Once the conflict spaceship lands, Musk gets to reset and go back to playing the role he loves best: neutral visionary. A quirky futurist who backs nobody, insults everybody, and keeps his eyes glued on Mars. He can throw jabs at Trump, dunk on journalists, and still wear the “anti-elite” badge like a spacesuit patch. He’s out of the blast radius, but still circling the control room.
Meanwhile, the spat also advantages Trump: it diverts the news cycle for a few precious days from what’s actually happening — the quiet but permanent restructuring of federal IT systems, communications architecture, immigration surveillance, the DEI demolition crew, and his new emergency tariff protocols that will bring foreign markets to heel.
Here’s the thing: it doesn’t matter whether the feud is real or rehearsed. Whether this is just cosplay or an actual volcanic ego eruption, the outcome is the same: Either way, everyone wins at the end. Trump doesn’t need Elon anymore. He’s in his final term — he can burn every bridge he wants. Musk, meanwhile, already got everything he came for: access, contracts, power, and narrative redemption.
This isn’t a falling out so much as a scheduled exit.
As I see it, in this public spat, everybody wins. It’s win-win-win. Here’s the chessboard behind the T-rex slap-fight:
* Trump wins: He publicly distances himself from a lightning rod billionaire whisperer while retaining all his policy wins.
* Musk wins: He sheds his polarizing “Enemy Number 1” status right as Tesla stock begins its next dance with institutional investors, and he can get back to business, having achieved all his goals by electing Trump and erecting DOGE.
* Corporate Media wins: They’re bathing in the lava of the Trump-Musk implosion, with Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla trending for three straight days, complete with interactive insult timelines and a revived hope for a Trump collapse.
随后,Musk 的批评便转向公开化。他抨 One Big Beautiful Bill Act 将导致三万亿美元赤字,并呼吁国会“扼杀该法案”。虽然 Trump宣称,Musk 的不满是因为该法案将取消电动汽车补贴,但投资研究公司CFRA研究的分析师Garrett Nelson表示:“税收抵免的终止将扩大 Tesla 的竞争护城河,因为我们认为 Tesla 是唯一盈利的电动汽车制造商,这将使竞争对手的电动汽车模型更加不具经济性。”