Social media posts are not rocket fuel, but if they were, Elon Musk would be on the moon today. Over the summer, Musk famously got into an online feud with President Donald Trump about everything from Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, to Musk’s threats to form a new political party, to the Jeffrey Epstein files.

On Oct. 20, Musk was at it again—this time going to war against Sean Duffy, the Secretary of Transportation and the acting administrator of NASA.

The casus belli occurred when Duffy appeared on CNBC and spoke about NASA’s push to get astronauts back on the moon before the end of Trump’s term. In 2021 , the space agency awarded SpaceX, Musk’s company, a $2.89 billion contract to develop the spacecraft that would take astronauts down to the surface on the first two lunar landings—A

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