Conspiracy Theory: Anyone think the public Trump/Elon bromance divorce was premeditated?
Context: Trump is helping the donors who gave him 1.5-5 million, Elon donated $277 million.
Trump the businessman turned entertainer with thick skin (Elon too with thick skin) is never afraid of bad press and has a recurrent way of using it to his advantage. The bad PR from Musk on the ‘Bill’ to throw shade on Rep’s grandstanding complaints about the bill and indirectly diffuse their angst and eventually push it through.
Elon’s Trump-complaints about unraveling DOGE efforts to cut waste while engorging the national debt, EV mandates and subsidies terminated; all could be very helpful to restore Tesla’s Blue customer base. Adding in the discontinued Dragon project at Space X and Epstein file/logs’s deleted comment to sell the divorce. (which America already knew about Epstein connection). In the past, Elon confidently asserted he doesn’t need government handouts to be successful.