Where do Elon Musk’s commercial interests end and Donald Trump’s political interests begin? Question in trick: they are one and the same.
What other way explains the discordant vision of the president of the United States Hawking Teslas in the grass of the south of the White House? Trump has always been a seller, lending his name to real estate, casinos, restaurants, fillets, vitamins, fragrance for men, watches, water, a bicycle race, office chairs, sports shoes, sneakers, vodka, coins, other fragrance, Nft. At this moment, I could buy a Trump pickleball palette at the Trump store online, or a Trump candle is Mist & Sage.
But Trump is more famous for a pitcher for himself. (AND Pizza hutIf the price is correct.) Is it spent so much political capital on musk? The richest man in the world? About a few protests in Tesla’s dealers and a price of tanking actions? Come on.
Trump is not altruistic. However, Musk spent almost $ 300 million in the electoral cycle of the United States of 2024, with the vast majority of that directly in support of the Trump presidential campaign. His Twitter transformation into X has created an online magatopia barely rivaled by Trump’s own social platform. And his work with the so -called government efficiency department has allowed Trump to subcontract the tedious mechanical of real governance.
Trump Reading a literal list of Tesla retail prices is the purest distillation of a dynamic that will not end well. He is already doing quite badly, for them and for us: the stock market is getting tanking, Musk approaches the bottom of the rock in opinion surveys. The representatives of the Republican party are canceling the City Council meetings instead of facing the wrath of the constituents about Doge. Trump’s C herselfAbinet officials Apparently they are so fed up with Musk’s level of influence.
Meanwhile, that influence continues to grow. When Spacex engineers invaded the Federal Aviation Administration, reportedly They quickly suggested their own Starlink technology as the solution to the agency’s technical problems. On Thursday, a month after Musk brought together inexplicably with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington, DC, with three of Musk’s children in tow“Started.” Offers This week with two main wireless operators there, creating a sliding path to operate in the country.
Even the Congress, supposedly a coeual branch of the Government, is indebted to the temperature and Tweets of Musk. In a talk On Tuesday at the Psaros Center of the University of Georgetown, the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, appointed Trump and Musk as the two people he prioritizes.
“Elon has the world’s largest platform, literally,” said Johnson. “If you continue and say something that is misunderstood or misunderstood about something we are doing, everything can fly.”
What began as a selfish joke has become more volatile, and is deeper than Doge. Trump told a journalist during his infomercial on Tuesday that he would label anyone who committed violence against Tesla’s dealers as a “domestic terrorist.” On Wednesday, the members of the Doge House Subcommittee sent A letter to the federal director of the Office of Investigation, Kash Patel, and the United States Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to investigate the “wave of organized attacks” in recent weeks against Musk and Tesla.