Why Can’t Elon Musk and Donald Trump Both Win?
A feud between President Donald Trump and his former advisor Elon Musk erupted on Thursday, when the two billionaires began swapping escalating insults and threats over their respective social media platforms.
Trump said that the U.S. government would be canceling its contracts with Musk’s companies. He asserted that Musk had only turned on his administration because of its support for rolling back tax credits for electric vehicle purchases.
Musk, meanwhile, dredged up the president’s past calls for deficit reduction and spending cuts (a stab at his support for the deficit-increasing tax bill working its way through Congress). He said the “Trump tariffs” would cause a recession later this year, claimed the president was implicated in the so-called “Epstein files,” and even endorsed a call for Trump’s impeachment.
To watch the feud erupt and escalate in real time is undeniably extremely entertaining political theater. The memes alone might redeem social media.
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