After another exhausting week of Elon Musk’s chaotic West Wing antics, even President Trump is starting to understand why America has only one president at a time. Far from being an extra hand in his effort to dismantle the federal government, the mega-billionaire is rapidly becoming one of Trump’s biggest political and legal liabilities.

Musk’s latest scheme — asking millions of federal workers to send uncoordinated emails explaining what they do all day — seems to have been too much even for the president’s closest lieutenants. Newly installed FBI Director Kash Patel instructed his employees to ignore Musk’s demands. So did the State Department and the Pentagon. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) called the email “absurd.” Tough crowd.

Musk endeared himself to Trump by pledging to do the heavy lifting of slashing federal spending while Trump played the role of marketer-in-chief. Instead, Musk sparked a costly (and very public) power struggle between Cabinet officials and his Department of Government Efficiency. With a

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