Though Elon Muskaccompanied President Donald Trump to Saudi Arabia, it was not special treatment as Sam Altman and other tech-business leaders also went along with him for their business meetings.In fact, Elon Musk has stopped receiving any special treatment from the administrations, Republican insiders said, asserting that Musk is “finished done and gone”. According to a Politico report, nobody now mentions Elon Musk’s name, even Democrats have almost forgotten him.“He’s finished, done, gone. He polls terrible. People hate him,” said a GOP operative who Politico granted anonymity. “He’d go to Wisconsin thinking he can buy people’s votes, wear the cheese hat, act like a 9-year-old. … It doesn’t work. It’s offensive to people,” the person told referring to the Wisconsin judge election that delivered a major blow to Elon Musk and the candidate he backed lost. The Politico report noted that Trump posted about the Tesla CEO an average of roughly four times per week in February and March. But there was no mention of Musk since the beginning of April on Trump’s Truth Social.

White House statement on Elon Musk’s disappearance

Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told Politico in a statement that the mission of DOGE will continue. “DOGE employees who onboarded at their respective agencies will continue to work with President Trump’s cabinet to make our government more efficient,” Leavitt said.

DOGE chaos that Elon Musk left behind

One General Services Administration employee recently told CNN that a lot of Elon’s people are already embedded in the agencies and they are not leaving. The chaos will continue and nothing will change, the employee said.

What Musk said about his absence

Earlier, Elon Musk compared Musk-ism with Buddhism and said the spread of Buddhism did not stop with the death of Buddha. And in the similar way, DOGE is a way of life which will not stop if he moves away and shifts focus from DOGE.