What we know so far: Trump and Musk’s spectacular public blowup rocks Washington
Trump’s signature ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ precipitated an epic fallout between the US president and his former ally, billionaire Elon Musk
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Pretty sure that Musk has realised he alienated his prior fan base by courting this government so publicly and passionately.
Now he is trying to reclaim his former status by attacking the Trump admin thinking the left will love him for it. Trouble with that is, petulent is not a good look, nor is appearing not to have an allegiance to anything but money. His mask has slipped and that won't be forgotten, he did a nazi salute twice on the international stage ffs. No one is going to see Musk as a champion for the left or the environment again.
Not only has he screwed Tesla by making them unfashionable, he's now screwed SpaceX by pissing off a major source of income.
But we are still to believe that the guy is a financial genius and not just lucky, right?
I think his main motivation has always been to be liked and adored by geeks and nerds. He has spent a lot of PR effort to look like one of them, fuck to even look like a humble one lol. He was successful to some point, maybe around 5-10 years ago. He now completely trashed it and is now only worshipped by tech bros the most meaningless, tasteless crowd on earth.
One of the earliest times Musk appeared in the general public awareness was his Hyperloop crap and that was already designed to sabotage rail in favor of cars so he has always been like this, some people just didn't want to notice back then.
Honestly I don't think it's that complicated. I'm convinced he just threw a temper tantrum because his ego couldn't handle being let go of his position has head of DOGE, and since Trump's ego is just as big as his things just escalated from there
Occam's razor. Do not look for mischievous evil when you can explain it with plain stupidity (plus pettiness , plus add your preferred 6 year old's behavior )