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.

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

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.

President Donald Trump was posting about Musk on Truth Social an average of four times per week in February and March

Elon Musk may be taking a step ... tariffs have struck Starlink deals since Trump took office – potentially seeing them as a way to bolster the relationship with the White House.