On Tuesday, Donald Trump announced that he was going to create a new office when he assumed the presidency in January, the Department of Government Efficiency.

He said the department would be led by former presidential candidate and former pharma exec,

Vivek Ramoswamy, and Elon Musk, you know, this guy.

As you can see, I'm not just MAGA, I'm dark MAGA.

And this wasn't a big surprise.

Not long after Musk hitched his wagon to Trump,

Trump started talking about giving the dark maga man influence.

And when he won, he specifically praised Elon Musk.

What are these are characters, a special guy is a super genius.

We have to protect our geniuses. We don't have that many of them.

The new Department of Government Efficiency, or, and it pains me to say this, doge, you know, like the cryptocurrency, making fun of Bitcoin, is being billed as a tool for dismantling government bureaucracy,

getting rid of regulations, and basically cutting everything that Trump, Musk, and Ramoswamy

deemed to be an excess.

And if you have questions about whether Musk's role as the owner of the largest social media platform, X, will be in conflict with Doge, you aren't the only one.

Trump is calling Musk's role advisory, so it doesn't require Senate approval and, somehow, lets him keep X.

But not all X users are on board with an app that's become increasingly

politicized and has a CEO in Trump's inner circle. As Elon's advisory role hit the headlines,

anecdotes started popping up of people's follower counts going down, down, down, as users abandoned

the platform for competitors like Blue Sky or Threads.

So far, this is all anic data.

That's because X won't say how many people are leaving, but Blue Sky says it's added a million

users since Election Day, doubling its user base and

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