• Trump dismissed Elon Musk’s peace offering, calling him “insane” and showing little interest in reconciliation.
• Their public feud, sparked by Musk’s criticism of Trump’s policies, escalated on social media.
• While Musk initially threatened to decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and later appeared open to reconciliation, Trump remained unconcerned and focused on his legislative agenda.
Anybody have a TLDR for people who have been blissfully unaware of the Space Karen vs Twitler slap fight?
Essentially: Elon gets mad about the recent budget bill in congress. He’s also angry he can’t stay in his special government employee role full-time. He is also getting pressure from his shareholders for EV credits getting cut during his time in government.
Elon starts tweeting against the bill, and this starts a back and forth, with Elon and Trump fighting like exes trying to be vague
The subtext is quickly dropped and tensions amplify until Elon threatens to decommissioned his dragon rocket. Trump retaliates by saying that Elon kept him out of the loop on DOGE and was useless. This part is a bit hazy for me. But this is during their main spat when Elon was posting on Twitter non-stop.
This eventually culminates in Elon admitting publicly that Trump is in the Epstein files. Trump threatened to retaliate by pulling all government contracts that involve Elon’s companies.
Elon, realizing he burned the last political bridge he has, is likely trying to salvage what he can. It is likely to go nowhere as Trump is as vindictive and petty as they come.
You ever know two 8 year olds who were close friends and then got in a fight?
You’re all caught up.
The first comment is the TL:DT of the article
Narcissists hate being ignored or called unimportant. Trump flippantly dismissing him as “nuts” and moving on is the ultimate insult.
I’m sure Musk has an army reining him in, but that’s legitimately hard for Musk to ignore.
he can direct xitter to attack trump and the magats, since alot of voters use xitter still.
Musk may be the richest man on earth, but there’s several things he craves that none of that money can ever buy. Like respect. Love. Being able to hold your pee. A working dick.
You know, the simple quiet enjoyments the majority of working class people don’t have nearly as much issues with.
Money can’t buy poverty, and if money can’t buy everything, let them keep their money.
The funny thing is that money can definitely buy respect, Carnegie and Rockefeller still have their names scattered about from their so called philanthropy and earned a grudging respect from it. With a fraction of his wealth Musk could’ve done a small but notable infrastructure and building deal in a small town or two and utterly revived them. Viola grudging respect.
Most of his money is in the US and DJ Trump can tank Musk easily.DJ Trump doesn’t have to worry about winning next term. We are eff’ed
Money, baby. He still (alas) has enough right now he could afford to primary every single Republican that is hard-core Maga, and potentially make Trump a lame duck for two years(depending on how the cult views all this). Which would mean that Trump would no longer be newsworthy, and would drive him up a fucking wall. Of course, then we would have to deal with a new political power and cult of musk
ToMAYto, toMAHto.
What cant’ a couple of millions won’t fix? Musk just needs to “donate” a few more millions and it will be all water under the bridge.
I don’t think Trump needs Musk anymore at this point. With all his crypto grifts, market manipulation and other schemes he made quite a penny for himself.
I’m also bet Trump would like for Musk to be knocked down a few pegs, so he could point at him and show the other oligarchs what happens when they don’t play along.
Musk may be more valuable as a scapegoat to trump with all the pending fallout of DOGE costs and the coming recession.
It was meant to be this way.
They are litterally following a WWF script
Fucking Pandas.
Turns out hiring Linda MacMahon as the Secretary of Education was just show she could teach them how to write wrasslin’ scripts.
There’s a neat little concept called the keys to power. A totalitarian dictator doesn’t hold all the power power - they must share it with generals, officials, oligarchs, aristocracy - many people who extend their control. A president has even less, they need to spread it wider
If you lose the keys to power, your own power dwindles. Trump had the oligarchs, and the apparent head oligarch (Musk) has been ousted. What does that say to the other oligarchs? Most of them were threatened into compliance… If Musk breaks with Trump without consequences, his authority dwindles. If Musk gets deported or something, Trump’s value as an ally is depleted
A CGP Grey scholar, I see.
oh yea, and musk has control of the starlinks, he can easily shut them all off to punish red states that depend on it. also he can help primary republicans magats, and INSTALL other gop down the line.
As much as I’m loathed to admit it, Trump probably has a legitimate case to seize assets in the name of national security if Musk starts trashing stuff.
Why loathe to admit it? I’m cheerfully reminding everyone that will listen that it’s always been an option. The government can revoke a corporate charter whenever they want, for whatever reason they want… If Trump wants to set a precedent that emergency powers can do that, I’d love that for us
Win or lose, maga would no longer be politically viable, and it would make corporations fear the government more, as they should
I feel you. That’s exactly what Putin did. Get rid of one oligarch so the other ones knew what happens if you don’t toe the party line.
Lol… Trump isn’t Putin. He hasn’t consolidated power, he hasn’t sent assassins after political enemies, he didn’t even have the balls to have a stand off with the courts (once his ratfuck strategies got blocked)
He’s a sleazy real estate developer with a melting brain, he’s not playing 5D chess - he’s openly taking bribes and making world shaking reactions to getting his feelings hurt
There’s a plan, but Trump just signs what they give him. The shit he does on his own is just impulsive
You mean someone is going to mysterously fall out the window?
Nothing is off the table.
Reverse South African Prince scam…
You could swap the names Musk and Trump and it would still be true.
While Trump initially threatened to decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and later appeared open to reconciliation, Musk remained unconcerned and focused on his legislative agenda.
Yup.
Oh yes, please create a new party buddy.
Trump is so spiteful that this will be wonderful to watch.
It’s nice to see, it’s unfortunate they’re fighting for the wrong reasons.
That’s not all bad. At least mom and dad are fighting over who gets custody of MAGA. It would actually kind of suck if Elon went back to pretending to be a good guy and fronting for liberals pretending to address climate change.
As if there is ever a right reason… They are both unreasonable. Just lucky
I want Lonnie to challenge Donnie to a cage fight. Alas, he’d back out of that if Donnie accepted, just like with Zuckafuck. But Donnie shitting his diaper in a chokehold would be hilarious. And Lonnie pissing himself from all the ketamine would be assured.
Can we please try to make this happen?
Don would chicken out first, TACO
They are both out of shape. Probably fight by proxy
It takes one to know one.
It’s fun to watch two people competing in the marketplace of ideas
