The demonstrations are part of a growing backlash in North America and Europe to Musk's disruptive role in Washington.

The protest was dubbed “Destruction of Our Government by Elon” – a play on words of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency

A wave of "Tesla Takedown" demonstrations protesting Elon Musk were held across the country. At least nine people were arrested in New York City.

Podcaster Joe Rogan and Elon Musk, founder and chief executive of SpaceX and Tesla, Inc., who is heading up President Donald Trump’s DOGE, both agreed that it’s time for the United States to stop spending money it doesn’t have.

The wide-ranging interview between the two prominent Trump supporters comes as Musk remakes the federal government.

Senator Mike Lee and Elon Musk have called for the United States to consider dumping the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, NATO. The House lawmaker had previously called the alliance which includes the United States and 31 other nations a “Cold War relic.

Billionaire Elon Musk, who is a close adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, has another child, his 14th. His latest child, a son, is with Shivon Zilis, an executive at Musk's Neuralink with whom he already has three other children.

Elon Musk did a complete 180 when he went from being politically averse to supporting Donald Trump to the extent that the tech billionaire went way overboard.