Elon Musk Said 'Idiots' Are Still Building Manned Fighter Jets: Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk likely walks into a room and he "knows" (at least in his mind) that he's the smartest person – and yet, he has a long history of saying (and doing) really stupid things. And yet, Musk has become a darling of the MAGA movement for his support for President-elect Donald Trump and arguably played a critical role in Trump's historic comeback.

Musk and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy have been charged with helping transform the U.S. government by reducing waste and cutting costs. To do this, they're heading the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE – which just happens to be the name of his cryptocurrency. Helping create a more efficient government by creating a new agency seems to be an odd way to go about it, but that's not what should be worrisome today.

It is Musk's criticism of one of the military's most important platforms.

Musk – Visionary or Blind to Reality on F-35 and U.S. Military?

While Elon Musk, now the world's "richest man," has been described as a tech visionary, he has shown a level of hubris not uncommon with a James Bond-level supervillain bent on world domination. Musk – who actually owns the prop car from the Bond film The Spy Who Loves Me – bought Twitter more than two years ago for $44 billion and now has a broadcast platform to share his mad scientist dreams with the........

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