Elon Musk Set To Leave Trump Administration After Wisconsin Election Disaster

Controversial tech billionaire Elon Musk will leave the Trump Administration in the next month, President Donald Trump told his cabinet on Monday. The move comes after the Republican candidate in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race lost by 10% on Tuesday after Musk poured $25 million into the race and said “the future of Western Civilization” depended on its outcome.

Musk went all-in on the race. On Sunday, the tech titan attended a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to support conservative candidate Judge Brad Schimel. Musk showed up at the event on the eve before the election, which Judge Schimel did not attend.

Musk’s businesses have suffered huge losses since he started his role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, enacting sweeping cuts without the approval of Congress.

Trump was also invited to attend the rally but declined. Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) was among those anticipating a Trump visit.

”What’s happening on Tuesday is a vote for which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives— that is why it is so significant,” Musk said at the rally. “And whichever party controls the House to a significant degree controls the country, which then steers the course of Western civilization. I feel like this is one of those things that may not seem that it’s going to affect the entire destiny of humanity, but I think it will.”

Some in the crowd at the rally wore Musk paraphernalia in support of the tech mogul.

Musk was mocked relentlessly on social media for wearing a Packers cheesehead hat.

”We’ve got to pull a rabbit out of the hat—next level. We actually have to have a steady stream of rabbits out of the hat, like it’s an arc of rabbits flying through the air and then landing in a voting booth,” Musk said.

Democrat-backed Judge Susan Crawford ended up winning the race by over 230,000 votes. In November, Trump carried the state by less than 1%.