Musk Says He Went ‘Off Track’ in Politics, Spent Four Months at White House

Musk's admission is less a mea culpa than a signal about attention allocation at Tesla, where his political visibility has been a polarizing factor for the brand and its shareholder base. The explicit pivot back toward AI matters because it hints at where internal resources and narrative focus may concentrate next, at a time when AI ambition is a core part of the Tesla equity story. Whether this self-correction translates into a genuinely lower public political profile — and whether markets read it as a governance positive — is the open question worth watching.