Musk and Trump Part I
They have fun!
Elon Musk recently chose to decide the matter of whether disgraced, twice impeached one-term president Donald Trump’s Twitter account should be reinstated after that whole kerfuffle about him using it to inspire a bloody coup using the same method I used to determine whether or not readers wanted me to watch and write about Dollman Versus Demonic Toys or Evil Bong 420.
In a misguided attempt at democracy, Musk chose to let “the people” decide the fate of Trump’s Twitter account through an online poll that found the deranged hate-monger winning by a relatively slim four point margin.
“The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated” Musk tweeted with deeply unearned self-importance.
Musk, however, apparently neglected to ask someone important about whether or not Donald Trump’s Twitter account should be reinstated: Donald Trump himself.
In a trademark fit of arrogance wedded to self-delusion wedded to terrible judgment, the Tesla mogul and D-grade social media provocateur thought he would be embraced by Trump AND his cultists as a liberator and a free speech warrior for giving him back the soapbox that helped him become the most powerful person in the world despite a glaring lack of qualifications: his Twitter account.
Musk is arrogant enough to think that Trump would see him as a kindred spirit: a maverick billionaire with a big mouth and no filter or sense of shame who is addicted to social media and forever shadow-boxing the malevolent forces of political correctness.
The hero of many a sad incel forgot just how petty and resentful the ex-president could be. That’s crazy. Because Trump is pretty much the personification of pettiness and resentment.
On July 12th, Trump posted on Truth Social, the social media site he owns, “When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocket ships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, ‘drop to your knees and beg’ and he would have done it.”
Trump is, of course, a pathological liar. Yet there’s an element of truth in that assertion because after Musk reinstated Trump’s Twitter account and Trump responded not with gratitude, appreciate or child-like glee but rather with irritation and arrogance Musk dropped to his knees and begged Trump to play with him and his beloved right-wing sycophants in his digital sandbox.
In a truly sad display, Musk, who is over fifty years old and has over a hundred children, has been thirst-posting tweets about how Trump must be really tempted to re-join Twitter on account of it being so sexy and hip and popular and committed to free speech.
Elon Musk is Nick Fury assembling his Hate Speech Avengers: himself, of course, in the Iron Man role, Kanye West, Jordan Peterson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, The Babylon Bee and Donald Trump.
You can’t have a proper Hate Speech Avengers without Donald Trump. He’s like the Incredible Hulk in that he’s prone to wild mood swings and incoherent rage. Also, you wouldn’t like him when he’s angry. Or when he’s not angry. He’s a very unpleasant human being. I am not a fan.
Trump has used Musk’s desperate begging to promote the Truth Social, calling it “somewhat of a phenomena” and insisting, “I LOVE TRUTH.”
He must be referring to his social media site, because God knows Trump does not love the actual concept of truth.
Trump and Musk might be macho narcissists in desperate need of attention but they are also businessmen and pragmatists.
The truth of the matter is that Trump will need Twitter going forward because communicating with 100 million people on Twitter is preferable to yelling at 4.85 million cultists on Truth Social when you’re running for the biggest job in the world.
Twitter is the biggest game in town. It’s aggressively re-branding itself as The Elon Musk Show and a safe space for right-wing “free thinkers” (AKA conspiracy-minded bigots) to make vulnerable people feel unsafe. Trump is a huge part of this new vision.
My hunch is that Trump will continue to verbally emasculate Musk and make him beg. But eventually he will relent on the pragmatic basis that Truth Social is a phenomena, and amazing, and something everyone’s talking about but he needs to save our country and defeat the Communists and that means using Twitter as well as his beloved Truth Social. He’ll posit it as a huge victory, as will Musk.
Until that awful moment I will continue to derive unseemly delight in watching one horrible man humiliate another with the whole world watching and laughing.
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