Musk wants to leave politics because he's tired of 'attacks' from the left, report says

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Monday 21 April 2025 17:51 BST


Elon Musk is reportedly set to leave his government role because he’s tired of the what he sees as a litany of vicious and unethical attacks from the left, according to a report from The Washington Post.

It remains unclear when Musk will depart as head of the Department of Government Efficiency; his special government employee status will expire at the end of next month. A person familiar with his thinking told The Post that Musk thinks that his work at DOGE won’t be diminished because of his departure, noting that staffers have already established themselves across a slew of federal agencies.

But speculation of Musk’s possible departure comes as his influence in the administration appears to wane. The New York Times reported last week that the acting commissioner of the IRS was being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained that Musk had his preferred candidate installed without Bessent’s support. Musk has also annoyed other cabinet members by failing to coordinate with them in cost-cutting moves.

Meanwhile, Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives has said that Musk should leave his government role and once again focus his efforts on Tesla, arguing that the company is facing a “code red” moment.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-donald-trump-doge-b2736753.html

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He's not needed anymore. All his lethal destroyers and other booby-traps are now in place in every agency like a virus.

[Vinca]

1. Translation: he's raked in as much money in government largesse as he can and now he's off to loot elsewhere.

I imagine with the magic "Golden Dome" project he'll pass his trillion-dollar goal. Thanks, King Donald.

[NCDem47]

38. And/Or...

"There's too much truth telling and exposing my past."

[homegirl]

44. Time for "all out"

on Musk:

No more government contracts for billions, not even for $1.99!
Investigation and hearings by the House and Senate of all Musk government contracts.

Same for erroneous granting of U.S. Citizenship based on false statements on application to enter the USA.

Kick the punk out!!!!

[live love laugh]

62. He's raked in bazillion$ in mineable data.

[kimbutgar]

2. Meaning he is losing lot of money not selling his Tesla's and losing money on Twitter

And has been exposed as the villain he is by supporting, rigging the election and putting in the White House the orange Hitler!

Bye bye Elon you won’t be missed!

[unblock]

3. He's decimated the agencies that were investigating him, and he's extracted all the data he can profit from.

Mission accomplished.

[PortTack]

93. Ding ding ding

[Irish_Dem]

104. And he has destroyed the entire US govt for his friend Putin.

[Trueblue1968]

117. Dont let the door hit your smelly, ugly ass on your way out MuskOx !!!!!! I hate your guts.

#DeportMusk

[CBHagman]

124. But the lawsuits will come.

He's not going to be able to make everything go away.

[Inkey]

126. Unfortunately he might be able to

Sue and impoverish many of his
detractors for his own amusement.
Who knows with these people any more.

[bluestarone]

4. WA, WA ,WA losing money is not fun any more

Talk about a LOSER!!! Please take STINKY with you.

[Hornedfrog2000]

40. He will be worth double what he is in a year i bet

He got what he wanted. He is making shit up about why hes leaving. He stole every bit of data russia needed in a few months. They literally ransacked the bank vault under the guise they were gonna catch the robbers, now they are strolling out hands in their pockets whistling as they wait to haul it out the backdoor at the perfect time.

[CountAllVotes]

5. whelp

Loser boy didn't last long -- not even 100 days.

GOOD RIDDANCE!

[Cha]

52. lol. We're Burning 🔥🔥🔥

The Teslas and it looks like mump is throwing in towel.. maybe. We’ll see 🔥

[Iamscrewed]

6. Timely departure

Run before the corruption charges come.
Oh and then treason, insider trading, possible racketeering, ect, ect, adnosiem.

[Karasu]

7. Then maybe his thin-skinned billionaire ass shouldn't have thrown his fucking hat in the ring in the first place.

Or his money. Or his fucking DOGE.

Can't stand the heat? Get the fuck out of the kitchen. Or better yet, don't even open the fucking door.

Get fucked, Elon.

[Wicked Blue]

8. He's already set up the federal data pipeline to Russia

and looted whatever he could find in the government.

F'ing snowflake

[NEOH]

9. Eloon, don't let the door...nt

[PSPS]

10. As a "special employee," he had to leave anyway sometime in May anyway.

[eggplant]

15. I came here to say this.

[BumRushDaShow]

33. Supposedly a 120 day appointment

But 45 insisted, like he has done everything else, that he planned to "ignore the rules".

[Old Testament Libera]

11. Good! He can go sequester himself...

...at Space X with him six dozen offspring and his tech bros.

[relayerbob]

12. OK, we can start with the fact

That he is NOT a government official. DOGE is NOT an actual agency.

Then, we can continue with..... Good fucking riddance. And hopefully, he takes down Tesla, along with his career.

Next up, deport him, since he apparently got his citizenship illegally.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. NOW WE KNOW WHAT TO DO MORE OF !!

Keep it up until he's GONE.

Jail him, deport him, hang him -- I really don't care. JUST GET RID OF HIM.

[lonely bird]

111. Wait until

We confiscate his assets.

Then he can fuck off.

[kacekwl]

14. See ya. And take your young

Nazi team with you.

[Aristus]

16. Okay, Federal judiciary; do your thing. Musk doesn't have Trump's poisonous SCOTUS immunity.

Time to get, as the miniseries "I, Claudius" worded it: some justice.

[Grokenstein]

17. Ha ha, he thinks it's going to stop.

Better flee the country, little lord illegal. Take the money and run, and hope you don't get "detained."

[drmeow]

18. That's OK

I'll be happy to continue to attack, villify, and be thoroughly vicious to him after he leaves government and up until the day he dies. He is using up air, food, and shelter that could go to a far more redeeming person aka almost anyone not involved with this administration.

[Marie Marie]

19. OFFS another thin skinned bully. He really is bothered that

people don't like him anymore. Good! These narcissists are so surrounded by worshippers that when they get a glimpse at reality - they fall apart. Good riddance.

[Canada Kid]

20. Can't get lost fast enough!

I can hold the door open for him and hope it doesn't hit him in the ass on the way out!

[sheshe2]

92. ...

[Ol Janx Spirit]

21. Remember the comic book where Batman pulled up stakes and fled Gotham City...

...because all of the criminals were saying bad things about him? Probably not--because doing something on principle means you can take the attacks and the criticism. This really only demonstrates how much principle was behind his moves all along--as all of us at DU knew anyway.

It is far less about extracting everything he could from this relationship and then running back to the private sector to sit on his ever-growing mountain of money; and more about running into a situation thinking he knew a lot more than he did and screwing the whole thing up while damaging his own business brands in the process.

There was far more for Elon to gain from this relationship even beyond the supposed principles he had to destroy Democrats and liberals in government, but he proved even to F-47 that he was an amateurish imbecile with a god complex and a bunch of bad ideas--and breaking through to that guy takes a lot of effort.

[Deminpenn]

22. Good, don't let the door hit you, but remember YOU are still the face of all the chaos

You will continue to be mocked and villified for political gain regardless.

I'm willing to bet that all the DOGE stuff you did will be quickly reversed by Bessent, Rubio and others.

[Buns_of_Fire]

23. Maybe he's trolling for Donwuld to beg him to stay.

After all, he's absorbing a lot of the heat that should probably be pumped up Donwuld's cloaca.

[Irish_Dem]

24. Musk has stolen, sold, destroyed the US federal govt. His job his done.

[efhmc]

25. I have searched everywhere and do not remember issuing him an invitation to do anything in my government.

[marble falls]

26. If he thinks he can just walk away from this like his contribution to the mess we're in will just ...

... go away, he is sadly mistaken.

[electric_blue68]

68. Oh, hopefully!!!!!

[Lovie777]

27. Silent VP...........

[dweller]

28. Here's the door , Leon

Yes it’s in the floor but it’s a door all the same .
It leads straight to Hell , good riddance




✌🏻

[Hassler]

29. Yeah Leon, get back to what you do best

Creating shit hole trucks.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

30. Let us play you out to the street...

~ The DU Synchronized Tiniest Violin Team

[usonian]

31. He forgot the password to the Treasury's computers.

Stream dried up.

And people are NOT going to forget.

Especially at Christmas.

[Ponietz]

39. That one belongs in a meme hall of fame

I laugh every time I see it.

[iluvtennis]

32. Hit the road jack, and dontch come back no more. n/t

[FloridaBlues]

34. After he dismantled our government and doing great damage to everyone but the rich.

[Onthefly]

35. Evil selfless thief. You will still lurk in the whiteman's house.

[patphil]

36. And now to the payoff phase.

Phase 1: Invade as many Federal Agencies as possible.
Phase 2: Loot these agencies of all useful computer information they contained.
Phase 3: Get all that stolen information to a safe place. Note: out of country for sure.
Phase 4: See to it that their tracks are covered so the actual heist isn't easily identifiable.
Phase 5: Assess the value of what they stole so they can send their bill directly to Putin.
Phase 6: Laugh all the way to the bank.

[TearsOfDaClowned]

82. BINGO! This is the Joker shouting "Goodnight Suckers!" from the rooftop!

[radical noodle]

114. Welcome to DU

[marble falls]

115. ... with a 400# gargoyle/Mango Jebus chained to his ankle ...

... no amount of mea culpa, I was only following orders, the libruls sabotaged, executive immunity will change anything: his hand-prints were all over the disaster.

I wonder if he's extorted a Presidential immunity/pardon out of Mango yet.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

120. Welcome to DU

[Ponietz]

37. Musk is bleeding money like the shithead pillow guy

[bluescribbler]

41. "He's not needed anymore"???

He was never needed.

[xuplate]

42. What a baby

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I’m going to take my toys and go home.

[calimary]

43. All I've got:

[SuzannaD]

45. Attacks will never end

He's exposed himself as the idiot Nazi that he is and always has been. Whether he's in Washington or anywhere else, he's going to have to deal with everyone's negative opinions. Hope they don't buy his shit, or give him government contracts anymore. For every one of his businesses, we should find an alternative and use it.

[struggle4progress]

46. We need a national "Sympathize with Elon or die in a Salvadoran prison" day

[dchill]

47. You're not in politics, Elon. You're in crime.

And no, leaving now won't make it go away.

[Cha]

48. You ain't seen nothing yet, shitler

From a NON Fascist

[Fla Dem]

49. Bet he and his crew of thieves have established undetectable access to many of our country's systems.

They don't need to be there in person anymore.

[Paladin]

50. Astoundingly good riddance.

Here's hoping Musk, his Swasticars, and his personal finances suffer the same fate as others who have been stupid enough to make common cause with trump---paging Pillow Guy!

[Pisces]

51. The rats are jumping!

[SSJVegeta]

53. I suspect, maybe rather hope, that without him, the agency simply wont be so damaging

Maybe wishful thinking tho

[Metaphorical]

121. It probably will whither on the vine

A funny thing happens when you become the head of an agency. You've been handed the keys to the feifdom, and even if you are an incompetent imbecile, it's YOUR domain. Musk didn't respect that, essentially assumed he could do anything he wanted to and with Trump backing him up, there was nothing you could do about it. I suspect that with Musk gone, DOGE will fall apart pretty quickly.

[tanyev]

54. Aww. Finding out isn't nearly as much fun as f**king around.

[Blues Heron]

55. Cool! Keep the pressure up! He's feeling it in the purse!

Fuck Nazi Elon!

[ToxMarz]

56. Leave Earth, please!

[zorbasd]

57. That POS owns and controls the worlds largest propaganda

outlet in the world, is butt hurt from the "vicious and unethical attacks from the left"
Projecting much, you dickless human excrement.

[Karasu]

61. Literally the richest man in the world. Fucking pathetic.

[BeyondGeography]

58. Leave the planet

Maybe then we can talk.

[sakabatou]

59. Someone! Call the WAAAAHHHHmbulence!

[Buddyzbuddy]

60. I'm leaving because it's my choice not because my time has expired.

Trying to control the narrative, huh Leon. Too late, you may still be rich but you're a loser. You have been exposed for the cretin that you are. Like the Felon, you alone are responsible for the failure of Tesla. Not because of the product but because your ego and greed got in the way. You have shown your cards before all bets have been placed. America will now do what it can to thwart your goals. Like in Wisconsin, your money will be useless. We know you.
Voters know, the more money backing a candidate the more likely it's for a bad candidate without merit. Fool them once, shame on you, fool them twice shame on them. There's been far too much shame on them.

[aggiesal]

63. Like rats abandoning a sinking ship. This NLRB whistleblower is accusing DOGE of giving passwords to Russia ...

Federal whistleblower dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures.

DOGE came in, data went out, Russians attempting logins w/new valid DOGE passwords.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1913023007263543565.html

[Justice matters.]

97. Yep. If the crime of TREASON is only valid during wartime, THEFT (of data)

Personal data robbery is a crime in both wartime and peacetime.

[calimary]

64. Oh WAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

Things not going your way, Elon? We know all about that shit. YOU made it and YOU pushed us into it.

[Tikki]

65. Where I live..So Cal..the musk haters are not all on the Left.

He is so bad it is defining every aspect of life in America.

Tikki

[mdbl]

72. He's delusional to think he's only F'd up peoples lives on the left

I hope his companies go down in flames - metaphorically speaking of course.

[thought crime]

78. Pretty much everyone is qualified to be a Nazi hater.

[Alice B.]

66. Wah.

[Qutzupalotl]

67. Now do Trump.

[emulatorloo]

69. Promises, promises. I'll believe it when I see it

[RainCaster]

70. BFD. Send him back to South Africa

Let's be rid of him!

[republianmushroom]

71. thank God and greyhound, he will be gone.

[Bristlecone]

73. The left aka "The Board of Directors"

They will 100 percent oust him and have made that clear to him.

That’s my guess.

Or Trump is telling him time to go.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

74. Aw, poor widdle baby

for the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man.

[chouchou]

75. 1/2 of the Bull is exiting the China Shop.

[LizBeth]

76. He will always be the Nazis salute.

[thought crime]

81. Never, ever forget.

[regnaD kciN]

77. Womp womp...

[MadScout]

79. Snowflake

[Pinback]

80. He'll need to leave Earth

if he wants to avoid criticism. Come on, Elon — blaze the trail to Mars!

[Clouds Passing]

83. Mean mean lefties

[Walleye]

84. Geez, Elon destroy the livelihoods of 10 of thousands of people And they tend to take it personally

[vapor2]

85. Taking doge with him?

[Dulcinea]

86. Everything Trump touches dies.

Goodbye & good riddance, asswipe. No one wants his cars, the thing formerly known as Twitter sucks, & he's being exposed more every day as a sick, selfish, insufferable being with the mentality of a spoiled teenager.

[FullySupportDems]

87. He wouldn't recognize the left if it walked up and punched him in the nose

What the hell does he care what "the left" thinks? Lies on top of lies on top of lies.

[Marthe48]

88. When did smash and grab

Become politics? skum imposed himself on the government, thanks to taking advantage of a senile old man and since skum has invaded, has done nothing remotely political or statesmanlike. If he were honest, skum would say he's tired of being called out as a criminal and is leaving the area of public scrutiny.

[Blue Owl]

89. Goodbye Leon

I hope I never see your face again

[Hotler]

90. So, we won't forget and if we take power again your ass is going to prison. nt

[AncientOfDays]

91. With him gone,

it will take awhile, but his people will be ousted one by one, and his destruction will be repaired little by little. And hopefully we can gain control and close the damn barn door so it can't happen again.

[sheshe2]

94. He stole all he needed to enrich himself.

He bought and paid for a trump 'residency and for installing the next 'resident. He bought our Democracy.

[PortTack]

95. Don't let the door hit ya in the arse....you could win back a few friends if you'd take orange one with you!

[Scalded Nun]

96. You will own this misery until way beyond the day you die. And you forgot 1 very important reality...

Once you touch or are touched by Trump, you will rot on the vine.

[Demovictory9]

98. don't let the door hit you in your lying ass

[LittleGirl]

99. He got the government data.

He’s been paid and can now go stir up trouble elsewhere.
He’s whining and should be saying “squirrel” !
Because I don’t believe a word reported about him.

[Woodycall]

100. My hope is that...

...he will be forced to move into a 2 bedroom, 40 year old single-wide with Rudy Giuliani and Mike Lindell with the ashes of Herman Cain next to toilet.

[Jack Valentino]

101. GOOD!------ Bravo, amigos!

Musk's ass-kissing of Trump over the past six months, and trying to destroy our government,
has provoked me into fantasizing about his death,
when I never gave him any thought before.

If he does go away from politics, then he will have 'chosen wisely' !

[niyad]

102. And ***I *** want him to leave because I am sick of him attacking us.

Projection much, you sick, twisted, illegal SA nazi???

[RainCaster]

103. Boohoohoo - such a whiny baby

That loser will NEVER make it in politics, he has such a fragile ego.

[MayReasonRule]

105. Behold The Field In Which I Grow My Fucks As Mr. Pink Plays The World's Smallest Violin...

[Javaman]

106. don't believe him. he still has a lot of power to fuck things over

and he really won't be gone.

I expect him to fuck with things even though he has "left".

he has tasted from the fountain of real power, he's not just going to vanish.

[JohnSJ]

107. I hope no one buys his f**king cars until the Tesla board fires his sorry ass.

[NNadir]

108. Deport the bastard. Along with Rupert Murdoch he's the most dangerous immigrant ever.

[mwb970]

109. America is tired of "attacks" from Musk.

It's why everyone hates you, little Elon. Wake up!

[hadEnuf]

110. "what he sees as a litany of vicious and unethical attacks from the left"

He said that with a straight face? Look at what this evil bastard has done to our country. He's lucky he's not exiled.

[Chi67]

112. Wow! Clueless!

Someone needs to tell this douchebag that he attacked our country first! We’re simply defending ourselves. BTW, no matter what, we’re taking Tesla down. Bye bye, Musk!

[Kid Berwyn]

113. So the NAZI's grabbed all he wanted.

Auf wiedersehen, Scheisskopf.

[Mblaze]

116. Too late Elon

The whole world hates you.

[LogDog75]

118. Fuck Elon's feelings

He works directly for Drumpf and he knows what kind of person Drumpf is. How many times and the Muskrat called out Drumpf for is name calling and personal attacks on others.

Muskrat, if you won't condemn what Drumpf says the we won't condemn what people say about you.

[Martin68]

119. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

[Emrys]

122. Wannabe tough guy picks fights with all-comers, then whines when they dare to hit back.

What a snowflake.

He's lucky retaliation's just been confined to words and money.

[CBHagman]

123. He's going to need the free time to deal with all the lawsuits...

...and not just because he's corrupt, though he clearly is that, but because of the many violations of the law. The security risks alone ought to keep him in courthouses for the foreseeable future.

[patricia92243]

125. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.