• Trump dismissed Elon Musk’s peace offering, calling him “insane” and showing little interest in reconciliation.

• Their public feud, sparked by Musk’s criticism of Trump’s policies, escalated on social media.

• While Musk initially threatened to decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and later appeared open to reconciliation, Trump remained unconcerned and focused on his legislative agenda.

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    Narcissists hate being ignored or called unimportant. Trump flippantly dismissing him as “nuts” and moving on is the ultimate insult.

    I’m sure Musk has an army reining him in, but that’s legitimately hard for Musk to ignore.

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      he can direct xitter to attack trump and the magats, since alot of voters use xitter still.

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      Musk may be the richest man on earth, but there’s several things he craves that none of that money can ever buy. Like respect. Love. Being able to hold your pee. A working dick.

      You know, the simple quiet enjoyments the majority of working class people don’t have nearly as much issues with.

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        The funny thing is that money can definitely buy respect, Carnegie and Rockefeller still have their names scattered about from their so called philanthropy and earned a grudging respect from it. With a fraction of his wealth Musk could’ve done a small but notable infrastructure and building deal in a small town or two and utterly revived them. Viola grudging respect.

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        Most of his money is in the US and DJ Trump can tank Musk easily.DJ Trump doesn’t have to worry about winning next term. We are eff’ed

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          Money, baby. He still (alas) has enough right now he could afford to primary every single Republican that is hard-core Maga, and potentially make Trump a lame duck for two years(depending on how the cult views all this). Which would mean that Trump would no longer be newsworthy, and would drive him up a fucking wall. Of course, then we would have to deal with a new political power and cult of musk