Elon Musk reportedly wanted to buy Substack after he purchased Twitter to combine the two sites. The tech CEO proposed the acquisition of the blogging site during a phone call with Substack executive Chris Best in April 2023, a year after he took over Twitter, according to The New York Times.

We explore Musk’s agenda and ideology. By Jonathan Mahler I’m a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. Over the course of the 2024 presidential campaign, Elon Musk went from dark-money donor to high-profile surrogate to unofficial chief of staff.

Elon Musk listens as US President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with House Republicans at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Washington, DC, on Nov. 13.

Lutnick currently serves as chair of Trump’s White House transition team. His most notable moment in recent memory was his declaration on CNN that Robert F Kennedy Jr, the vaccine conspiracist and Covid lockdown critic, would not be Trump’s pick for head of Health and Human Services. Trump nominated Kennedy to that very post last week.

Despite the apparent unease of some Trump staffers with Musk’s actions, there is no evidence that any rift has formed between Musk and Trump themselves. Musk is still spending m

X owner and adviser Boris Epshteyn reportedly came to blows over how much influence each exerts on president-elect’s choices for top administration jobs

Elon Musk has quickly become an influential figure in President-elect Trump's inner circle, but there are signs of tension between Musk and a longtime Trump adviser over Cabinet appointments to the new administration.

I didn't want to believe Elon but then it was the sense in which I felt he was correct: If Trump could not win in 2024 against The Machine, The Machine would always win,' Thiel tells journalist Bari W