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Correlation is not causation. The meme implies causation, but all it's facts just tell us that there is some correlation in the timeline.
More likely than a change of president being the cause of the failures, is the departure of Tom Mueller. Tom Mueller was the driving force behind the success of SpaceX and he left the company in 2020: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mueller. The effects of his departure probably took longer to ripple out through the company: others no longer being protected from Elon's hubris, more key people leaving, ... In the mean time old projects were still being successfully completed, but sooner or later the rot would start to show on the outside.
Tldr: Never trust memes.
Did you guys take these memes seriously?
The raptor engine was already done by then and the starship design was fairly mature. So Tom leaving shouldn't be too bad. They're in the troubleshooting phase so its not as critical.