That's also what rodeo clowns do. Arguably, that's the only reason rodeos have clowns -- to play matador while they scoop the cowboy up and haul him off.
... and put Musk in charge of executive budget cuts per department. Just because Congress allocated it doesn't mean POTUS is obligated to spend it. Just sayin'...
pic-tax (careful, this meme is known to cause involuntary convulsive epileptic seizure in blue-haired lefties...):
Not exactly a first. Wilson did this too. But at least the Democrat Party, not yet ordered to destroy itself, didn't simultaneously run him for reelection.