So-called authentic leadership was once seen as good and moral. But leaders are increasingly ‘signalling’ their messages in ways that can be highly polarising.

Elon Musk’s team has begun sweeping layoffs of federal workers. Trump spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday. Tulsi Gabbard was sworn in as Trump’s director of national intelligence. Pilots got 104 helicopter warnings near a D.

From left, Activists wearing masks of AfD top candidate for Chancellor Alice Weidel, Elon Musk, US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US Vice President JD Vance, protest

From left, Activists wearing masks of AfD top candidate for Chancellor Alice Weidel, Elon Musk, US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US Vice President JD Vance, protest

In Moscow, there’s plenty of speculation that Musk could quickly become to Trump what Boris Berezovsky was to Putin. Two alpha males, many argue, cannot coexist in the same den.

Some might naively call these leaders "authentic" for saying and often doing what they believe. But thats not the whole story.

President Donald Trump’s week included rewriting U.S. policy toward Russia and firing the country's senior military officer.

The State Department has suddenly deleted any mention of “Tesla” after facing massive backlash over its recent contract.

Musk speaks about his federal cost-cutting initiative, as Argentina's president hands him a "chainsaw of bureaucracy".