and he has recounted how he was bullied at school and his struggles picking up on social cues because of Asperger's Syndrome. "From the very start, he knew pain, but also knew how to survive it," writes Walter Isaacson in his biography of Elon Musk.

Trump and Musk want to run a giant experiment on the federal bureaucracy. Two big unknowns already loom over it.

Musk has spent days bounding in and out of meetings, sitting in on phone calls, weighing resumes and traveling to Washington as Trump’s unofficial co-president.

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell mockingly explained how he believes President-elect Donald Trump “humiliated” Elon Musk in front of House Republicans during a conference on Wednesday. Trump has a “twisted psyche” which means that “at some point” he has to “humiliate everyone around him to demonstrate his dominance over them,

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains how Elon Musk was humiliated in failing his first power play in the Senate and humiliated by Donald Trump in public, “as Donald Trump's twisted psyche demands that he do,

Trump and Musk have suggested the panel will be able to make dramatic cuts, but generally speaking, large budgetary actions are the remit of Congress.