Elon Musk has informed a number of those 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 is predicated out of the Eisenhower Govt 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 night time 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 intently he’s following his tried-and-true playbook from Tesla and Twitter (now X).
Throughout busy durations at Tesla, Musk was recognized for sleeping on the manufacturing unit ground. “It was my main residence,” he claimed throughout an interview with Ron Baron in 2022. He mentioned the transfer was strategic, as he wished workers to see him. “That is essential as a result of if the group thinks their chief is off someplace having time, consuming Mai Tais on a tropical island, which I positively might have been doing … for the reason that group might 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 consuming cocktails on a tropical island resurfaced after Musk grew to become Twitter’s greatest shareholder within the spring of 2022. In textual content messages to his pal, the podcaster and angel investor Jason Calacanis, Musk mentioned Twitter’s newly appointed CEO Parag Agrawal was on a 10-day trip in Hawaii. On the time, Musk had been toying with the thought of becoming a member of Twitter’s board of administrators, however was rising more and more annoyed with Agrawal. He doubted the 2 might work collectively.
“Btw, Parag continues to be on a ten day trip in Hawaii,” Musk informed Calacanis. “No purpose to chop it brief … in your first tour as ceo (!!!),” Calcanis responded, presumably with a touch of sarcasm. “Shouldn’t he be in a warfare room proper now?!?” Musk then mentioned: “Does doing occasional zoom calls whereas consuming fruity cocktails on the 4 Seasons rely?” (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 an alternative.
After the acquisition was full, Musk started sleeping on the Twitter workplaces in San Francisco. Staff noticed him pacing the ground late at night time and being escorted to the toilet by his safety guards. He even tried to get a toilet put in subsequent to his workplace so he wouldn’t must trek throughout the ground throughout his stays.
Musk’s lieutenant Steve Davis, CEO of the Boring Firm, who has reportedly been recruiting employees to work at DOGE, additionally quickly 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 e-mail to federal staff titled “a fork within the street.”
“The federal workforce ought to be comprised of workers who’re dependable, loyal, reliable, and who attempt for excellence of their each day work,” the e-mail learn. It directed workers to return to the workplace 5 days every week, and decide to a tradition of excellence, or successfully resign and proceed receiving advantages and pay by means of September.
The memo intently echoed a observe Musk despatched to Twitter employees shortly after shopping for the corporate. In that observe, despatched November 16, 2022, Musk informed staffers they’d must decide to working lengthy, intense hours to appreciate 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’ll should be extraordinarily hardcore,” he wrote. “This may imply working lengthy hours at excessive depth. Solely distinctive efficiency will represent a passing grade.”
