Today’s portion of the ongoing “legacy” media meltdown over the role of Elon Musk and DOGE in the current administration centered around Musk’s participation in the Cabinet meeting. Musk drew scrutiny in a way that escaped Jill and Hunter Biden as when they attended similar meetings.
The most tonally representative coverage comes via ABC World News Tonight, with its customary overwrought David Muir introduction to a Mary Bruce report:
ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
2/26/25
6:32 PM
DAVID MUIR: But we do begin tonight with the scene playing out with President Trump and his Cabinet, and Elon Musk called on first. It was the president’s first Cabinet meeting. The president inviting cameras in for more than an hour. His Cabinet secretaries sitting around the table, largely silent. The president first turning the floor over to Elon Musk, who defended his…
