The cover of the venerable newsweekly, long an object of fixation for the president, put Elon Musk behind the Resolute Desk.

See the cover of Time magazine with Elon Musk sitting behind President Trump's Resolute Desk and Trump's reaction to it.

Elon Musk has said he will rehire an employee of his newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) who resigned after being linked to a racist social media account. "He will be brought back," Musk posted on X, the social media platform he owns. "To err is human, to forgive divine."

Elon Musk said on Friday he is re-hiring a staff member at the Department of Government Efficiency who resigned a day earlier after he was linked to social media posts that espoused racism. Musk, in a post on his social media network X,

Musk said he would reinstate a DOGE staffer who resigned after social media posts surfaced of him advocating racism.

An overhaul led by President Donald Trump ’s billionaire ally Elon Musk —who has called the agency a “ball of worms”—has already seen hundreds of internal contractors let go and scores of remaining staff placed on leave.

The number of Republicans who want tech mogul Elon Musk to have substantial influence in the Trump administration has fallen since November's election, according to a poll. A survey from The Economist/YouGov released Wednesday showed the number of Republicans who want Musk to have "a lot of influence" currently stands at 26 percent,

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is a potential liability for President Donald Trump's new administration as polling reveals voters are not on board with his takeover of federal systems — and Democrats are seizing on this to unite behind an anti-Musk message,

Elon Musk now has access to the $6-trillion U.S. federal payment system, and has other government departments in his crosshairs. Is the richest man in the world launching a soft takeover of the U.S. government?