[ethbr1]

I wouldn't say victim, but I would say ideologically-aligned patsy.

Watching Elon seem flummoxed at politics as usual was entertaining.

Like, yeah, of course this administration is going to try to dump the blame at his feet and cut him out as soon as it's in their benefit to do so.

And the only reason they're still vaguely nice to him is because he owns a strategically important rocket+telecom company and Twitter.