Other efforts were more mixed: when Musk bought Twitter, his desire to cut costs rapidly was so intense that he reportedly unplugged a server that was vital for the site’s efforts to monitor illegal activity on the platform, forcing staff to work frantically to repair the damage.
However, in the last 48 hours Musk has truly surpassed himself. Congress has until the end of Friday – the stroke of midnight – to come up with a compromise deal that can pass the House and Senate to avoid a full shutdown of the federal government, just days before Christmas.
Just one problem with Nigel Farage’s plan: Elon Musk is a fool
Read MoreIt would fund the government through to March, including disaster relief funds for the victims of recent hurricanes, almost $200m for child cancer research, restrictions on investment in China, and numerous other measures vital to secure the Democratic votes it needed to pass. Lawmakers were ready to sign it off and go home for Christmas – until Elon Musk stepped in.
Having seen the hundreds of millions Musk put into Trump’s campaign and his current closeness to Trump – and fearing the effects of Musk supporting a primary challenger against themselves – House representatives fell into line, rejecting the deal Johnson had agonisingly negotiated.
What followed was, in essence, total chaos. Many Republicans were not willing to vote on such a huge debt increase, while Democrats understandably didn’t want to simply sign off on a bad deal while giving Musk and Trump a huge political win. Johnson held a House vote on the new Musk/Trump deal, and it failed spectacularly: only two Democrats voted in favour of it, and 38 Republicans voted against.
Trump is becoming jealous of Elon Musk - and that means one thing
Read MoreAt the time of writing, all of the options look bad for Musk: either no deal is reached and the federal government shuts down, meaning all sorts of essential services and payments stop just days before Christmas; or else the House has to go back to the compromise deal with Democrats that Musk so publicly eviscerated just days before.
Democrats are not just blaming Musk for the chaos, they are calling him “president Musk” and suggesting that Trump and the Republicans are dancing to his tune. If Trump starts to believe that narrative, it will not end well for Musk – no president would play second fiddle to one of their advisers, and Trump’s ego is large even by presidential standards.
Elon Musk went all-in on his first foray into politics, and before he’s even started his “official” role in Trump’s administration. If he doesn’t learn how to play the game better, he may lose his first job in politics before it has started.
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