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Elon Musk enhancing the cover of Time Magazine might spell disaster for the DOGE-running tech billionaire.

Time's most current issue reveals Musk sitting behind the Resolute Desk - where President Donald Trump must be placed - in the Oval Office.

' No,' Trump initially responded in the Oval Office Friday along with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba when asked if he had a reaction to Musk's cover.

After a long pause, he then sardonically responded: 'Is Time Magazine still in organization? I didn't even know that.'

He included: 'Elon is doing a terrific job. He's finding incredible fraud and corruption and waste,' the president added, indicating the work the billionaire has done collapsing USAID. 'He's got a personnel that's wonderful. He's wanted to do this for a very long time.'

Trump had actually promoted being called Time's Person of the Year himself in 2015.

In February of 2017, Time Magazine put White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon on the cover and asked the question: 'Is Steve Bannon the 2nd most effective male in the world?'

At the time, Bannon was identified 'The Great Manipulator.'

In April 2017, The New York Times reported that Trump was irritated by that cover, telling individuals 'that doesn't just take place,' a term the president used when talking about assistants overshadowing him.

Bannon was out in August of that year.

Time Magazine's most current cover shows Elon Musk being in President Donald Trump's location behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office

President Donald Trump is caught seated behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office - in a similar position where Elon Musk is depicted on the new Time cover

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A reporter questioning Trump in the Oval Office Friday even explained that Musk was sitting behind 'your Resolute Desk.'

Musk, the wealthiest person in the world, has actually received just as much attention as Trump because the Republican was sworn back in on January 20.

DOGE's early actions - to take a trashing ball to USAID, are narrated in Time's piece about the billionaire's arrival in Washington.

Civil servant at the Department of Homeland Security told the magazine how they're assuming the 'protective crouch' as they wait for DOGE to get here.

In the aftermath of Time's cover release, Musk was making his own moves.

'I like @realdonaldtrump as much as a straight man can enjoy another guy,' he proclaimed on X, the platform he obtained, on Friday morning.

During the Friday afternoon interview with Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Fox News' Peter Doocy kicked off the questioning by asking Trump what the first lady thought of Musk's declaration.

'Oh I believe she'll be OK with it, somehow,' Trump said.

In another Friday early morning post, Musk cheered that Trump was the 'Greatest president ever!'

Musk highlighted a post where Trump said he was going to end the 'outrageous Biden push for Paper Straws, which do not work.'

'BACK TO PLASTIC!' Trump wrote.

Musk ended up being an ardent MAGA supporter in July, when Trump made it through an assassination effort at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

A February 2017 Time cover apparently annoyed Trump when it showcased then Chief White House Strategist Steve Bannon, labeling him 'The Great Manipulator'

DAMAGE CONTROL? On Friday morning Elon Musk said that he liked President Donald Trump 'as much as a straight man can like another male'

Minutes before he labeled Trump the 'Greatest President ever!' as the Republican is poised to sign an executive order disallowing paper straws

The billionaire SpaceX, Tesla and X boss backed Trump and then raked millions into the Republican's reelection effort over Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris.

In the run-up to the inauguration Musk rarely left Trump's side - even renting a $2,000-a-night cottage at Mar-a-Lago.

During this time period, Vivek Ramaswamy - who has actually currently exited as the co-leader of DOGE - and in turn Musk, started an online war with Bannon and wiki.snooze-hotelsoftware.de other MAGA traditionalists over using H1-B visas.

Trump appeared to take the tech entrepreneurs' side.

Musk stimulated some more difficulty when he trashed the AI project Stargate, which Trump announced from the White House on January 21, simply one day after inauguration.

The DOGE leader isn't a fan of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, among the 3 tech leaders involved in the $500 billion project.

A Republican politician near to the White House told Politico that some Trump staff were 'furious' at Musk for torching Stargate online.

'It's clear he has abused the distance to the president,' the Trump ally said. 'The issue is the president doesn't have any leverage over him and Elon offers zero f *** s.'

Trump was then inquired about it.

'He hates among the individuals in the offer,' the president shrugged.

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