When Elon Musk joined Donald Trump on the campaign trail in 2024, their various antagonists — liberals and progressives and each man’s factional enemies on the right — started making versions of the same prediction: Musk wouldn’t last long . The two were obviously “ doomed to clash .” On Election Night, the prospect functioned as a dark coping mechanism (“Well, at least we have an inevitable and absolutely grotesque Trump-Musk falling-out to look forward to in a few months,” etc.), while reports of ego-driven tensions arrived with scriptlike inevitability . The prospect of a Trump-Musk blowup was instant Beltway wisdom. “The joke among some Trump officials is that neither man enjoys sharing the stage or power or acclaim — so the bromance could easily go sideways,” the Axios boys c

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