Billionaire Elon Musk says he will spend a lot less time hanging out with President Donald Trump starting in May. And it’s probably time.

Musk’s big personality and nontraditional family life have become a distraction to his work heading DOGE, the government efficiency project he’s led since the beginning of Trump's term. 

What I fear, though, is that Democrats will notch Musk’s retreat as a “win.”

And that could set a seriously bad precedent. 

Liberals who are appalled that Musk, the CEO of Tesla, is anywhere close to the halls of government power have not handled it well, to put it mildly. That’s despite the fact Trump ran on downsizing the bureaucracy and has simply followed through on that promise.

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