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Even the brightest of flames are bound to sputter out eventually, and lo, it would appear that the bright, brief bromance between Elon Musk<\/strong> and Donald Trump<\/strong> will soon be but a wisp of smoke, quickly dissipated to nothing in the White House\u2019s climate-controlled corridors.<\/p>\n In a group interview with a handful of reporters at the White House on Wednesday evening, Musk spent some time reminiscing on the soon-to-be good ole\u2019 DOGE days, whining about his office, garnished with a healthy misunderstanding of Buddhism, just for variety.<\/p>\n Musk explained that the administration is \u201cgetting more of a rhythm,\u201d 100 days post-inauguration<\/a>. Sure, if by \u201crhythm\u201d he means \u201cplummeting poll numbers<\/a> and stock market,\u201d then, yes, there has indeed been more of that. Musk said that he\u2019d step back from DOGEing and playing video games Diablo and Path of Exile in his office on a monitor that he described as the biggest in the White House. By contrast, he sniffed that his office is \u201ccomically tiny\u201d with \u201ca view of nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhich is fine, makes it harder to shoot me,\u201d Musk added. \u201cNot a good line of sight.\u201d<\/p>\n It would appear that his days of sleeping in that office<\/a> are over, however, due to an upgrade in guest lodgings: Trump frequently invites him to stay over at the White House, where he sleeps in the Lincoln Bedroom and enjoys cute little ice cream rendezvous with Trump.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll be on Air Force One, and Marine One, and he\u2019ll be like, \u2018Do you want to stay over?\u2019\u201d Musk said of \u201cgood friend\u201d Trump. \u201cAnd I\u2019m like, \u2018sure.\u2019 He\u2019ll actually call, like late at night, and say, like, \u2018Oh, by the way, make sure you get some ice cream from the kitchen.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t tell RFK,\u201d he added, invoking health and human services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Musk, for the record, tends to enjoy caramel-flavored Haagen Dazs. Trump has historically voiced a preference for cherry-vanilla ice cream<\/a>, with very specific instructions for how it should be served: Two scoops for Donald<\/a>, one for everyone else. (It’s worth noting, too, that Trump Tower in New York has its own ice cream shop<\/a>. A \u201cbig league\u201d scoop costs $8, and it is the proud bearer of a 2.6-star Yelp rating<\/a>.)<\/p>\n As he shifts his focus from DOGE to \u201creturn to primarily running my companies, which do need me,\u201d (read: Tesla\u2019s profits declined an eye-popping 71% in Q1<\/a>, and the vehicles have become a scarlet letter among anti-Trumpers<\/a>), Musk graded his time playing government dress-up as \u201c60% fun, 70% fun,\u201d though it \u201cdepends on the week.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBeing attacked relentlessly is not super fun,\u201d he said. \u201cSeeing cars burning is not fun.\u201d<\/p>\n Weird news for Elon: Those things are not exclusive to\u2026.whatever it was he did at DOGE. Remember, the mysterious Amy Gleason<\/strong> was publicly named<\/a> as the group\u2019s acting administrator in February, though Musk was out front wearing goofy hats and trying to fire people who didn\u2019t work for him. He\u2019s keeping his office, tiny though it may be, he said, and apparently his sparse business cards as well. Even his stationery doesn\u2019t know what to call him, by the way.<\/p>\n \u201cThey don\u2019t put anything on my card,\u201d Musk said. \u201cLiterally, there\u2019s nothing on my card. It just says my name.\u201d Useful!<\/p>\n Just as he has perpetually declined to say who\u2019s actually running the show at DOGE (and, honestly, what the hell they\u2019re all doing there), Musk kept mum on the future.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a way of life, like Buddhism,\u201d he said of DOGE, which, as a weird vague government committee has pretty much nothing in common with the centuries-old belief system. \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t ask who would lead Buddhism. Is Buddha needed for Buddhism?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n