Trump-Musk: Affair, Breakup and Reconciliation?
Published in La Razón
(Spain) on 13 June 2025
by Rocío Colomer (link to original)
The tech guru may have realized that he’d better kneel down and kiss the ring.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called the presidents of Ukraine and South Africa, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Cyril Ramaphosa, before traveling to the United States on June 5. He wanted to know first-hand the details of their respective meetings (or clashes) with Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Merz wanted to leave nothing to chance. He could not rule out that he would not suffer a humiliation like Zelenskyy (Germany has been one of [Trump’s] favorite targets since 2016) or an ambush, as was the case with Ramaphosa, when [Trump] showed him a video about an alleged white genocide. He did not expect to witness the breakup between Trump and Elon Musk live on the Oval Office set.
The U.S. president exploded when asked about Musk’s criticism of his “big beautiful” spending bill. It was the match that ignited spectacular pyrotechnics between the world’s most powerful man and its richest. What could have been a legitimate (and even healthy) debate about taxation, spending and debt became a galactic battle between two fighting cocks in the same cage. Anybody with a little insight would know that the Donald-Elon duo was made up of two super-egos and that its days were numbered. Each fired with his own megaphone (the social media platforms Truth Social and X) and turned their verbal duel into a global event. The divorce between two mercurial characters could not be civilized. The insults flew about election financing, government contracts, subsidies, space research, drug use, impeachment and accusations of “dementia” and pedophilia. The only one who emerged unscathed was Vice President JD Vance, who could be the big winner of this political circus.
The split between the most successful election ticket (with Vance’s permission) in history (Trump’s magnetism and Silicon Valley’s prestige), had been brewing in the background for weeks and months. Musk suffered his first disappointment after the presidential inauguration when loyal strategist and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and [Trump’s] loyal strategist, denied him an office in the West Wing. But he persevered. The second disagreement, this time in public, was over the tariff war. The Tesla CEO called presidential trade adviser Peter Navarro “dumber than a sack of bricks,” to which Navarro responded by calling Musk a “car assembler,” not a manufacturer. But a battle to the death is in neither side’s interest. The spoils up for grabs are too lucrative, as shown by the catalog of insults they dedicated to each other.
This week, after threatening to create a third political party in the 2026 midterm elections and boycott lawmakers who support Trump’s spending bill, the tech guru has expressed his support for using the military to stifle protests in Los Angeles and has backed the deployment of the National Guard and the Marines against protesters. In what seems to be a plot twist, Musk may have realized it’s better to bend down and kiss the ring, as the rest of the large U.S. corporations and global leaders have done.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called the presidents of Ukraine and South Africa, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Cyril Ramaphosa, before traveling to the United States on June 5. He wanted to know first-hand the details of their respective meetings (or clashes) with Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Merz wanted to leave nothing to chance. He could not rule out that he would not suffer a humiliation like Zelenskyy (Germany has been one of [Trump’s] favorite targets since 2016) or an ambush, as was the case with Ramaphosa, when [Trump] showed him a video about an alleged white genocide. He did not expect to witness the breakup between Trump and Elon Musk live on the Oval Office set.
The U.S. president exploded when asked about Musk’s criticism of his “big beautiful” spending bill. It was the match that ignited spectacular pyrotechnics between the world’s most powerful man and its richest. What could have been a legitimate (and even healthy) debate about taxation, spending and debt became a galactic battle between two fighting cocks in the same cage. Anybody with a little insight would know that the Donald-Elon duo was made up of two super-egos and that its days were numbered. Each fired with his own megaphone (the social media platforms Truth Social and X) and turned their verbal duel into a global event. The divorce between two mercurial characters could not be civilized. The insults flew about election financing, government contracts, subsidies, space research, drug use, impeachment and accusations of “dementia” and pedophilia. The only one who emerged unscathed was Vice President JD Vance, who could be the big winner of this political circus.
The split between the most successful election ticket (with Vance’s permission) in history (Trump’s magnetism and Silicon Valley’s prestige), had been brewing in the background for weeks and months. Musk suffered his first disappointment after the presidential inauguration when loyal strategist and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and [Trump’s] loyal strategist, denied him an office in the West Wing. But he persevered. The second disagreement, this time in public, was over the tariff war. The Tesla CEO called presidential trade adviser Peter Navarro “dumber than a sack of bricks,” to which Navarro responded by calling Musk a “car assembler,” not a manufacturer. But a battle to the death is in neither side’s interest. The spoils up for grabs are too lucrative, as shown by the catalog of insults they dedicated to each other.
This week, after threatening to create a third political party in the 2026 midterm elections and boycott lawmakers who support Trump’s spending bill, the tech guru has expressed his support for using the military to stifle protests in Los Angeles and has backed the deployment of the National Guard and the Marines against protesters. In what seems to be a plot twist, Musk may have realized it’s better to bend down and kiss the ring, as the rest of the large U.S. corporations and global leaders have done.
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