Watching the year-end budget fights in Congress as we await the second term of President-elect Donald Trump, I found myself wondering: Will this era be remembered as the time when Trump was president and Elon Musk ran the country?
Trump earned such nicknames as "Captain Chaos" and worse for his unpredictable, constantly changing and easily distracted approach to governing. But close observers of Trump's political ups and downs understand a key to understanding the chaos: his mountainous self-regard.
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