Tesla stock continues to plummet, and sales aren’t exactly setting the world on fire either.
Today, SpaceX’s latest Starship test flight ended with—wait for it—another explosion. According to AP News, “SpaceX later confirmed that the spacecraft experienced a ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly’ during the ascent engine firing.”
A "rapid unscheduled disassembly" is, of course, just a fancy way of saying it blew up.
The good news? No people were on board. The bad news? Well, if you’re Elon Musk, this was not the highlight of your day.
Meanwhile, over in Musk’s latest chapter of “Management Gone Wild,” PINO (President In Name Only) held a cabinet meeting today to clarify that it is, in fact, their job—not Musk’s—to approve employment terminations. PINO has decided that instead of Musk’s “chainsaw” approach to layoffs, they should opt for a more surgical “scalpel” method when deciding which federal workers to cut. This revelation is probably cold comfort to the 10,000 workers Musk already sent packing.
In another development, PINO decided to grant some exemptions and postpone parts of the tariffs in Canada and Mexico, possibly after glancing at the stock market and realizing he’d lit it on fire. Unfortunately, the damage may already be done, as the market continued its downward spiral even after the announcement. Car dealerships, however, are breathing a temporary sigh of relief with the 30-day tariff delay—especially since the average cost of an imported car was set to jump by $12,500. Apparently, there’s a magic number at which consumers stop buying cars. Who knew?
And now for something slightly less depressing: According to legal expert Joyce Vance, a federal judge in New York just delivered a significant blow to the Trump administration. In a case brought by a coalition of state attorneys general, U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued a preliminary injunction preventing Trump from overriding Congress’ funding decisions. Translation: All those so-called billions that Musk slashed as “fraud and waste” (which he later admitted were just things he personally deemed wasteful) might actually be reinstated.
All of this to say—Elon Musk probably had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. For federal workers and democracy? Not a bad one at all, despite the ongoing PINO-induced chaos of the last 45 days.
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