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The big news during his weekend stay was that Trump, Elon Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio dined at Mar-a-Lago on the heels of reports of a Rubio-Musk blow-up at a White House Cabinet meeting on March 6. Also present that evening at the Palm Beach club was Fox News personality Sean Hannity.
The Tesla innovator becomes the latest government employee to lose his job.
As Musk steps back from his government role, we look back at the unforgettable, and often controversial, moments that made his time in Washington stand out.
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He fell from grace as effortlessly as he rose. Like a dime-store Icarus, he took too many chances, never understood the risks and flew too close to the sun. Wrapped in the halo of his social-media superstardom, he was blinded to the reality of his circumstances until it was too late.
Tensions have reached a boiling point between Elon Musk and Trump's cabinet, highlighted by a profanity-laced confrontation over IRS leadership. Musk's attempts to bypass protocol and implement sweeping spending cuts through his DOGE initiative have sparked outrage.