What’s DOGE? Musk’s new political appointment under Trump is a crypto joke
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that one of his top donors, Elon Musk, will co-lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. It’s a not-even-thinly-veiled nod to the popular Doge meme, depicting a cute Shiba Inu, which is also the inspiration behind the meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin.
The commission, which will advise Trump, isn’t an actual government department – those have to be affirmed by Congress. But Musk seems to have successfully turned a joke he made on X in August into an actual advisory role in the Trump administration.
Musk has been a known proponent of the Doge meme for years.
The meme itself is simple. It references a Shiba Inu, a breed of hunting dog from Japan. The…
