It was as if the metaphor has become reality.
Friday, after 130 days spent fighting the federal government, Elon Musk came with a white butter eye to the White House for his last day as “special government employee”. If you fold your eyes, you could see him: his right eyes obligation was swollen and full. Without a doubt, it was a big shiner.
His project in Washington is more or less finished, he was never able to reduce the 1 dollars of the federal government he had promised. His companies and his public image were somewhat beaten, and now, apparently he had his face.
Has anyone beat him?
The list of possible suspects seemed long. An abbreviated range of people and constituencies currently unhappy with Mr. Musk includes: at least two of the many women with whom he has generated children; Almost the whole federal bureaucracy; her neighbors in a suburb of Austin, Texas; Tesla shareholders; old friends of his; Republicans on Capitol Hill; her 20 year old girl; All these people who turned on in fire; And Even some Trump voters.
But it was not one of those people who gave him a black eye. It was, he said, his offspring X, 5 years old.
“I just hike with Little X, and I said,” Go ahead, hit me in the face “, and he did it,” said Musk after a journalist asked him if he was fine.
It was a strange moment in a press conference which was quite strange at the start. A few moments earlier, Mr. Musk had rejected with anger to engage with a question that had been asked about a new report from the New York Times detailing his drug use. Mr. Trump remained mainly silent while Mr. Musk struck this question. Now the technology magnate explained why he looked beaten.
The president seemed to find it rather fun. “I didn’t notice it,” he said, turning in his seat to better look at Musk. “Was it X who did this?”
Trump has spent a lot of time around the little coupur in the past 130 days. He and Mr. Musk even led the child to sit with them during the ultimate combat championship matches. Trump thought of the explanation that was offered for the eye with black butter. “X could do it,” he concluded, seeming almost impressed. “If you knew X, he could do it.” The way the president said, you would never guess that he was talking about a 5 -year -old child.
And so, Mr. Musk left Washington, his eye as bruised as his ego.
“I didn’t really feel much at the time,” he said about the tip of the face, “but I guess it would die.”
