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).