Trump vs. Musk - who will win the race to become the first US dictator?

Speaking of blowing up as @commando does below,  Musk managed to blow up the cabinet meeting and the blowback was restrictions on what he could do.   Rubio and a few others displayed a little backbone during the dustup with Musk.   Trump has told Musk that the secretaries are in control of their departments and Musk's team can only recommend.  First thing I've agree with Trump on in some time. 

https://archive.is/YXRxy#selection-837.0-863.380



 


Marco Rubio was incensed. Here he was in the Cabinet Room of the White House, the secretary of state, seated beside the president and listening to a litany of attacks from the richest man in the world.
Seated diagonally opposite, across the elliptical mahogany table, Elon Musk was letting Mr. Rubio have it, accusing him of failing to slash his staff.
You have fired “nobody,” Mr. Musk told Mr. Rubio, then scornfully added that perhaps the only person he had fired was a staff member from his Department of Government Efficiency.
Mr. Rubio had been privately furious with Mr. Musk for weeks, ever since his DOGE team effectively shuttered an entire agency that was supposedly under Mr. Rubio’s control: the United States Agency for International Development. But, in the extraordinary cabinet meeting in front of the president and around 20 others — details of which have not been reported before — Mr. Rubio got his grievances off his chest.



 




 




Mr. Musk was not being truthful, Mr. Rubio said. What about the more than 1,500 State Department officials who took early retirement in buyouts? Didn’t they count as layoffs? He asked, sarcastically, whether Mr. Musk wanted him to rehire all those people just so he could make a show of firing them again. Then he laid out his detailed plans for reorganizing the State Department.
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Meanwhile  DOD is about to terminate many

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/03/pentagon-placing-probationary-employees-admin-leave-preparation-mass-firings/403566/?oref=d1-homepage-top-story

Mass firings began at the Defense Department this week, with multiple organizations receiving direction to place targeted probationary employees on administrative leave pending official action by the department.

There are 55,000 total probationary employees at DOD, according to Pentagon data shared with lawmakers this week and provided to Defense One. An undisclosed number of them began receiving notification of their new status on Monday. They are expected to be officially terminated 14 to 21 days later, according to the information provided.

The firings are part of staff reductions initiated since January by the Department of Government Efficiency, a White House advisory board. While other agencies have seen across-the-board cuts of recent hires, the Pentagon hadn’t taken broad action until this week. DOD officials have announced plans to fire 5,400 probationary employees, then freeze hiring and prepare a 5- to 8-percent cut of all civilian workers.
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