Dismissed the screenwriter. United States Season 7 Out of control. Even if Elon Musk somehow made a modification with Donald Trump (apparently a call), the destruction between the richest people in the world and their most powerful people will certainly persist. You can't call on Trump's impeachment, suggesting his relationship with the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who received all praise for his election victory and pretend that it never happened.

As we all know, Trump has thin skin. If you get musk in the form of musk, their coagulation relationship stems from what he thinks is a big but not a beautiful Republican budget, which is the "obnoxious abomination" in the Rocket Man's choice wording. But psychology, rather than finance philosophy, is a better lens for these men's behavior. As late night comedian Stephen Colbert put it: “I began to worry about two narcissistic geniuses that it could be difficult to make friends at all if they were not able to see the value of other humans.”

Musk clearly believes he has the ability to hurt Trump. But Trump has almost all the cards. If the unrestrained U.S. president wants to destroy Musk's company, he can do so. They all depend on the federal government’s regulatory licensing and approvals, contracts, and competitive advantage to one or the other. Musk's wealth comes from his shares in Tesla, which is still trading at 100 times the yield. By blocking approval of its fully autonomous version, Trump could hurt the company. Also watch Jeff Bezos to get yourself into Trump's good grace. Bezos' Blue Origin is the only reasonable competitor to SpaceX, another major source of Musk Paper Wealth.

Indeed, the real reason for their fall has nothing to do with the U.S. fiscal deficit, no matter what Musk said. To be sure, Trump's "big and beautiful bill" must have felt humiliated for Musk, who promised $200 million in fiscal savings with the so-called government efficiency department, only seeing Trump increase his deficit. "Are it all nonsense?" Trump reportedly asked Duge's aide. I think his problem is rhetorical. Musk's real complaint is that the budget will abolish the tax credit for electric vehicles, which will make his sick Tesla flagship store worse than before. Apparently, he still deepened his partnership with Openai CEO Sam Altman, whom Musk stood out a few years ago. Musk called his "scam Artman" a red line that was originally scheduled to appear with Trump at an event in Abu Dhabi last month. Musk derailed Trump-Altman's public appearance, but did not reveal the AI ​​data protocol in the Gulf. Like Stargate USA announced in January, the UAE, like Stargate in the US, has become an Openai Trump favorite in a rapidly expanding industry. Musk's Xai so far has not been successful. Earlier this week, the White House also suddenly withdrew its nomination from Musk's friend Jared Isaacman as the next person in charge of NASA.

In short, Musk greatly overestimated his leverage. I don't know if the ketamine usage he reported works - the famous "K-hole", which leads to anesthesia overuse can lead to paranoid and psychotic attacks. But Musk is prone to narcissism without any medication. Think of Jack Nicholson's face Shiny The empty hotel suddenly shrouded in the Rockies. Now Musk stares at Capitol Hill on his face as he impresses Trump's signature legislation. He thinks he can kill Trump's priority bill through several social media posts. The world's biggest wealthy man has lost control of reality. Musk accused Trump of his dissatisfaction for failing to reward him with nearly $300 million in election help. But over the years, Musk's company has won $38 billion in federal subsidies and contracts. He paid Washington by bringing the chainsaw to the government. Now this is real dissatisfaction.

This led me to ask my own question - this time it was Joe Miller, a great colleague in our Washington, D.C., who is covering the oligarchs in Washington. Joe, how do you think of Musk being so clear about business that he ended up making such a bad bet?

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Joe Miller answered

Ed, I tend to agree that psychology is to analyze Musk's better discipline and understand how he so seriously mistakenly thinks of the value of the cards he holds in DC.

I never really believed it was a coalition based solely on the common good. Musk certainly doesn't need more government contracts - NASA was essential long before Trump was elected. Even if Musk somehow sets up defense procurement agencies to further benefit his company, the upside will be a rounding error in his $420 billion fortune. He also doesn't need Trump to lift the administration out of his back - regulators have proven themselves relatively toothless about the various violations of Musk in the Biden-era era.

Despite all the fuss over Musk's cash injection into the Trump campaign, the president claimed Thursday that he would win Pennsylvania without the help of billionaires. Let's not forget that Kamala Harris raised more than his opponent and lost. Plus, Musk showed that his political instinct was much worse than Trump’s—even before Wisconsin collapsed, he supported the wrong horses to replace the Treasury Secretary and Senate Majority Leader, as well as other basic mistakes (in fact, the AFD didn’t win the German election).

No, except that their pride requires more massage and dissatisfaction verification, the two themselves do not need two people who speak louder than each other unless their pride requires more.

Most Trump alliances in Silicon Valley can be understood in similar terms. Yes, Broligarchs wanted tax cuts and deregulation, but it was obvious in the meetings I attended with many Peter Thiel and Musk Protégés on Capitol Hill, who also longed to take their awareness of where America’s real power is.

A friend of Musk said this explained Thursday's bankruptcy. If legislation also doesn’t remind him of his humiliation in Doge every day, then Musk may outperform his fiscal grip in Trump’s tax bill, where he fails to find savings that can significantly reduce the deficit. It seems that being the richest person in the world doesn’t necessarily give you the thickest skin.