President Musk?

Trump has managed to violate the Constitution by running for government office as a proven insurrectionist, so it makes sense that he would do it again by allowing a foreign-born citizen to serve as President.

Elon Musk, who bought Trump for over $200 million and violated the Thirteenth Amendment by owning someone, has stepped in and is calling the shots with Congress.  As soon as Democrats an d Republicans agreed on a bipartisan stopgap bill to und the government, Musk, the richest man in the world and a major government contractor, denounced the bill as wasteful and demanded that the bill be scrapped.  Trump, acting as his chief of staff, agreed.  The bill camethisclose to going down completely and causing a government shutdown right in the middle of the holidays.  But Democrats stepped in and rescued the bill when it became apparent that letting the GOP twist in the wind wasn't worth the pain that would inflict the country as a result of a shutdown.

Musk is in a position to get whatever he wants in negotiations over the budget simply by telling Trump his demands and using his social-media platform to browbeat congressional Republicans.  He can also direct foreign policy by using his influence for his own personal gain not just with Trump but with other foreign leaders - why else would he have sat in on a telephone conversation between Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky?  

This is why the Founders put all of those restrictions in the Constitution - the emoluments clause, the prohibition on foreign-born citizens in the Presidency, the check and balance on the executive branch by giving power to the legislative branch - and it's also why the location of the national capital was based on the approximate center of population (as it existed in 1787) and was placed as far away from business interests as possible.  Technology and the westward centering of the population made Washington, D.C.'s location irrelevant, but Musk, through flattering Trump while flattening his own wallet, has managed to render the constitutional guardrails against his use of power ineffective as well.

Musk and Trump lost this round on the budget, but the outsize influence Musk exhibited means that more chaos is to come.