But Musk’s highly visible presence in Washington has ended, a POLITICO analysis found. In Trump’s rapidly evolving second presidency, Musk’s monopoly on political discourse, news coverage and social media seems to have broken — driven in part by how Trump and Republicans have all but stopped talking about him.

“You can’t really go lower than that,’ Enten said. “I guess you can go to 100 points, but he became political kryptonite. He was greatly disliked by the American public, and greatly, greatly, greatly disliked by Democrats. I guess you saw that in Wisconsin where he spent all that money and the liberal won the Supreme Court race.”

As Elon Musk’s DOGE slashed the federal government, he was a political brawler online. Now that he has stepped away from D.C., his messaging has shifted back to business.

Musk may be taking a step back from his full-time gig at the Trump administration’s DOGE. But his companies are still benefiting from the unprecedented relationship between the world’s richest man

Earlier this year Maye Musk, the mother of Kimbal and Elon Musk, was a headliner at a government conference in the Emirates. And Errol Musk, Elon Musk’s father, has said that he is in talks with an Emirati firm to build a Musk Tower in Dubai to house the Musk Institute, a planned technology hub.

As the tech billionaire’s 130-day stint in government comes to a close, he has turned potential allies into irritated foes.

For Bono, the U2 frontman used to performing at sold-out arenas, being without his bandmates on a sparsely decorated stage for his one-man show, now subject

Elon Musk’s pledge to step back from campaign spending — if he means it — is rippling across the nation’s political landscape. Some Republicans are worried that they might be losing their whale. Some Democrats fear they are losing their foil.