By Tess Lawrence
The love affair between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, spewed onto the global stage before us all, now holds the world to ransom. And for some, in thrall.
We are held hostage to their political shapeshifting and shameless shoplifting of democracy.
This dangerous same-sex presidency of the United States has trashed the very office of the Presidency.
Trump, Elon Musk Same-Sex Presidency Dangerous
Not because of the same-sex aspect, but because of the sinister symbiotic cannibalism of both men as they mutilate not only the muscles of governance but also the softerunderbelly of America’s already diminishing international reputation.
All the while feeding their bloating arrogance and white privilege. One has the power. The other has the money. Two sides of the same coin.
Musk First Man to President Trump
Musk, without question is First Man to President Trump. Not mistress, nor Muse, not consort, nor Iago when at his more ardent gaslighting of Othello.
If you think Musk a mere court jester, you would be wrong. He is no longer a laughing matter. Both Musk and Trump have compromised the stability and security of the United States by their inane and insane capers.
Musk a Wet Nurse to Needy Trump
Oval Office Musk’s Personal Child Care Centre
Musk has become a wet nurse to the needy Donald, who daily suckles on Musk’s teats for oily flatteries, feeding Trump’s ego that casts larger than his shadow.
No matter that Musk has turned the Oval Office into his personal child care centre, jettisoning at least one of his hapless little children into the public arena, subjecting him to cruel unfair ridicule and mockery.
After Musk’s little son picked his nose, the Donald had the desk removed; not the little boy. Cleanliness, is after all, next to godliness for the messianic Trump.
At least little John-John Kennedy’s daddy was the President when he was photographed under the Resolute Desk (gifted by Queen Victoria) as JFK worked.
Musk’s genius is not in dispute. He may be an idiot savant. But he’s not an idiot.
His histrionic behaviour though, as in the wielding of a chainsaw onstage at a Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland the other day was more than disturbing.
Elon Musk waves ‘chainsaw for bureaucracy’ at CPAC
Musk Waving Chainsaw Not Ad for Bunnings
You would be forgiven if you thought the chainsaw stunt was an ad break for Bunnings, but no, it was a metaphor for the Tzar of the Department of Government Efficiency’s chainsaw massacre of all tiers of government and governance that has severed critical infrastructure arteries, slashing thousands, if not millions of civil servant jobs and vital departments charged with the guardianship of the likes of veterans, the elderly, the poor, the disenfranchised, the disabled, the marginalised, the sick, special needs, health and education, agriculture, aid agencies, both at home and abroad, to say nothing of science and research, refugees and asylum seekers.
Bureaucracy Demolition Derby Ill-Informed
What is more, the bureaucracy demolition derby is being done on an ill-informed whim, since there has simply not been enough time for any proper assessment or analyses before sawing off these funds that are crucial to the engines running the nation.
Inevitably, such savage cost cutting and sackings without notice or due process, is triggering a suite of legal actions as society tries to fight back against such arbitrary injustice.
Of course, it would be wrong to deny that almost by definition, most bureaucracies need forensic scrutiny, America’s included.
America Not Alone in Bureaucratic Waste
Australia has Robodebt
Think of Australia’s own monumental fail and abuse of our more vulnerable brothers and sisters who were brutalised by what is infamously known as the ‘Robodebt Scandal‘ riddled with deception and corruption, unethical and amoral conduct, as exposed by the subsequent Royal Commission. And there is still unfinished business here.
DOGE and Musk’s Orgasmic Exuberance
Elon Musk’s DOGE is an ugly brutal scenario and the orgasmic exuberance he displays at injuring and no doubt mortally wounding in due course, thousands if not millions, of his fellow Americans who are now deprived of vital services, is macabre and resembles the actions of a psychopath and of someone seemingly incapable of empathy with the workforce and those it serves. Through Musk, the nation state itself has become a psychopathic and indiscriminate marauder.
Not for a second am I referring to Musk’s Asperger’s. Remember when he hosted Saturday Night Live? It was a tender insight, especially the moments shared with Maye, his Canadian born mother, a dietician, longtime model, author and Glenn Close lookalike with her own website.
Elon Musk Monologue – SNL
As Musk said, “… I’m pretty good at running human in emulation mode…”
Under Trump’s patronage Musk is all powerful. Like his co-president, he is a narcissist.
Big Dick Men Like Musk and Trump Hold Poor in Contempt
These big dick men get their rocks off crushing the powerless and the voiceless and consider both as weaknesses of the individual rather than indicative of fault lines within society. They hold the poor in contempt; view them as losers.
Power and celebrity is better for sex for these dudes as pussy grabbing braggart Trump attests.
Trump may have found his soulmate; maybe his sole mate with a nod more to a warped version of Brokeback Mountain than the Mount Rushmore college.
Trum Smitten with Musk
That Trump is besotted with the Pretorian born Musk is obvious. He’s smitten.
It was shrewd of Trump to appoint Musk, a non-elected politician to be his Enforcer. That takes the blowback heat – and the blame – off Trump. Or so he thought.
Instead, the man who has declared himself King of America, most beloved by balloteers, has found his once impenetrable approval rating has degraded in the few weeks he’s been in office – at the time of writing.
The White House on X: “CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!” – President Donald J. Trump.
Musk Bought Trump, the White House, America
Musk bought his way into the White House, donating millions to Trump’s campaign.Trump owes him. Big time. Not only has Musk bought Trump, he’s bought the White House and essentially, he’s bought America. How long will this state of affairs stand? This apparently, is Shamocracy, the new Democracy in America, once regarded as its most fortified bullwark.
If Trump was not the President, there is no way that he would be given a personal security clearance. If Trump had not appointed Elon to play Tonto to his anagrammatic Lone Ranger. He would surely fail any security clearance. To avoid the obvious, Trump even contemplated hiring a private company to vet his camp followers in the White House.
In some media, it has been reported that Trump has already hired private companies to do the FBI’s security sweeps.
Dicktator Sun King Trump and Security EOs
To overcome all these irritations, the dicktator Sun King simply changed the rules by issuing – you guessed it – an Executive Order specifically for DOGE. The title shamelessly says it all:
PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS
PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS ENSURING LAWFUL GOVERNANCE AND IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT’S “DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY” DEREGULATORY INITIATIVE EXECUTIVE ORDER
February 19, 2025
Congressman Gerry Connolly Writes to White House Counsel About Lack of Proper Security Clearance
In January, concerned congressman, Gerry Connolly (Democrat, Virginia 11th District) a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee tried to do something about Trump’s abuse of power.
He wrote to White House Counsel David Warrington asking the Trump Administration to release the names of those granted a Top Secret security clearance even though they had not been properly vetted.
Connolly’s letter contains a number of shocking revelations about Trump and his White House in regard to security clearances. It is a clear indictment of Trump’s direct interference in due process, not only in this second term but also in his first term; history repeating itself.
Here is Connolly’s letter in toto so you can see for yourself, without filters:
Mr. David Warrington Counsel to the President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. Warrington:
January 30, 2025
I write to express my grave concern regarding President Trump’s recent action that would endanger our national security by allowing the White House Counsel to grant Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearances to individuals without appropriate vetting. This extraordinary and unprecedented action sidesteps law enforcement, the Department of Defense, and the Intelligence Community without regard to insider threats or other national security threats.1 Inappropriate and unauthorized access to or disclosure of TS/SCI “could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to national security.”2 Forgoing background checks poses a major risk to our national security and throws into doubt the Executive Office of the President’s (EOP) ability to protect the safety and security of our country and the American people.
Unfortunately, the Trump Administration’s disdain for the security clearance process is nothing new. During his first Administration, President Trump reversed decisions on several security clearance adjudications. Public reporting found that he personally overruled concerns the CIA expressed about granting his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a security clearance. President Trump’s actions also contradicted previous statements claiming that as President, he did not have a role in the security clearance process.3 Furthermore, in 2019, a whistleblower told the Committee on Oversight and Reform that the Trump Administration gave clearances to 25 individuals despite “concerns about ties to foreign influence, conflicts of interest, questionable or criminal conduct, financial problems, or drug abuse.”4
1 The White House, Memorandum to Resolve the Backlog of Security Clearances for Executive Office of the President Personnel (Jan. 20, 2025) (online at www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/memorandum- to-resolve-the-backlog-of-security-clearances-for-executive-office-of-the-president-personnel/).
2 18 C.F.R. § 3a.11.
3 Trump Ordered Officials to Give Jared Kushner a Security Clearance, The New York Times (Feb. 28, 2019) (online at www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/politics/jared-kushner-security-clearance.html).
4 White House Whistleblower Says 25 Security Clearance Denials were Reversed During Trump Administration, Washington Post (Apr. 1, 2019) (online at www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/white-house- whistleblower-says-security-clearance-denials-were-reversed-during-trump-administration/2019/04/01/9f28334e-
Mr. David Warrington Page 2
The security clearance process is critical to ensuring that any individual with access to our nation’s most sensitive information are suitable and can also prevent politically embarrassing situations for the White House. During his first term, President Trump fired his first national security advisor—General Michael Flynn (ret.)—after news reports revealed that he had lied to then-Vice President Mike Pence about conversations Flynn had with the Russian Ambassador.5 Then-Oversight Chairman Elijah E. Cummings revealed that Flynn had also lied on his security clearance renewal forms about receiving trips from Russian firms and forcing Flynn to invoke his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid disclosing further wrongdoing.6
In another instance, President Trump had to fire a personal assistant because he failed to gain a security clearance because of his financial troubles and gambling habit that exposed him to blackmail and coercion.7 The White House only discovered the issue when then-Chief of Staff John Kelly implemented a more stringent security clearance policy after discovering “a couple of spreadsheets worth of people” working at the White House on interim clearances and at least 35 people who inappropriately held top secret clearances.8
Congress already passed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act which created an accelerated process for major party candidates to begin the clearance process prior to an election and the Presidential Transition Act which allows for expedited reviews following a general election. 9 However, the Trump-Vance Transition Team’s decision to forego requiring nominees to submit to FBI background checks thus delaying further investigations.10 A backlog is not a license to compromise our national security now that the Trump Administration is in place. Furthermore, the security clearance process already has provisions for interim clearances while the investigation and adjudication continue.11
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5 Trump: I Fired Flynn Because of What He Told Pence, CNBC (Feb. 17, 2017) (online at www.cnbc.com/2017/02/16/trump-no-i-didnt-tell-flynn-to-talk-about-sanctions-with-russia.html).
6 Ex-National Security Advisor ‘Lied’ on Security Clearance, BBC (May 23, 2017) (online at www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40004300).
7 Trump’s Personal Assistant Fired Over Security Issue, Wall Street Journal (Mar. 13, 2018) (online at www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-personal-assistant-is-fired-1520945928).
8 Id.
9 Congressional Research Service, Presidential Transitions: Security Clearance Background
Investigations (Dec. 3, 2024) (IF12836) (online at https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12836).
10 Letter from Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, Committee on Oversight and Accountability, to Mr. Howard Lutnick and Ms. Linda McMahon, Co-Chairs, Trump-Vance Transition (Dec. 13, 2024) (online at https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-oversight.house.gov/files/evo-media- document/2024-12-13.Raskin%20to%20Lutnick%20McMahon-Trump- Vance%20Transition%20re%20Background%20Checks.pdf).
11 Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, Interim Clearances (online at www.dcsa.mil/Industrial-Security/Entity-Vetting-Facility-Clearances-FOCI/Facility-Clearances/Interim- Clearances/) (accessed Jan. 22, 2025).
Mr. David Warrington Page 3
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has a long history of holding the Trump Administration accountable for operational security and especially security clearances. In response to the aforementioned flouting of security clearance protocols in President Trump’s first term, I cosponsored the bipartisan Securely Expediting Clearances Through Reporting Transparency (SECRET) Act of 2018 which, among other improvements to the transparency of the clearance process, required that EOP report on adjudicating security clearances for the President’s staff.12 The Trump Administration then failed to comply and report on the security clearance process.13 The Committee performed a full investigation into the Trump Administration’s disregard for security clearances, which the White House Counsel stonewalled at every opportunity.14 I can only hope that as White House Counsel, you will prove more concerned for our nation’s security than your predecessor.
To continue the Committee Democrats’ ongoing oversight work in service of protecting the United States’ national security secrets I request the following documents by February 12th:
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is the principal oversight committee of the House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X. If you have any questions regarding this request, please contact Committee Democratic staff at (202) 225-5051. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
12 Pub. L. No. 115-173 (2018).
13 Committee on Oversight and Reform, Press Release: Subcommittee Chairs Demand Testimony From White House Official Who Failed to Comply with Security Clearance Law (Oct. 31, 2019) (online at https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/subcommittee-chairs-demand-testimony-from-white- house-official-who-failed-to).
14 Committee on Oversight and Reform, Press Release: White House Orders Former Security Director to Defy Oversight Subpoena (Apr. 23, 2019) (online at https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press- releases/white-house-orders-former-security-director-to-defy-oversight-committee-subpoena).
Mr. David Warrington Page 4
Sincerely,
__________________________ Gerald E. Connolly
Ranking Member
cc: The Honorable James Comer, Chairman
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Trump Flaunts Tech Toyboy Genius in Public
Co-Dependency Between Trump and Musk fuels Jealousy
The co-dependency between Trump and Musk is said to be unnerving and annoying to others who hold executive office in the White House who feel sidelined as Trump flaunts his tech toyboy genius in public.
Rampant jealousies abound. Right now, it is difficult for anyone else to grab Trump’s attention.
Musk Tells Hannity, World, He Loves Trump
Sean Hannity’s unctuous interview with Musk and President Trump on Channel Donald aka Fox News the other day requires taking a shower and using sanitiser afterwards.
Earlier in the two part series, Musk explains his relationship with Trump by declaring “…Well, I love the President, I just want to be clear about that.’
It is rather moving and Musk looks and sounds as if he really means it. What’s not to love about Love ?
Musk Cannot Be President But Can Be Devil’s Apprentice
Perhaps Trump is also something of a father figure to Elon Reeve Musk, given his reported fractious relationship with his father Errol, who has sired two children with his stepdaughter Jana Bezuidenhout.
Because Elon Musk was not born in America, he cannot be President. The next best thing for him is to remain Donald’s apprentice and rule by proxy for the next few years. That is, if Musk’s popularity rating is not higher than his mentor’s. It is not likely that Trump would tolerate that.
So Musk will be ever the bridesmaid and never the bride.
Such is the lot of the Devil’s Apprentice.
© Tess Lawrence
Tess Lawrence is Contributing editor-at-large for Independent Australia and her most recent article is The night Porter and allegation of rape.
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