As promised, Donald Trump has given Elon Musk a job in (or at least adjacent to) his second administration, in a brand-new extragovernmental organization named for a meme turned cryptocurrency: the Department of Government Efficiency, a.k.a. DOGE. The Trump campaign has already started selling T-shirts to commemorate the occasion, featuring Trump, Musk, and dogecoin’s Shiba Inu mascot, with the Martian landscape in the background—because in addition to his formal role, Musk is primed to become Trump’s unofficial space czar. (Vivek Ramaswamy, the entrepreneur and former presidential candidate whom Trump appointed…
