Trump ally Elon Musk publicly threw his weight behind Howard Lutnick for Treasury secretary. Trump went with Scott Bessent instead.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk risks alienating himself from the president-elect after the battle over who will become Donald Trump‘s treasury secretary spilled out into the public. Musk, along with Robert F.

Lutnick currently serves as chair of Trump’s White House transition team. His most notable moment in recent memory was his declaration on CNN that Robert F Kennedy Jr, the vaccine conspiracist and Covid lockdown critic, would not be Trump’s pick for head of Health and Human Services. Trump nominated Kennedy to that very post last week.