Elon Musk

US president stood for election on a pro-growth platform but with ostensibly anti-growth policies

Trump’s opponents cower before him, and many of the country’s institutions look unfit for opposition

It pays to see the glass as half-full in bull markets, but risks are rising

‘These people are awful. Oh, I so want to be them’ has always been a key component of the American dream

If a search warrant had been executed against the Gript office then it would have known about it; but an order to an internet firm demanding private messages is invisible

Musk frequently shares or highlights posts complaining about immigration into Ireland by Michael O’Keeffe, one of a number of Irish people to have grabbed the world’s richest man’s attention

Libertarian secures electoral reform after his most difficult week since becoming Argentina’s president

Elon Musk-helmed company will launch the Model Y SUV to the Irish market in May

Switching from one channel to the other underlines the seismic drift between competing ideologies

Valuation would match price Musk paid for site despite loss of users and advertisers

‘Smartest AI on Earth’ available to X’s Premium+ subscribers immediately

Michael McGrath dodged request to sit down with Facebook executive Nick Clegg, records show

Trump’s glowering mugshot even hangs outside the Oval, like an Old West 'Wanted: dead or alive' poster

The question implicit in US foreign policy - ‘who’s going to stop us?' - is now live in the country’s domestic affairs

Crazy market behaviour cannot persist indefinitely

Planet Business: Plastic straw update, Elon Musk’s 19-year-old Doge lieutenant and the latest in Gulf of America appeasement

Company was the top-performing S&P 500 stock in 2024

The Tony and Olivier winner feels a huge affinity with Rex Ryan’s ‘fearless’ Dublin company Glass Mask, which is premiering his play Men’s Business

US vice-president JD Vance says European leaders ‘running in fear of your own voters’

The world’s richest man now holds huge sway over its most powerful leader — and the US government

As with Sean Spicer and Kayleigh McEnany before her, Leavitt (27) knows that keeping media-obsessed Donald Trump happy is a high wire act

The pendulum will probably find a position of equilibrium between the priggish extravagances of the 2010s and the nastiness of the current moment

The celebrity clan have so Truman Show-ed their existence that all significant events in their lives have occurred on camera

Musk, accompanied by son X, seeks to present the work of Doge as good common sense as Trump stays largely silent

Keir Starmer is walking a very tricky tightrope. Figures close to Trump, including Elon Musk, openly speak of reversing the 2024 UK election outcome by removing him from office

Offer comes months after billionaire sued AI start-up to block it from transitioning to a for-profit firm

President says Elon Musk and himself will unearth ‘hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud and abuse’ within US government

The disdain for Congress and the rule of law and the glee at erasing so many jobs and programmes is reprehensible

Plus: Still waiting for Shane Ross to dish the dirt on RTÉ; ex-Ireland player’s country house plans hit a brick wall and team Trump take aim at an Irish ‘DEI musical’

Investors leading analysts who are more bullish than a year ago despite poor figures

Judge temporarily blocks Musk’s Doge from accessing government systems used to process payments

Planet Business: Diageo’s tariff ‘complexity’, Virgin Money’s huffy chatbot and Meta’s sincerest form of flattery

Organisation’s annual report for 2023 describes USAid as ‘largest donor’ at €103m

Accounts for Irish aid agency Goal show it received €103 million in funding from USAID in 2023

The fear is Musk is treating the machinery of the US federal system as a plaything and something he owns – and that he doesn’t know what he is at

‘We have to take some of these things apart to find the corruption’ says US president

From gender to Gaza, climate policy to USAID, the start of Trump’s second term as seen a deluge of orders and pronouncements overturning what has gone before

‘As an American taxpayer I don’t want my dollars going towards this crap,’ Donald Trump’s press secretary told reporters

Deal will temporarily prevent billions of sensitive payment records being turned over to DOGE

Registrations in Germany fall 59% amid consumer backlash against Musk’s political activism