Twitter, Musk and Trump

Trump's government-worker buyouts are feeling a lot like Musk's Twitter in 2022
The new administration is emailing government employees draft resignation letters. Musk sent a similar email to Twitter staff in 2022.
Trump’s Federal Buyout Memo Has Echoes of Musk’s 2022 Twitter Purge
A new memo offering "deferred resignation" to all federal employees seems to be taking its strategy from Musk's chaotic Twitter takeover.
Trump cribs Musk’s “fork in the road” Twitter memo to slash gov’t workforce
Echoing Elon Musk's approach to thinning out Twitter's staff in 2022, Donald Trump's plan to significantly slash the government workforce now, for a limited time only, includes offering resignation buyouts.
Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government
Elon Musk is only one week into his role in President Donald Trump’s new administration, but the US federal government is already rolling out the Twitter playbook to manage its spending and personnel.
Trump Plan To Slash Federal Workforce Mirrors Elon Musk’s Move At Twitter
Tech billionaire Elon Musk seems to have inspired the Trump administration’s latest bold move to restructure the federal workforce, a move that mirrors the one he made when he bought Twitter. The Trump administration on Tuesday sent a blunt ultimatum to federal employees.
Trump admin offers payouts for resignations in move mirroring Musk's memo at Twitter
The Trump administration offered an ultimatum to some federal employees asking them to choose if they want to resign in a pitch that echoes Elon Musk's moves at Twitter.
Trump Offers Federal Workers a Buyout to Quit. Why It Echoes Musk’s Twitter Playbook.
President Donald Trump has told federal workers to either return to the office or quit. It looks like Elon Musk’s strategy when he bought Twitter. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management made all federal employees a deferred resignation offer Tuesday as it ramps up its return-to-office push.
Donald Trump's federal buyout email bears striking similarities to Musk X purge email
President Donald Trump's offer to buyout federal employees appears to be taking the lead of Elon Musk's playbook for overhauling in X in 2023.
Musk makes joke about Gov. Pritzker's weight on social media, Pritzker fires back
Nothing is more dangerous than getting between JB Pritzker and the buffet table!” Elon Musk wrote from his personal account ...
Elon Musk Looks to Stick a Fork in Federal Government Workers
Around the same time as Musk’s post, hundreds of thousands of federal workers received an email also titled “Fork in the Road ...
Musk team’s push to gut federal workforce bypassed key Trump officials
Billionaire Elon Musk has worked behind the scenes on an initiative aimed at depleting the civil service, prompting questions ...
Musk Said He 'Longs to Get Pregnant'? Not Exactly
In January 2025, a rumor spread online that tech entrepreneur Elon Musk once said he "longs" to be able to get pregnant.
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What Elon Musk should learn from Larry Ellison
Even so, Mr Ellison remains the world’s fifth-richest man, and Oracle the third-biggest software firm. He has a thing or two to teach fellow tech titans, in particular his friend Elon Musk, about ...
Elon Musk Tells Friends He’s Sleeping at the DOGE Offices in DC
In a move straight out of the Twitter and Tesla playbook, Elon Musk is apparently camping out just steps away from the White ...
Elon Musk’s X partners with Visa to provide financial services
Elon Musk’s social media company, X, said on Tuesday that it was teaming up with Visa to provide financial services, in a ...
Wall Street hopes to get rid of a bad Elon Musk bet
Wall Street banks are hoping this is the week when they can start to recover more from the bad bets they made on Elon Musk’s ...