Observators have long guessed that Donald Trump and Elon Musk will eventually fall out, but few people predict the speed and ferocity of social media disagreements.
A year ago, after attempting assassination in Pennsylvania, MUSK promised his presidential support for the president, and the political and business interests of the two became more and more intertwined.
In many major areas, including political funds, government contracts and personal relationships, the two have depended on each other. In other words, it will be messy to end the alliance.
This has the potential to complicate the fall in cracks and the rows continue to connect anywhere here and harm each other in various ways.
Campaign
Last year, MUSK’s trump and other Republican donations are a total of $ 290 million (£ 240 million), according to the campaign financial tracking site Open Secrets.
Musk claimed that on Thursday that the president had won the election and complained about “perception.”
There is an obvious anti -example. Earlier this year, MUSK shoveled $ 20 million in Wisconsic, but his chosen Republican candidate lost 10 percentage points in Trump in November.
Nevertheless, Musk’s donation is a huge amount of money that Republicans can miss as they try to maintain the advantage of parliament in the midterm elections in November 2026.
In any case, it may be the problem they faced. Musk said he would “contribute” many to the campaign before.
But can the rupture with the White House not only withdrawal of Musk, but also abandon the money after opposition to Trump?
He implied the following when he posted a poll on X on Thursday.
Government contract and investigation
MUSK’s companies, including SPACEX, subsidiaries STARLINK and Tesla, do a huge amount of business with the US government.
According to the BBC Verify’s analysis, SPACEX has received $ 20.9 billion in US government contracts since 2008.
Trump thinks this is the world’s most richest person.
He posted on the Truth Social on Thursday: “Budget, the easiest way to save billions of dollars is to terminate ELON’s government subsidies and contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do so!”
Musk threatened to retaliate by dismantling the dragon of SPACEX supplied to astronauts and international space stations. But he later retired from the threat.
In fact, cancellation or withdrawal of government contracts will be a complicated and long legal process, and now and so far, the US government will continue to do a significant amount of business with musk companies.
A company other than SPACEX can not create Dragon and Falcon 9 Rockets, and NASA uses SpaceX crafts to perform many space stations and moon missions.
Despite these commercial partnerships, the MUSK and his company are faced with investigation by more than 30 government agencies according to the February report of the New York Times, and regulatory problems such as Tesla’s proposed unmanned taxi approval.
People in the government and Silicon Valley
When Musk was in charge of establishing the Doge, one of Trump’s major changes in the US federal government, he was extensive to choose his employees.
According to the leaked Doge staff list, many have previously worked at MUSK’s company. And Musk left Doji a week ago, but many employees remain in government jobs.
Some Doge employees have a deep relationship with Trump Camp. Katie Miller, who worked at Trump’s first administration and married the White House deputy director Stephen Miller, was a spokesman for Doge.
But CNN reported that Mrs. Miller also left the government last week and is currently working on “full time” for MUSK.
The Trump administration has other people who can be tested for discord. Trump, named his top advisor to artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency, is close to the MUSK who worked with Tycoon in Paypal decades ago.
In X, with the Maga-World influenced people, many Silicon Valley executives were analyzing each front and rear message posted by the president and the world’s most rich people.
The polling company YOUGOV conducted an SNAP survey on people on Thursday. The result was 70%of Republican respondents, Trump, compared to less than one out of 10 who chose MUSK.
