Elon Musk has informed a number of people who he has been sleeping on the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) headquarters in Washington, DC, WIRED has discovered, as he works to train management over the federal authorities. DOGE relies out of the Eisenhower Government Workplace Constructing, simply steps from the White Home.
At an unique black-tie dinner hosted by the Alfalfa Membership final week, Musk informed associates that he’d even been invited to spend the evening within the White Home itself within the Lincoln Bed room.
The information exhibits how deeply Musk has embedded himself in President Donald Trump’s orbit—and the way carefully he’s following his tried-and-true playbook from Tesla and Twitter (now X).
Throughout busy intervals at Tesla, Musk was identified for sleeping on the manufacturing unit ground. “It was my major residence,” he claimed throughout an interview with Ron Baron in 2022. He stated the transfer was strategic, as he needed staff to see him. “That is essential as a result of if the workforce thinks their chief is off someplace having a great time, ingesting Mai Tais on a tropical island, which I positively may have been doing … because the workforce may see me sleeping on the ground throughout shift change, they knew I used to be there, and that made an enormous distinction, they gave it their all.”
The imaginative and prescient of a pacesetter ingesting cocktails on a tropical island resurfaced after Musk turned Twitter’s greatest shareholder within the spring of 2022. In textual content messages to his pal, the podcaster and angel investor Jason Calacanis, Musk stated Twitter’s newly appointed CEO Parag Agrawal was on a 10-day trip in Hawaii. On the time, Musk had been toying with the concept of becoming a member of Twitter’s board of administrators, however was rising more and more annoyed with Agrawal. He doubted the 2 may work collectively.
“Btw, Parag remains to be on a ten day trip in Hawaii,” Musk informed Calacanis. “No motive to chop it brief … in your first tour as ceo (!!!),” Calcanis responded, presumably with a touch of sarcasm. “Shouldn’t he be in a conflict room proper now?!?” Musk then stated: “Does doing occasional zoom calls whereas ingesting fruity cocktails on the 4 Seasons depend?” (The messages have been later revealed as a part of the invention course of in a lawsuit between Musk and Twitter).
In the end, Musk determined he couldn’t save Twitter with Agrawal on the helm, and he purchased the corporate as a substitute.
After the acquisition was full, Musk started sleeping on the Twitter workplaces in San Francisco. Workers noticed him pacing the ground late at evening and being escorted to the toilet by his safety guards. He even tried to get a rest room put in subsequent to his workplace so he wouldn’t need to trek throughout the ground throughout his stays.
Musk’s lieutenant Steve Davis, CEO of the Boring Firm, who has reportedly been recruiting workers to work at DOGE, additionally briefly moved into Twitter HQ along with his spouse and new child child.
Earlier this week, the US Workplace of Personnel Administration, which is already stacked with Musk lackeys, despatched an electronic mail to federal employees titled “a fork within the street.”
“The federal workforce ought to be comprised of staff who’re dependable, loyal, reliable, and who attempt for excellence of their every day work,” the e-mail learn. It directed staff to return to the workplace 5 days per week, and decide to a tradition of excellence, or successfully resign and proceed receiving advantages and pay by September.
The memo carefully echoed a word Musk despatched to Twitter workers shortly after shopping for the corporate. In that word, despatched November 16, 2022, Musk informed staffers they’d have to decide to working lengthy, intense hours to understand his new imaginative and prescient for the corporate—in any other case they need to resign. “Going ahead, to construct a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and reach an more and more aggressive world, we are going to should be extraordinarily hardcore,” he wrote. “It will imply working lengthy hours at excessive depth. Solely distinctive efficiency will represent a passing grade.”
