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My wife has put me in the Doge house

Elon Musk, who is in charge of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference on 20 February 2025.
Elon Musk, who is in charge of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference on 20 February 2025. Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AP

My wife has just said that unless I can give her a list of five accomplishments I’ve achieved last week I can forget lunch; a non-response and I’m out of here (Kash Patel tells FBI staff to ignore Elon Musk request to list their achievements, 23 February).
John Bailey
St Albans, Hertfordshire

• Perhaps MI6 could smuggle copies of the Guardian into the White House in the coming months to help influence the shape of US foreign policy (The CIA smuggled the Guardian into the eastern bloc during the cold war, 22 February).
Paresh Motla
Thame, Oxfordshire

• If Donald Trump believes that Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a dictator (Trump is the world’s greatest showman – and the weakest strongman it has ever seen, 21 February), I wonder why the latter is not his new best friend.
Cherry Weston
Wolverhampton

• Well, there were no elections in the UK during the second world war, so does that mean Winston Churchill was a dictator?
Julian Taylor
Cuffley, Hertfordshire

• Trump says Zelenskyy “should have never started it”. Surely the only way to treat delusion is with a heavy dose of reality: Zelenskyy to invite Trump on a tour of the Ukrainian frontline so he can see what the war is really like.
Jeremy Grant
Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire

• £174.99 for a vibrator? At that price they must have seen you coming (‘It could get an orgasm out of a cabbage’: the best vibrators, tested, 23 February).
David Marcer
Maisemore, Gloucestershire

• Have an opinion on anything you’ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.

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