Summary
Elon Musk is facing resistance from Trump-appointed agency heads who are growing “exhausted” by his haphazard directives.
After backtracking on a 5-point achievement list ultimatum, Musk has issued a new demand for weekly reports. High-level officials are openly defying these orders, with some instructing staff to ignore them.
Agency leaders complain these late-night, weekend demands create confusion, divert resources, and appear designed to “rattle and demoralize workers.”
One staffer described the communications as having “psychological warfare vibes.”
They have psychological warfare vibes because it is psychological warfare.
Also because he is actually unstable while doing this. I’m positive at least half of these are crap he sends on a whim, probably while high as balls. Like a bunch of crap he’s sent - including the infamous thanksgiving day demand at SpaceX, where he freaked the fuck out all of a sudden about not being able to hot some arbitrary goal that he was panicking about irrationally. Told everyone that they had to suddenly work through the holiday or they’d go out of business, then sort of calmed down and forgot about it.
Edit: I actually replied to the wrong comment, but leaving it since it mostly fits here too :)