{"id":21397,"date":"2025-12-31T13:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/elon-musks-2025-recap-how-the-worlds-richest-person-became-its-most-chaotic\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T13:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:37:20","slug":"elon-musks-2025-recap-how-the-worlds-richest-person-became-its-most-chaotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/elon-musks-2025-recap-how-the-worlds-richest-person-became-its-most-chaotic\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s 2025 recap: how the world\u2019s richest person became its most chaotic"},"content":{"rendered":"

How the tech CEO and \u2018Dogefather\u2019 made a mess of the year \u2013 from an apparent Nazi salute during his White House tenure to Tesla sales slumps and Starship explosions<\/p>\n

The year of 2025 was dizzying for Elon Musk<\/a>. The tech titan began the year holding court with Donald Trump<\/a> in Washington DC. As the months ticked by, one public appearance after another baffled the US and the world. Musk appeared to give<\/a> a Nazi salute at Trump\u2019s inauguration, staunchly championed a 19-year-old staffer<\/a> nicknamed \u201cBig Balls,\u201d denied reports<\/a> of being a drug addict while advising the president, and showed up at a White House press conference with a black eye<\/a> \u2013 all in the first half of the year alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cElon\u2019s attitude is you have to get it done fast. If you\u2019re an incrementalist, you just won\u2019t get your rocket to the moon,\u201d Susie Wiles, Trump\u2019s chief of staff, told Vanity Fair<\/a> in an expansive interview<\/a> earlier this month. \u201cAnd so with that attitude, you\u2019re going to break some china.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nHow the tech CEO and \u2018Dogefather\u2019 made a mess of the year \u2013 from an apparent Nazi salute during his White House tenure to Tesla sales slumps and Starship explosions
\nThe year of 2025 was dizzying for Elon Musk. The tech titan began the year holding court with Donald Trump in Washington DC. As the months ticked by, one public appearance after another baffled the US and the world. Musk appeared to give a Nazi salute at Trump\u2019s inauguration, staunchly championed a 19-year-old staffer nicknamed \u201cBig Balls,\u201d denied reports of being a drug addict while advising the president, and showed up at a White House press conference with a black eye \u2013 all in the first half of the year alone.
\n\u201cElon\u2019s attitude is you have to get it done fast. If you\u2019re an incrementalist, you just won\u2019t get your rocket to the moon,\u201d Susie Wiles, Trump\u2019s chief of staff, told Vanity Fair in an expansive interview earlier this month. \u201cAnd so with that attitude, you\u2019re going to break some china.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How the tech CEO and \u2018Dogefather\u2019 made a mess of the year \u2013 from an apparent Nazi salute during his White House tenure to Tesla sales slumps and Starship explosions The year of 2025 was dizzying for Elon Musk. The tech titan began the year holding court with Donald Trump in Washington DC. As the …<\/p>\n

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