The rags are flying between the most powerful man in the world and the richest one. Donald Trump and Elon MusK, until a few days ago very narrow allies are now colliding in public in what risks becoming the most explosive duel of the second presidential mandate of Trump. And if their joint forces had already shaken the American system, now that the earthquake are sworn enemies could be even more devastating. It all started with a disagreement on the new spending law, the “Big Beautiful Bill”, which Musk attacked as disastrous for public debt. Trump, in an official meeting at the White House with the German Chancellor Merz, replied: “I am very disappointed by Elon. I helped him so much”. Musk, for his part, did not hesitate to respond on X: “Without me, Trump would have lost the elections. The Republicans would be in the minority in the Senate. Ingrate”.
But the hardest blow came later. Musk released the bomb by insinuating that Donald Trump would be present in the notorious “Epstein Files”, who preserve the secrets of the rich pedophile friend of the VIPs and then “suicide” in prison. “It is time to release the real bomb. Trump is in Epstein’s files. This is why they don’t make them public. Have a nice day,” wrote the founder of Tesla, also mentioning the possibility that Trump is put under impeachment. The White House has not yet officially responded, but the damage is done. Musk has also relaunched a video in which Trump is seen to dance and celebrate with Epstein in a party of the nineties. Meanwhile, Trump raised the level of the clash: “The easiest way to save billions and billions of dollars is finished the contracts and the government subsidies of Elon. I have always been surprised that Biden has not done so,” wrote the president on Truth Social.
On the international front, Trump spoke to Xi Jinping for an hour and a half. He called the conversation “productive”, in which he said he had also discussed rare lands. But China has denied conciliatory tones, instead asking for the removal of the “negative measures” imposed by the USA. A new round of talks has been announced, but the tension remains very high. On Ukraine, Trump admitted that perhaps “it is better that the war continues” until the two sides are really ready to negotiate. A surprising admission, which marks the failure of that electoral promise according to which he would “stop the conflict on a day”. Meanwhile, Kyiv hits the Russian aerial bases with new drones, while the German Chancellor Merz in the Oval Office Intakes Trump to commit himself to a respite. Steve Bannon, Long date of the President of the President, he publicly asked for the opening of federal investigations on Musk and the immediate suspension of each contract between his companies and the government. The air is made of accounts.
The collapse of Tesla on the stock exchange did not wait: in a few hours, the title has lost tens of billions of capitalization, with the most serious flexion of the last twelve months. The war between Titans frightened the markets, while Spacex and Neuralink also observe the next moves of the White House apprehensive. In the meantime, Musk has launched a survey on X: is a new political party that represents “80% of Americans in the middle”? AND The first concrete sign that the magnate could use its media empire to challenge Trump also on the electoral level. A move that could definitively split the conservative front. The implosion of the Trump-Musk axis arrives in an already hot moment. The president decided to restore the restrictions on the entrance to the United States for students and citizens of various African countries and others in Muslim majority. The measure caused protests heated in different universities, from Harvard to Stanford, who had already undergone federal cuts.
But beyond the personal feud, this clash could mark the end of an illusion: that Trumpism was part of a historical cycle, the usual pendulum between liberalism and conservatism theorized by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., historical adviser of President John Kennedy. But no: this is not an alternation, it is a deflagration. The system is not oscillating. He is imploding. In the collapse of the alliance between the most powerful man and the richest one, the failure of an idea of absolute power in the United States is glimpsed, where politics and money merge without brakes. And now that the pact has jumped, it could be the whole America who pays the price of the war between Titans.
Meanwhile, the collaborators of the White House have planned a call between Donald Trump and Elon Musk for today, after the violent clash via social media with heavy exchanges between the two.