The Big Beautiful Breakup

Trump & Musk — WikiCC

I drank my morning coffee today grinning like a Cheshire cat, only interrupted by the occasional outburst of hysterical laughter. I felt like all my Christmases had come at once. Why? Well, as AOC said, “The girls are fighting.” Yes, “Grab Them By The P***y” Trump put down his “Mr Donald Putin” scrapbook, and Ket-head Musk sobbed up enough to get into the messy, pathetic fistfight we all knew was coming. If you put two kleptomaniac wannabe dictators with egos more volatile than a Starship explosion in the same room, it’s only a matter of time before one tries to cannibalise the other. And, after the astonishing amount of damage this pair has caused — not just to the US, the global political environment or global economics, but to some of the most vulnerable people on the planet — there is nothing more satisfying than watching them take each other down. So, let me dish out the tea, because after everything we have been through, you deserve to share my Cheshire cat grin.

Okay, so how did this all start?

There have been signs that Musk and Trump’s relations were fraying behind the scenes for a while now. However, the start of this implosion appears to have been Trump’s snubbing of Musk’s pick to lead NASA, Jared Isaacman. This is horrific news for Musk.

Musk’s corruption of NASA is pretty apparent. After all, the NASA employee who gave SpaceX the nearly $3 billion contract to build a new-age Moon lander for Starship quit almost instantly and was given a cushy job at SpaceX. Well, with Starship turning into a huge, expensive trash fire, SpaceX will almost certainly need contract extensions, more cash, and help from NASA to stop the failure of Starship from sinking SpaceX. So, it’s no wonder that Musk essentially forced Trump to nominate Isaacman as the NASA head, as Isaacman has tight links with SpaceX, having twice flown to space with them on his own private missions and being a vocal advocate for the Starship programme. If anyone was going to give SpaceX the leeway Musk desperately needed, it was him.

So Trump’s snubbing of Isaacman could seriously damage Musk. Indeed, the Wall Street Journal reported that it “infuriated” Musk, as people in Musk’s inner circle told them he was pissed that the hundreds of millions of dollars he has poured into Trump didn’t get him the privilege of picking a NASA lead. If that doesn’t ring your ‘corruption warning’ bell, nothing will.

Trump drove the knife in even deeper when his Big Beautiful Bill came out. This bill scraps EV tax credits, something Musk previously supported. That was until Tesla’s sales crashed; now these credits are the only thing keeping Tesla profitable and act as a desperate lifeline for Tesla.

Then Musk took the beef into the public sphere with a tweet, decrying the bill, but not for scrapping the EV credits. Instead, he decried the fact that the bill would balloon the national debt, tweeting, “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,” and calling for the entire bill to be scrapped. However, I, and many others, don’t buy this. This bill is classic Reaganomics, a philosophy that Musk advocates for with his actions. After all, the cuts DOGE made are expected to cost the US government more than they save, pushing the deficit even higher. It’s painfully obvious this is just Musk obfuscating the truth here. He is pissed that his free lunch is being taken away and so is lashing out.

Because being perceived as the fiscally responsible party is critical for the GOP’s political power, despite the total opposite being true, this tweet sparked a huge rift in the Republican Party. Even Trump loyalists, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, turned on him, and said the bill should be thrown out.

The first blows had been exchanged, and the fight only escalated from here. What follows was a rapid exchange of jabs, with a few haymakers thrown in for good measure.

Trump publicly stated that he was disappointed in Musk and tried to cast aside his remarks, saying he was suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. But this call to follow the cult leader didn’t make the GOP toe the line.

Musk, trying to gain control of this cult of personality, came out and publicly stated that Trump wouldn’t have won the 2024 elections without him — which is arguably true, given the significant amount of money he invested in Trump and the extent to which he manipulated Twitter to support him. However, there is also growing evidence that the 2024 presidential elections were affected by substantial voter fraud in favour of Trump, so maybe it wasn’t all Musk (I will cover this topic in more detail soon).

Trump then had to remind Musk who was in the driver’s seat in the most beautiful way possible. Posting on his own Truth Social, Trump said, “The easiest way to save money in our budget, billions and billions of dollars, is to terminate Elon’s governmental subsidies and contracts.” Ooof, fuck! He is threatening to take $22 billion of government contracts away from SpaceX, which is basically its entire income. Admittedly, there is a question of whether TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) will occur here, given how dependent NASA is on Musk. However, don’t forget that SpaceX now has several viable rivals, including NASA’s own SLS and Blue Origin, who could take over at least some of SpaceX’s more critical contracts. And also, Trump doesn’t care about NASA at all; he has made that very clear. What he does care about is taking down threats to his power, no matter the cost. So, this threat has some weight behind it.

In reaction to this news, Tesla’s stock price slipped by 15% in a single day. That is one of the sharpest drops in Tesla’s stock history. It also partially suggests that Tesla’s value is so drastically inflated due to not only the amount of money Musk receives from the government but also his corrupt position of power within it.

Punches have landed, and both corners suffer bloodied faces and mild concussions. The fight is entering its most vicious phase, where one giant swing from either side could finish things.

So, Musk doesn’t hold back. He tweets that Trump is listed in the Epstein files, and that is why he refuses to release them. Truth be told, this isn’t as significant of a revelation as it seems. Trump and Epstein were close, and Pam Bondi has been releasing the files slowly, rather than all at once as was expected. We all could read between the lines. But the fact that someone who was close to Trump, who has almost certainly seen these files, has admitted it publicly is huge! Unfortunately, as many have pointed out, if true, this does mean that Musk happily worked with and supported someone he knew was a child predator… So while Musk’s blow certainly lands, especially amongst the “think of the children” Republicans, it ricochets back and hits him in the face, too.

Trump stumbles — was that a knockout? Not quite. Then, flying in over the ropes comes Trump’s puppet master, Steve Bannon, who delivers a painfully poetic blow, calling for Musk to be deported. Spectators from left to right cheer at this satisfyingly ironic suggestion.

Musk stumbles, but he isn’t done, and attempts to deliver another blow, calling for Trump to be impeached.

And, as of writing, that is where this feud sits. Both parties are beaten and bloody, with the foundations of their influence and power in tatters around them. Republican politcians are venting their frustrations at Musk — one even told Axios, “He had no idea what the f*ck he was doing, whatsoever.” Meanwhile, there is a growing number of Republicans denouncing Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. This is an odd moment in the US’ march to fascism, where a huge portion of the right finally agrees with the centre and left that this leadership is damaging. If this newfound unity crystallises, it will be a turning point in US politics that will bury Trump and Musk. And while that is a big “if”, the fact it is even a possibility is huge.

Either way, neither contender will step out of the ring as the victor; it’s simply a question of who will be the biggest loser. And when it comes to Trump and Musk, who are world-class professional losers, that is a close contest. So, grab your popcorn and get comfortable, because this fight is far from over.

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Sources: Futurism, Futurism, Futurism, TOI, BBC, Axios, Reuters, OOPA, NY Post