Musk, the owner of car manufacturer Tesla and social media platform X, has been tapped by Trump to lead the proposed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), with biotech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, after vocally supporting and financially backing his campaign for president.

After Congress averted a government shutdown with a last-minute deal, it’s become a serious question: who runs the GOP, Donald Trump or Elon Musk? While Trump is about to be sworn in for his second term,

He pays lip service to cutting spending but he doesn't really care about it. He's told people he's not worried about a U.S. debt crisis as he'll be out of office by then. And he's got stuff he wants to spend a lot of money on, like deporting millions of immigrants!

Musk has joined Trump’s calls with world leaders, weighed in on Cabinet choices and been a regular part of the Trump family since the election.

Everyone step aside, Jimmy Fallon has figured it out. The NBC late night host debuted the couple name for Donald Trump and Elon Musk: Elonald. The joke came as part of one of Fallon’s often used he-said,

Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla, is co-leading the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E) with Vivek Ramaswamy under the incoming administration of ‘crypto president’ Donald Trump.

Donald Trump has clapped back at jokes that he is not really in charge, insisting that his new right-hand-man Elon Musk will never be president. Musk, who has been christened the ‘first buddy’ has been spending a lot of time with Trump since his election victory.