Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, a Washington Post analysis has found, helping seed the growth that has made him the world’s richest person.

Elon Musk has repeatedly misled the public about federal spending while playing a leading role in President Donald Trump’s effort to cut that spending.

Indiscriminately firing nuclear safety workers is the kind of recklessness that would get a CEO fired — but not Elon Musk.

From one moment to the next, he exudes mean masculinity, graceless power, false exceptionalism, desperation and a gobsmacking dedication to procreation.

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