Where does Elon Musk’s business interests and Donald Trump’s political interests end? Trick question – they are one and the same.
How else do you explain the brilliant face of the president of the United States who have Teslas on the White House South Lawn Hawking? Trump has always been a salesman and has lent his name to real estate, casinos, restaurants, steaks, vitamins, a scent for men, watches, water, a bicycle race, office chairs, sneakers, vodka, coins, another scent, nfts. You can buy a Trump Pickleball Paddle at the Trump store online right now, or a Trump Sea Mist & Sage Candle.
But Trump is best known for himself. (And pizza hut, if the price is right.) Spending so much political capital on Musk? The world’s richest man? About some protests at Tesla traders and a share price? Come on.
Trump is not altruistic. However, Musk spent nearly $ 300 million on the US election cycle of 2024, with the vast majority of it directly supporting Trump’s presidential campaign. His transformation of Twitter into X created an online Magatopia that barely competes through Trump’s own truth social platform. And she works with the so -called Department of Government efficiency, Trump was able to outsource the boring mechanics of real management.
Trump who reads a literal list of Tesla retail prices is the purest distillation of a dynamic that will not end well. It’s going to be pretty bad for them and for us: The stock market is tanking, Musk is closer to Rock Bottom in opinion polls. GOP representatives cancel the town hall meetings rather than facing the wrath of voters about Doge. Trump’s own cabinet officials are apparently just as fed up with Musk’s influence level.
Meanwhile, the influence is still growing. When SpaceX engineers invaded the Federal Aviation Administration, they were reportedly quick to represent their own Starlink technology as the solution to the technical problems of the agency. Thursday, a month after Musk unexplained to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington, DC – with three of Musk’s children on tow, Starlink Inked created this week with two large wireless carriers there and created a slide to work in the country.
Even the congress, which is believed to be a Keuqual branch of the government, is seen after Musk’s Tempers and tweets. During a talk at the Georgetown Psaros Center, Tuesday, the speaker of the house, Mike Johnson, Trump and Musk named as the two people he prioritizes.
“Elon literally has the largest platform in the world,” Johnson said. “If he goes on and says something that is misunderstood or misinterpreted about something we do, he can blow up the whole thing.”
What started as a self -serving bromance became more volatile, and it goes deeper than does. Trump told a reporter during a reporter on Tuesday that he would label anyone who committed violence against Tesla dealers a ‘household terrorist’. On Wednesday, members of the House Doge subcommittee sent a letter to Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel and US Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the ‘Gulf of Organized Attacks’ over the past few weeks against Musk and Tesla.