Negotiations over an 836,000-square-mile island may fall to a close friend of Elon Musk with experience in deal-making. Just not that kind of deal-making.

Just days before the inauguration, the joke around Washington, DC’s corridors of power is that the Republican leader is now known as Musk’s ‘Vice President Trump’

At the same time, business leaders recognize that there are certain issues on which CEOs will need to educate Trump. He has demonstrated that he genuinely listens to the business community when they come to him in good faith, and that he can change his mind as long as he does not feel trapped, coerced, or humiliated.

President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead what he calls the Department of Government Efficiency — yes, the acronym is DOGE — to “pave the way” for his administration to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.”

After feeling shut out by President Joe Biden, Marc Andreessen has been quietly and successfully recruiting candidates for positions across Trump’s Washington.

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The Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s corporate empire is heavily dependent on government money and favourable regulations

The guest list includes some of America’s most influential tech billionaires and politicians as well as some foreign leaders and celebrities who have embraced Trump.