Joined at the hip, I suspect he means. Until Trump tires of not being the richest man in the world and boots Musk from the team.

Musk's family business office manager is doing the interviews for hiring high-level people at the State Department. That person has no qualifications for doing the interviews. And Musk's mother (a former fashion model as her skill set) is sitting in on some of Musk's meetings with Trump and whoever else he isn't qualified to meet.

The Department of State would normally be doing diplomatic stuff in the future. You may remember that a lot of them were interviewed during the first Trump impeachment hearing when Trump was charged with trying to get Ukraine's then brand-new president Zelenskyy to make up stuff about Joe Biden. Go full circle, the FBI "informant" Smirnov (who lied about all that Burisma stuff) this week admitted that he lied in that case and will get time served. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/16/alexander-smirnov-pleads-guilty-joe-hunter-biden

In real news, Ukraine admits to having assassinated the Russian general who is responsible for the war crimes of using chemical weapons on combatants in Ukraine. Ukraine Says It Killed General Who Led Russia’s Nuclear Defense Force
A Ukrainian official said Kyiv was responsible for the assassination in Moscow of Gen. Igor Kirillov, the chief of Russia’s radioactive, chemical and biological defense forces.