Convicted felon President Trump has "told his inner circle, including members of his Cabinet, that Elon Musk will be stepping back in the coming weeks from his current role as governing partner, ubiquitous cheerleader and Washington hatchet man," Politico reports in a story they almost certainly had pre-written before Tuesday and then their source in the White House gave them the go-ahead to print it after Ketamine Brain fucked up the Wisconsin state Supreme Court election.

Probably. The third sentence even says "Musk's looming retreat comes as some Trump administration insiders and many outside allies have become frustrated with his unpredictability and increasingly view the billionaire as a political liability, a dynamic that was thrown into stark relief Tuesday when a conservative judge Musk vocally supported lost his bid for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat by 10 points," and Politico just had to fill in liberal Susan Crawford's margin.

The fat bastard's staff probably wrote the copy toward the end about them being "increasingly relieved that Musk is expected to soon move on from his central role at Trump's side and that the litany of DOGE surprises – which have ranged from a weekend email blast demanding federal workers list their work output to accidental cuts to Ebola prevention programs – might finally be coming to a close. That's to say nothing of their concerns about Musk as a political liability who has served as a rallying point for fractured Democrats," as if the addled egomaniac is going to stay out of the midterms now that he's had a taste of Republicans' groveling and neediness.