Musk and Trump’s The relationship was cemented on July 13, 2024, when a former assassin came within an inch of the death of former Butler President Pennsylvania. Musk was impressed by the photo of Trump, blood flowing over his face, lifting his fist in the air and ‘fighting, fighting, fighting’ for the cameras. The image quickly became a meme – Musk’s love language. He endorsed Trump that day and recently launched his Super PAC to get the former president re -elected.
The next month, during a direct discussion on X, Musk has the idea of working for Trump on a ‘Government Efficiency Commission’. Trump’s reaction was enthusiastic. “You’re the biggest cutter,” he says admiringly.
Two years earlier, after Musk bought Twitter in a chaotic blitz of paperwork at the last minute and money transfers of a hundred million dollars, he cut about 80 percent of the company staff, closed at least a dozen international offices and rolled back Twitter’s content multi -speech in the name of free speech. He changed so quickly that one of his lieutenants, Steve Davis, slept with his partner and their newborn baby at Twitter’s headquarters of San Francisco.
In Washington, Musk estimates that his team can cut “nearly $ 2 trillion” from the federal budget. After you did not set aside discretionary expenses such as Medicare and Social Security benefits and interest payments on national debt, the number, $ 2 trillion, was a little more than you were left. In other words, Musk suggested functionally to cut everything Otherwise, from foreign aid to housing subsidies, from the maintenance of national parks to the collection of basic weather data, from investigations into predator lenders to the operation of air traffic systems.
After Trump won, he announced that Musk, along with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, would be Colead Doge. The announcement kicked off a stealthy recruitment process, led by Davis, the same CEO who slept with Twitter HQ. Musk proposed a team of Super-Hoog IQ Individuals that joined Washington in Washington at an 80-hour-18-month-Hackathon of the US government in Washington.
The Doge Brain Trust led the eighth floor of the SpaceX office in Washington, DC Camp, with several conference rooms and conducted meetings and interviews with Stenge Hopfulgies, according to a person with knowledge of the events. One question for applicants: Who did you vote for in 2024?
Among the early recruits of Davis was Zsombor (Anthony) Jancso, an engineer in San Francisco and former Palantir employee in the mid-twenties. After Palantir, Jancso worked on a project called Accelate X, which presented to “offer a modern operating system for the government” with solutions delivered in days. “His co-founder, a MIT-trained engineer named Jordan Wick, also joined Doge.
A few weeks after the 2024 election, an online handle associated with Jancso reached out to a group of people who participated in an AI challenge made by the US space force. The person said they were looking for “hardcore engineers” and instructed applicants to send their GitHub or LinkedIn to @doge on X and answered privately with their X handle. (To do all this, they have to pay for X premium.) Not long after, the same handle placed in a group for Palantir alums: “This is a historic opportunity to build an effective government and cut the federal budget by 1/3.”