Well, that didn’t take long. The first week in June isn’t even over and President Donald J. Trump and erstwhile, one-time co-president of the United States, Elon Musk are having at it all over social media. The two are in a howling fit, like a pair angry black alley cats, back’s arched, and ready to slash each other’s eyes out.
The bromance is officially over!
Or whatever.
Mark the date, June 5th, 2025. Trump’s presidency will never be quite the same.
How did we get here? Trump’s first mistake was that he invited a slithery snake inside his house.
America’s White House, actually. Sure, that could never go wrong. The orange one’s invite was a gross miscalculation because Trump’s a slithery snake himself – and that pairing was never gonna work long term.
No question about it.
Two untrustworthy snakes in the same house equals disaster.
The fraying around the couple’s bromance had been going on for weeks. But the big break happened when Musk, tired of the bashing his beloved car company was taking because of his ruined reputation, quit the White House, and then just as promptly launched a clear, unmistakable take-down of Trump’s baby. The so-called Big Beautiful Bill, which is still being debated on Capitol Hill and has not yet gained approval in the US Senate.
Merits of the controversial budget bill aside, this put Musk in direct confrontation with the slimiest, filthiest most corrupt president the United States has ever experienced, and Trump wasn’t about to let an immigrant punk, like the smirky, Elon Musk do that to him.
Social media erupted in flames as the two alleged billionaires launched insults across the wires of the world wide web. The internet has been burning for almost two days. Look for the exact details elsewhere, but Musk became so enraged by Trump’s targeting, he even tossed out an accusation that Donald Trump is in the files of the convicted, and deceased by his own hand, child abuser Jeffrey Epstein.
And that’s the reason all the files have not been released to the public.
If that accusation is true. Ouch!
Two men, each eccentric, self-centered and narcissistic in the extreme, and used to getting what they want, when they want it, occupying the same space at the same time was never going to work long term anyway. What Musk actually knows about politics couldn’t fill a toddler’s toy teacup. His tiny bit of knowledge tripped him up big time at DOGE. As for Donald, he’s just as stupid as a brick wall, but very lucky his charisma and television persona have served him well.
That’s not saying much but look who’s sitting in the Oval Office and who is not.
Losing face is a concept from another part of the globe, but most folks understand what the term means. Both Musk and Trump have been dinged and for America’s clumsy-ass chief executive, this cannot become a regular thing.
This whole firestorm is ridiculous and beneath the office of the presidency. Trump knows it, and if he doesn’t, that would be an indictment that he is truly in over his head, and the game of tournament-level chess is something he simply cannot grasp.
While he stumbles around making decisions, and reversing himself the next day, other world leaders snicker about his ineptitude behind his back. Regimes can fall for a myriad of reasons. Politics can be unpredictable like that. Trump isn’t doing himself any favors by appearing incompetent and lost.
He is locked in for the next three years because that’s how America’s presidency is set-up. He can’t be booted out because he doesn’t know what he’s doing.
Blame that upon the people who voted for the bum in the first place.
Musk has proven he is more than Trump’s match, in the managing the negative publicity part of an intense and hateful rivalry, and he can give back equal to what is tossed his way.
The power of the office at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue means Trump will win this conflagration. The president has many levers to pull. Elon does not.
But his underestimation of the allegedly doped-up entrepreneur and tech giant was a grave mistake that everyone can see was the result of ignorance and bad judgment.
Inviting a snake into your own house, it just isn’t done.
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Oliver M. Greene is a freelance writer and online content creator, as well as a keen and discerning observer of the American political landscape.
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