MUSK-ETEERS: Legacy Media Melt Down Over Trump Admin Employing Talented Youths

The legacy media’s new freak-out—after they got finished with the “Elon Musk makes Nazi salutes” cycle—is that the new administration is bringing in too many young people.

Yes, really. That’s their strategy to take President Donald Trump and billionaire entrepreneur Musk down a peg.

Here’s an example of what lefties in the media are freaking out about on social media right now.

I like the low expectations. Musk has certainly brought in a lot of young people, mostly men, from the tech industry to audit the government through the Department of Government Efficiency.

Isn’t that a good thing?

According to the legacy media, it’s the worst. How dare they!

Left-wing media types are doing their best to cook up negative stories about the young DOGE whiz kids so that they will get fired or get mired in controversy so they can’t work effectively. Isn’t it interesting that they are trying to dig up old social media posts from DOGE employees who have just arrived on the job, yet have done virtually nothing to uncover the wasteful spending and outright corruption that’s taken place at USAID and the State Department for decades?

Fortunately, the new Trump administration isn’t accepting left-wing gatekeeping these days.

That’s refreshing.

But the general point that the Left is apparently trying to make here really needs to be pointed out for the absurdity that it is.

There is no problem at all with Musk employing young staffers with highly impressive abilities to help reform and streamline the out-of-control federal bureaucratic Leviathan.

This narrative about DOGE employees being too young is incredibly rich coming from the Left.

Democrats frequently push legislation that would drop the voting age down to 16 years old. Some left-wingers even want to drop the voting age to 12 years old and younger.

Not only that, but they’ve made children and teenagers the figureheads of various social justice causes. How can the Left complain about a team of 21-year-old nerds tracking spending data in the federal bureaucracy when they’ve promoted Swedish environmentalist activist Greta Thunberg as the voice of the green movement since she was a young teenager?

And what about David Hogg, the 24-year-old gun control activist who began his political career as a teenager and is now a vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee? They aren’t using young people for technical know-how; they’re putting the kids in charge.

Why should we look to those young people for wisdom, but reject the youthful energy and brilliance of a handful of DOGE employees who are bringing their technical expertise to the bloated, ideologically compromised dinosaur that is our federal bureaucracy?

The dynamic in the Trump administration seems to be a mix of older people making the big picture decisions, aided by young people who, with their youth and skills, are carrying it out.

That compares favorably with the previous administration, where the people who were allegedly in charge were asleep at the switch—in some cases, literally—or were fine going missing in action for days at a time, like former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin

As to who was actually making decisions, it often seemed to be the young staffers who occasionally threw tantrums without consequence when they didn’t get their way.

I didn’t hear too many complaints from the legacy media about that problem in the past four years.

Trump and Musk aren’t looking for wisdom from the young tech bros. They are looking for energy and the kind of skills that were extraordinarily useful in getting Twitter, now X, to work efficiently with a minimal staff.

You know who else besides Musk employed 20-year-old wunderkinds? George Washington.

Washington’s most gifted aide-de-camp was Alexander Hamilton, who joined Washington’s staff when he was just 21 years old. Another somewhat famous aide was Marquis de Lafayette, who joined Washington before the age 20.

That’s not all. Many of the greatest Founding Fathers were, by the recently updated standards of the online Left, just too darn young to be doing anything important as writer Jon Gabriel pointed out on X.

A great number of successful endeavors in history have been carried by very young men led by able older leaders. World War II was won by 20-year-olds. And it’s not just in war that this dynamic works. In business and government, using the energy and talent of youth and combining it with the experience of older, able leaders has typically been a winning combo.

That seems like common sense to me, but these days I guess it has to be spelled out.

The Left is obviously grasping at straws and trying to peddle any dopey thing they can to try to stop the Trump administration right now. They’ve apparently been reduced to throwing the most absurd, sloppy arguments at the wall and hoping they stick.

But my feeling is that the American people are going to be quite pleased with the changes coming to our federal government and don’t care about the age of the people making those changes. Certainly, a little youth and energy sure beats the four miserable years of toothless Caesarism under President Sleepy Joe Biden.

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