{"id":2321,"date":"2025-02-10T09:44:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T10:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2025-02-10T12:28:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T12:28:45","slug":"trump-mocks-time-magazine-portraying-musk-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/trump-mocks-time-magazine-portraying-musk-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump mocks TIME magazine portraying Musk as president"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest cover shows the tech billionaire sitting at the Resolute desk in the Oval Office<\/strong><\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump has ridiculed the latest cover of TIME magazine depicting Elon Musk. The print edition features the Tesla and Space X CEO sitting at the Resolute desk in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

The cover, dated February 24, 2025, shows the tech mogul at the center of the desk, positioned between an American flag and a presidential flag behind him. Musk, the head of Trump\u2019s newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is shown holding a coffee cup in his left hand.<\/p>\n

The magazine published a feature titled \u2018Inside Elon Musk\u2019s War on Washington\u2019, detailing the efforts of the Trump ally to reform the federal government since the president\u2019s inauguration on January 20.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo\u2026 Is TIME Magazine still in business? I didn\u2019t even know that,\u201d<\/em> Trump said on Friday while speaking with journalists.<\/p>\n

This comes two months after the publication named Trump \u2018person of the year\u2019, an honor that he first received after his election victory in 2016.<\/p>\n

Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X, was appointed as a \u2018special government employee\u2019 to head DOGE under the Trump administration. He is currently among the president\u2019s chief advisers.<\/p>\n

In November, Musk co-wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, announcing large-scale plans for budgets cuts. The billionaire said the newly launched agency \u2013 which is not listed among the permanent federal executive departments despite its name \u2013 would help the president \u201chire a lean team of small-government crusaders\u201d<\/em> who would work to bring \u201cmass head-count reductions across the federal bureaucracy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\n Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\n \"Tesla,
Trump\u2019s DOGE claims $1 billion saved on cancelled DEI programs<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

DOGE has set the goal of cutting $2 trillion from the federal budget by 2026.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the Musk-led department claimed that it had managed to save over $1 billion as a result of eliminating contracts related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. Shortly after his inauguration, Trump signed a series of executive orders rolling back protections for transgender individuals and terminating DEI initiatives adopted by his predecessor, Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

Prior to this, the agency said it slashed daily federal spending by around $1 billion as of January 29, due to an effective halt to \u201cthe hiring of people into unnecessary positions, the deletion of DEI, and stopping improper payments to foreign organizations.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In addition, the Trump administration has pushed against the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Washington\u2019s primary vehicle for funding political projects abroad, with plans to place thousands of its employees on leave. Musk has called USAID a \u201ccriminal organization\u201d<\/em> and claimed it has funded bioweapons research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest cover shows the tech billionaire sitting at the Resolute desk in the Oval Office US President Donald Trump has ridiculed the latest cover of TIME magazine depicting Elon Musk. The print edition features the Tesla and Space X CEO sitting at the Resolute desk in the Oval Office. The cover, dated February 24,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/2324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}