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.

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 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

U.S. President Donald Trump will host South Africa’s leader at the White House for a meeting that might be tense.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is slated to meet with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday in an attempt to salvage the fraught relationship between the two countries.

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is hosting South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for White House talks Wednesday at a moment when relations between the two countries are at a nadir, with Trump laying into South African officials on widely rejected charges of allowing a “genocide” against minority white farmers.