A lot of this going on in response to a simple observation that things this week haven’t gone exactly according to Elon’s plans, ie a SpaceX setback and Trump’s big beautiful bill reversing some what of Elon saw as DOGE’s progress. Appreciate his accomplishments, but don’t worship the man.

Reporter, writer and analyst. I cover energy, climate change and geopolitics. Contact me via my website www.alexanderckaufman.com and subscribe to kaufman.nyc.

I’m definitely making a mountain out of a molehill with this, and I get your point is just that it’s just 2 large public things that didn’t go the way he wanted them to in one week, but 2 things on the spacex thing:

A lot of people are going to bristle at it because people who are anti Elon for other things often just use the spacex test fails as a dunk

Buy beyond that it’s not really even the same frame of judgment. People look at it from the outside as binary success/fail when the people doing these things look at it iteratively. I get the criticism of this that it makes it seem asymmetric where success is awesome but failure is no big deal, but that’s baked into it imo