in and filled it with political opponents and grumblers. I wonder where the first camp will be located, and when Biden will be charged with the first imaginary crime? Then Pelosi, the prosecutors in NY and Georgia….and so on. Good times in the second edition of the Confederacy. Stupid northerners and west coast elites…don’t they remember how the agricultural south gave the well equipped North the fight of their lives? Now they’re more devious and well funded. When do we replace everything about the Union with Confederate crypto currency, rename all the monuments, throw out the history books and retell the entire history? Can’t wait. When do we nuke Sacramento Herr Trump? Hey I hear it could kill two birds with one stone…take out newscum and end the fires. You might want to to review the smooch between your ‘wife’ behind your large lurching ass. Looked suspicious to me. I haven’t seen her smooch or smile at you that way. Just saying. Nuke him! Go get your Otis Campbell…sober him up and see what he thinks.