New government policies authored by Musk forbid telecommuting from Mar-a-Lago.
Donald Trump must work in the White House Oval Office every weekday as President and there will be no more telecommuting allowed from such places as his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, says shadow U.S. President Elon Musk.
Musk, co-head of the new non-governmental Department on Government Efficiency (DOGE), ruled that all federal employees like Trump must report to work in person.
Trump will be required to wear his government I.D. badge around his neck at all times during work hours. He must also write his name on a sign-in timesheet to verify he’s in the office during workdays.
In other words, Musk says Trump won’t be allowed to be at Mar-a-Lago Monday through Friday or at some other off-site playing golf or sitting around on a deck chair complaining about all the illegal immigrants that he claims are ruining the country and that he pledges to throw out of America the first day he’s in the White House.
Musk said requiring Donald Trump and all his fellow government employees to be in the office will ensure that they are not goofing off at home. He has it on good authority, said Musk, that “too lenient” telecommuting perks allow employees to sleep on government time at their home residence. Either that, or they go bowling, spend afternoons at movie theaters, or drink in bars and restaurants, instead of being at the office trading malicious gossip about fellow employees.
During his last 4-year term as President, Trump visited or stayed at one of his various properties 394 days. That figure, according to government accountability experts, amounted to almost one third of his time in office at one of his properties, or well over a year of his presidency. He stayed at Mar-a-Lago 134 times. This, despite the fact that when he ran for president in 2015, he promised he would rarely leave the White House because he would be too busy being the leader of the United States.
Musk maintained that “telecommuting just means more government waste and inefficiency.” Musk leads DOGE along with Vivek Ramaswamy, who Musk says that “besides having a foreign name nobody can pronounce,” better “learn who’s really the boss at DOGE. And that’s me, the richest man in the world, Elon Musk.”
Meanwhile, Ramaswamy says telecommuting means people are watching too much junk television at home instead of having the pleasure of fighting traffic jams on the streets and highways or surrounded by mobs of passengers on mass transit on their way to work.
Musk said the new rules will serve as a good way to help reduce the federal workforce through attrition as many employees may decide to quit rather than be forced to show up at the office every day. If Trump decides as a federal employee he doesn’t appreciate some jerky outsider telling him what to do, would he want to quit too and go find another job or just decide to retire once and for all and sit around complaining about his bitter enemies such as Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, or Liz Cheney?
More likely, as a confirmed megalomaniac not to mention egomaniac, he would fire Musk and Ramaswamy, as his record shows he gets his kicks from firing people. (See: Trump: TV show: “The Apprentice.”
“Since I’m running things,” said Musk, “play time is over. Government workers either will follow my rules or they’ll be terminated. I don’t care who they are. When Elon Musk talks, people better listen.”
The fact Musk assumes he’s totally in charge has already inevitably raised tensions with his colleague Ramaswamy, who says he’s actually the absolute big boss of everything government related, not Musk.
“I don’t know where that clown gets off saying he’s Number One. The truth is, I’m Number One,” claimed Ramaswamy.
Musk countered by saying Ramaswamy “must be crazy if he said that. He reports to me. Besides, he looks like a foreigner. Shouldn’t he be deported?”
“He should talk,” responded Ramaswamy. “Musk isn’t even legally here in America. He’s from South Africa. He stayed here illegally, and the truth is he should be thrown out of this country with all the other illegal aliens.”
What’s ironic about the creation of DOGE in supposedly attacking government inefficiency, say interested onlookers, is that it may become equally bloated and inefficient in the same way that the federal government is accused of (not) operating.
Take for instance, the already feuding Musk and Ramaswamy spending all day arguing which one of them is in charge of government efficiency.
Asked what he thought of the new government rules about not being allowed to telecommute, Trump said he didn’t know what Musk and Ramaswamy were talking about. “I’ll be at Mar-a-Lago whenever I feel like it. I’m the president, not them. Aren’t I?”
Also asked about the feud between his picks to run DOGE, Trump said he’s not sure what’s going on with them. But it doesn’t really matter, he said.
“I’ll be down at Mar-a-Lago hosting my rich buddies, so don’t bother me with that crap,” said the once and future Chief Executive. “If they keep it up, I’ll get rid of them both and appoint the brilliant Marjorie Taylor Greene to make the government more efficient. She’ll know how to Make America Great Again. Okay?”
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