Keeping Everyone Busy

Elon Musk
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Today’s notice: Trump floods the zone. “The posts are on ‘X,’ you say? Never heard of it.” Stopping a Senate campaign. Everyone’s changing their party registration.

Zones, Flooded: Last night, Donald Trump signed orders banning or restricting travel into the U.S. from 19 nations, launching an investigation into Joe Biden’s White House staff and restricting foreign students from attending Harvard.

The De-Eloning Continues: Shortly before all that, Russell Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told reporters on a conference call he hadn’t been “up on everything that’s been on Twitter” lately. By which he means his onetime DOGE partner Elon Musk’s relentless attacks on the “one big, beautiful bill.”