Well, the sudden implosion of the bromance between President Trump and Elon Musk has certainly made for a peculiar celebration of Gay Pride Month, hasn’t it? It wasn’t that long ago that Musk said, “I love Trump as much as a straight man can love another man.” There’s no accounting for taste, but how fickle can a guy be? (Given Musk has had 14 children with four different women, apparently pretty fickle!) We were all nauseated by Trump’s previous bromances with Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin, but at least we didn’t have to watch the divorce play out on social media in real time.
Talk about men behaving badly! All those nasty threats and attacks—Trump threatening to take away Elon’s government contracts, Elon threating to Trump with impeachment, etc.—remind us what an embarrassment this administration is, that its purpose isn’t to govern but to make more money for Trump and his favorite oligarchs, not just Musk, but the whole greedy lot—you know, members at Mar-a-Lago and the Bedminster golf club, not to mention his crypto crowd. Indeed, Trump has made more than 1$ billion on crypto in the past year despite his failure to tackle the problems the American people elected him to solve.
Yes, in a way, their embarrassing breakup is just one more shiny object that distracts us from Trump’s substantive failures at president. Never mind failing to deal with the cost of living or ending the war in Ukraine on day one, what about 90 trade deals in 90 days based on his ignorant obsession with tariffs? Like most of the deals Trump has made in his lifetime, they’ll probably end in disaster or never come to fruition, the latter of which would clearly be preferable for all involved in this case.
The Only Person Unhappy to See Trump and Elon Breakup is Kanye West.
As Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) told Russell Vought, Trump’s budget director and one of the principal authors of “Project 2025,” during his recent appearance before the House Appropriations Committee: “Be honest, this was never about government efficiency. In fact, an efficient government, a government that capably serves the American people and proves good government is achievable is what you fear the most. You want a government so broken, so dysfunctional, so starved of resources, so full of incompetent political lackeys and bereft of experts and professionals that its departments and agencies cannot feasibly achieve the goals and the missions to which they are lawfully directed. Your goal is privatization, for the biggest companies to have unchecked power, for an economy that does not work for the middle class, for working and vulnerable families. You want the American people to have no one to turn to, but to the billionaires and the corporations this administration has put in charge.”
Musk claims he’s worried about the budget deficit and the “pork” in Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” but it’s obvious that all he cares about are his government contracts and personal wealth. This humble spirit still hasn’t gotten over the spectacle of the world’s richest person joyfully tossing about a chainsaw after cutting off food and medicine for some of the world’s poorest people. Elon might not be the richest person in the world much longer if his overpriced Tesla meme stock keeps tanking, but he can rest assured he’ll always be the only person in the world as narcissistic as Donald Trump. He’s proven that he would submit people to any degree of suffering to further his own ambitions, the most passionate being his desire to someday colonize Mars. Why not just send him to Mars at the taxpayers’ expense and be done with it?