Why did Elon Musk Bribe His Way into the White House?

On occasion I am compelled by some outrage to ponder how and why it could be happening. This is one such occasion, and one of the few for which I can report having formed a convincing hypothesis.

The Outrage

Elon Musk bribed his way into the Trump White House, and is calling the shots on where and how tax money should be spent, dismantling programs to combat climate change, disease and pandemic prevention, and government support for millions who need it at home and abroad. Why is he doing this?

My Hypothesis

Musk has persuaded enough politicians and billionaires to help him establish a city on Mars, as insurance against one or more impending global catastrophes (climate change, plastic pollution, loss of biodiversity, pandemics, supervolcanoes, asteroid collisions, etc.) that can render the Earth uninhabitable. They will collectively throw 99.99% of the human race under the bus, so that 0.01% can emigrate to Mars on his fleet of space buses.

Supporting Evidence

1. Musk is determined to realize his "inspirational idea", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT65zFgnHtg

2. He built up SpaceX, Tesla, Solar City, Neuralink, and The Boring Company, which developed some of the technologies needed to build a liveable city on an otherwise hostile planet. SpaceX is building its Starlink constellation of tens of thousands of satellites for global internet, to help fund his Mars ambitions.

3. No Democrat would have gone along with his cockamamie plan, but Musk realized that Trump could be bought, so in 2022 he switched parties. He bought Twitter (now X), which was instrumental in spreading enough disinformation and propaganda to get Trump elected President in 2024, and he spent at least $277 million of his own money on Trump and the GOP, just to make sure. 

Prospects for Success of Musk's City on Mars

Zero, according to Robert Zubrin of the Mars Society,

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-mars-dream-is-back-how-to-go ,

and according to most scientists,

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125084292-a-city-on-mars .

So if Elon Musk succeeds in realizing his "inspirational idea", the human race will be left with no habitable planet.