"Elon's attitude is you have to get it done fast. If you're an incrementalist, you just won't get your rocket to the moon, Susie Wiles, Trump's chief of staff, told Vanity Fair in an expansive interview earlier this month. And so with that attitude, you're going to break some china. Musk saw huge, multibillion-dollar wins and equally large losses in business this year. In his dealings with federal agencies, he was able to secure new enormous government contracts and expand SpaceX's operations."
"Rightwing influencer Ashley St Clair sued Musk in February for custody of their five-month-old baby, revealing that Musk had fathered a 13th publicly documented child, for a total of now 14 children. As Musk made regular attacks in posts on X against transgender people, his estranged daughter Vivian Wilson, who is trans, was featured in New York magazine and modeled at New York fashion week."
Elon Musk began 2025 publicly aligning with Donald Trump and made a series of controversial appearances, including an apparent Nazi salute at Trump's inauguration, denying drug-addiction reports while advising the president, and arriving at a White House press conference with a black eye. Musk emphasized a fast, break-things approach to engineering and management. Musk secured major federal contracts and expanded SpaceX, while Tesla won approval for a pay package that could make him a trillionaire amid plunging global sales. The year brought protests, lawsuits, executive departures, a $600bn year-end fortune, and disruptive personal controversies including additional children, attacks on transgender people, and family abuse allegations.
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