I don't think he's bent anyone to his will lol. On the contrary, he's made an absolute buffoon of himself. He singlehandedly drove Twitter into the ground and launched Tesla's Cybertruck (possibly the worst vehicle in decades- and that's including the $2500 rusted hulks my drunk DIY-enthusiast Aussie dad used to buy wholesale at Mannheim!) The Boring Company is just that; driving a car 30 mph through a sludge-filled tunnel hopefully isn't the future of transportation. As for SpaceX and Starlink, they're both suckling off the federal teat. The sad thing about this situation is that our species is wasting precious resources trying to fulfill the adolescent sci-fi daydream of a philandering bigot.