Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced last month that he would cut his hours at the White House as Director of the Department of Government Efficiency.

Earlier this year Maye Musk, the mother of Kimbal and Elon Musk, was a headliner at a government conference in the Emirates. And Errol Musk, Elon Musk’s father, has said that he is in talks with an Emirati firm to build a Musk Tower in Dubai to house the Musk Institute, a planned technology hub.

Elon Musk said he took the backlash against his electric automaker Tesla personally, though he declined to say he regretted the political activity that sparked the "massive violence."

At the Qatar Economic Forum, Musk praised DOGE's work while also emphasizing that their cuts will also require buy-in from the legislative branch.

But Musk’s highly visible presence in Washington has ended, a POLITICO analysis found. In Trump’s rapidly evolving second presidency, Musk’s monopoly on political discourse, news coverage and social media seems to have broken — driven in part by how Trump and Republicans have all but stopped talking about him.

Elon Musk was once close to Donald Trump and the GOP but has now faded from their spotlight. His growing unpopularity may be hurting Republicans.

President Donald Trump was posting about Musk on Truth Social an average of four times per week in February and March