“Elon Musk has been pretty cavalier about his ability to turn on or turn off Starlink to influence policy decisions,” Garner, from the Benton Institute, told me, referring to a series of recent posts on X from Musk about cutting off Starlink access in Ukraine.

When Elon Musk puts on a nice suit, it has a way of looking like a demotion. Last week, President Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked a seemingly simple question about the White House dress code.