Donald Trump blocked Elon Musk from attending a top-secret Pentagon briefing about China, saying, “What the f— is Elon doing there? Make sure he doesn’t go,” according to a top official who spoke to Axios.
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A meeting at the Pentagon with Musk and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth still went ahead that day, but China wasn’t discussed.
After The New York Times reported on March 20 that the meeting had been set up, Trump dismissed the story as “Fake News” on Truth Social.
I think at this point Trump is like a giant gorilla in the room. You have to distract him with something and hope he will not get angry or interrupt anything serious. He doesn’t really understand what’s going on around him, he just randomly picks up things and plays with them until he gets bored. You can never interrupt or correct him but real work happens behind his back.