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Donald Trump’s chief of staff has revealed what the future holds for Elon Musk within the White House.
Musk has been a dominant voice and face within the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) since Trump took office.
But after Trump’s 100 days in office, Musk is mysteriously nowhere to be seen on the White House campus.
Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has revealed that Musk is no longer working at the White House.
She told The New York Post: ‘Instead of meeting with him in person, I’m talking to him on the phone, but it’s the same net effect.
‘He’s not out of it altogether. He’s just not physically present as much as he was.
‘He hasn’t been here physically, but it really doesn’t matter much.
‘The people that are doing this work are here doing good things and paying attention to the details. He’ll be stepping back a little, but he’s certainly not abandoning it. And his people are definitely not.’
This is a major difference from the first 100 days in office, when Musk was seen everywhere.
Trump confirmed that Musk would head up the DOGE department after his election.
He’s been very present alongside Trump on occasions in the past, including taking his son X Æ A-Xii into the White House.
In one picture, the billionaire had his son on his shoulders as he answered questions from the press about his government proposals.
In February, he stood alongside the President and asserted that he is being ‘maximally transparent’ in working to eradicate federal corruption.
At the time, Musk’s former partner, Grimes, said she was not impressed that her son was paraded around during a White House press conference.
Responding to a woman praising how polite the little one was on X, she vented: ‘He should not be in public like this.
‘I did not see this, thank u for alerting me. But I’m glad he was polite. Sigh.’
Musk spoke about people aged 150 on social security as his four-year-old son, X Æ A-Xii, mimicked his movements in the Oval Office.
But it has not all been good news for the tech billionaire, who has been losing more than £102,000,000,000 since the beginning of the year.
Musk’s Tesla car company took a beating on the US stock market, and he lost £14 billion in one day in March alone.
But despite all of this, Musk still remains the richest man in the world, £65 billion ahead of the second richest man, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.
Musk’s company Neuralink has been developing and testing brain-computer interfaces, including brain chips in humans.
He revealed in February 2024 that the first human patient had been implanted with the first wireless Neuralink brain chip and they could move a computer cursor ‘just by thinking’.
A second person also received the Neuralink brain chip and played the video game Counterstrike 2 in August 2024.
The patient, a quadriplegic man named only as Alex, said he was ‘super impressed’ with the implant, which gives him brain-powered control of an external computer.
Most recently, Brad Smith, from Arizona, who has ALS, is able to speak again using his own voice thanks to the brain chip.
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