For anyone who insisted the men need each other too much to split. Well, frankly, you may soon be proved right too – I’m writing just a few hours after the very public spat, between two of the world’s most volatile personalities ever. The idea that whatever happened on Thursday will still stand by Monday may be as untethered as the row itself.
Back in 2020, a political lifetime ago, one Elon Musk threw his support behind the Democratic candidate for President, Joe Biden. It’s unclear if he actually voted for him – his biographer Walter Isaacson suggests he never voted at all (his home state is the bluest of blue democratic states: California – rendering a vote – in Musk’s view – unnecessary). But there is some suggestion that it was pique rather than laziness that got between Musk and his allegiance.
By 2023, he’d moved away from Biden, castigating the president for his perceived regulatory hostility and became increasingly vocal against him. He aligned himself with everything Trump and Republicans. The Green Dem recast himself on the libertarian right.
Musk’s major cuts to the US Aid budget will leave millions of people around the world struggling. But even if you abide by an America First doctrine, very little of what he’s done makes sense – firing federal employees who keep the wheels on, cutting jobs for an estimated 260,000 people, some of which have indeed now been reversed through the courts. He cut grants, public health labs, and research – the monetary impact of what he did at DOGE was way lower than he’d promised. But the social cost was huge, and for a while, his political capital was high.
Critically for Musk, it would add somewhere between $3-4 trillion dollars to the deficit. Making any savings DOGE made look like a drop in the ocean. Musk calls this bill “a disgusting abomination”. Criticism that Trump took personally.
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Elon Musk went nuclear. He claimed Trump would have lost the election without him, called for him to be impeached, and he posted videos of a younger Trump with the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, saying Trump’s failure to publish the Epstein files owes to the fact that he’s in them. For his part, Trump has threatened to cancel all of Musk’s government contracts and subsidies. Bannon, Trump’s Maga henchman, chimed in, saying Musk should be deported as an illegal alien.
But don’t be fooled into taking sides. Because neither of these men has the voter’s best interests at heart. In this world, where Trump wants to decimate social programs and Musk wants to eliminate them entirely, all we are discussing is scale. It’s a battle of the rich, trampling on the rights of everyone else. If you’re trying to work out who the good guy is, or who you really want to triumph, you might well be wasting your time.
Emily Maitlis is a journalist, broadcaster and host of the podcast The News Agents
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