President Donald Trump is set to hold a media event with Elon Musk, a key architect of the Department of Government Efficiency, on Friday afternoon at the White House as the tech billionaire concludes his tenure as a "special government employee.

Musk looks like the latest victim of a common Trump-era dynamic: the impossibility of sharing the President’s spotlight.

Musk announced his departure a day after an interview clip showed him saying Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill “undermines” DOGE.

"It is very hard to separate Elon Musk's brand from the brand of Tesla, and SpaceX," a Harvard Business fellow told Newsweek.

"I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful," Elon Musk told CBS News, "but I don't know if it can be both."

Catching up to Waymo won't be easy because it has partnered with Uber Technologies, which operates the world's largest ride-hailing network with 170 million monthly users. It could take Tesla years to achieve that level of scale, especially if it builds its own mobility network from scratch.

Jimmy Kimmel was “happy to share some good news from Washington for a change” during his monologue on Thursday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” — Elon Musk stepping away from his role in the Trump administration.

Musk's "off-boarding will begin tonight," a White House official told Reuters on Wednesday. Under US law, special government employees in the executive branch are limited to serving 130 days in a 365-day period. They face fewer strict ethics rules than other federal employees and officials.

Musk warned those involved that President Trump wouldn’t bless the OpenAI data-center project in Abu Dhabi unless his xAI company was included in the deal, according to people familiar with the matter.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk arrived in the nation’s capital with the chain saw-wielding swagger of a tech titan who had never met a problem he couldn’t solve with lots of money, long hours or a well-calibrated algorithm.

On Tuesday afternoon, just a few hours before a launch attempt of the ninth flight test of SpaceX's Starship vehicle, Elon Musk spoke with Ars Technica Senior Space Editor Eric Berger to talk about where his space company goes from here.