While Trump blathers about tariffs and Gaza, Musk is executing a coup d’état | John Naughton

Don't be distracted by the president's calculated bluster - it's his unelected sidekick who's taking over the US government

Way back in 2019, Steve Bannon, then a Trump consigliere, outlined in a TV interview a strategy for managing information. The opposition party is the media," he said, And because they're dumb and they're lazy, they can only focus on one thing at a time... All we have to do is flood the zone. Every day we hit them with three things. They'll bite on one, and we'll get all of our stuff done. Bang, bang, bang."

Since his re-election, Donald Trump has been following this script to the letter, and the media, not to mention the entire world, are feeling punch-drunk. Which is, as Bannon pointed out, enabling other members of the Trump crew to get their stuff done. Really bad stuff too, to which the world has not been paying enough attention.