other things. i think musk s fundamental problem is something called the dunning krueger effect which is the tendency of people who are not familiar with the topic to assume it s a lot easier than it looks. and as a consequence, they kind of say, i could do that. i think that s exactly what he s done. i think he said, hey, wait a minute, this can t be that hard, and he looked at the business which was losing i think $4 million a day when he bought it and said i m just going to get rid of all these people because most of them aren t working that hard, which by the way, may have been true. but the point is, they all did something very, very important. and so he s gotten rid of, believe it or not, almost three-quarters of the people if you take the contractors as well as the core employees. almost three-quarters of the people are gone. and as a consequence, all moderation, everything to protect users, everything to protect democracy, has been removed. and he s just winging it. and there s
and he can t fathom the idea of a career official. yes, political appointee, suspect. if you worked over-obama, how could you possibly work for me. that is his mindset. trump s organization is a family business. it was basically about a dozen core employees, his cfo has been with him since fred trump. he enters the white house and there is a sea of people he has never seen before. there used to be meetings where trump turns around and scans the wall. ashley, you guys are in the business of covering the white house. you are all acting like it is the dismay, the mistrust, that he has reason to wonder about the disloyalty of the president. they talk to the press all day