This is really just an extreme version of an almost tediously familiar pattern: Guy is extremely gifted in specific domain X, becomes famous for it, decides he must be similarly brilliant in every imaginable sphere, and is so famous & surrounded by sycophants at that point nobody disabuses him.

Are you ok with me telling you to post more elephant stuff? Because elephants are pretty cool

Actually the only shift is in the reporting. The first emails to govt workers was the elimination of DEIA. Our media ignored this.