Everyone (well, everyone who counts) is getting a kick out of the end of the Trump/Musk bromance, though who knows how it will all end up. It was likely that there’d be at least a temporary parting of the ways, since they each have outsize egos, but you have to wonder if there will eventually be a reconciliation, when they each decide that there’s something more they can get out of each other. In that case, the Ministry of Truth over at Fox will get busy, and we’ll discover that they never had a disagreement in the first place, though now they’re spinning an ever more outrageous lie: Trump can’t be bought!
I think I’ve mentioned before that I will never forget a line uttered by Robert Vaughan as he played the bad guy, an evil capitalist (aren’t they all?) in one of the Superman movies:
It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
It certainly encapsulates the attitude of both of them. After all, when Musk complained about the Republican bill, it wasn’t the tax breaks for billionaires he was complaining about. It didn’t take enough from everyone else.
Trump has it within his power to make Musk come crawling. He could have Musk prosecuted for one or more of the many crimes Musk committed while he was making sure that everyone else would fail, something that he’s sub silentio threatened to do.. That would require Trump to implicitly admit that his underling was operating a criminal operation in plain sight, but again, the above named Ministry of Truth would consign that down the memory hole, and the other media would ignore it because after all, Joe Biden’s health is a far greater concern.
One thing this incident should teach Democrats is that they should constantly make fun of Trump. It gets under his skin and he inevitably, as a result, does things that undermines his standing with the public. That will come in handy if we’re allowed to have elections in the future. My guess is that one thing leading to his parting of the ways with Musk was the constant referrals to Musk as the acting president while Trump was merely the figurehead.