Rebecca Patterson

2 months ago | foreignaffairs.com | Elliott Abrams |Joshua Kurlantzick |Rebecca Patterson |Zachary Karabell

On February 11, U.S. President Donald Trump held one of the more unusual White House press conferences in recent memory. There was nothing particularly out of the ordinary about Trump, who was sitting, as expected, behind the storied Resolute desk in the Oval Office. Standing to his right, though, was Elon Musk, dressed in the typical Silicon Valley attire of a dark blazer over a T-shirt—as well as a black “Make America Great Again” hat—while his 4-year-old son, X, pranced around.