Treasury Secretary Bessent Sees Musk The Same Way I Do
As I did yesterday, I keep saying that Elon Musk's main problem is with the boards of directors for each of his companies. With everything he's done since November, he's been digging himself a deeper and deeper hole. Yesterday in an interview with Dana Bash, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said , BASH: He (Musk) announced this weekend that he is starting a new political party. Does this worry the Trump Administration? BESSENT: Look, the principles of DOGE were popular. If you looked at the polling, Elon was not. The Boards of Directors at his various companies wanted him to come back and run his companies, which he is better at than anyone. So, I imagine those Board of Directors did not like this announcement yesterday and will be encouraging him to focus on his business activities, not his political activities, It's worth revisiting a story from a month ago that reported a physical altercation between Musk and Bessent : ...