Like many Americans lately, I am seized with curiosity about who is actually running the government of the United States. For that reason, I watched Sean Hannity's Fox News interview tonight with President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. But I am still not sure who's in charge. If there is a headline from the interview, it is that the president of the United States feels that he requires the services of a multi-billionaire to enforce his executive orders. Trump complained that he would write these 'beautiful' executive orders, that would then languish in administrative limbo. Musk, for his part, explained how the president is the embodiment of the nation and that resisting his orders is the same as thwarting the will of the people. Hannity, of course, enthusiastically supported all of this whining about how hard it is to govern a superpower. The goal of the interview, I assume, was to calm some of the waters around Trump's relationship with Musk, and especially to present Musk as just...
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