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Elon's Peeve Takes on Don's Vanity in Hot Reality Show Episode
By Tom Kagy | 06 Jun, 2025

A hilarious social media tussle is the least this duo can provide after inflicting so much chaos on the world.

In one corner we have a terminally vain politician (let's call him Don as it suggests a mafia capo with a tendency to scoff at the law) whose sole vision for the US is turning it into a toll booth with which to funnel billions into his family businesses and collect world-class tributes to gratify ego needs. Key to that toll booth is tariffs that he can personally adjust based on tributes offered by a particular nation.

In the other corner we have a successful, highly rational industrialist (let's call him Elon as the name embodies a nice blend of nerd and élan) with a peevish nature that lashes out irrationally when faced with obstacles, even ones that aren't his own (Remember "that pedo guy"?).  His life is a constant battle between rationality and peeve.

Don and Elon's marriage was one of convenience, cemented in the exciting months preceding the 2024 election, to provide what each badly needed.  Don got an extra quarter billion dollars spent on his campaign plus the support of Elon admirers among disaffected males with Walter Mitty dreams of supernerd glory. 

Elon got a buddy capable of eliminating the bureaucratic annoyances that had hampered the operations of his then-booming, now-struggling EV business, as well as insurance for his space venture which relies heavily on government contracts.  

As recently as two years ago Elon had been rational in his political leanings, eschewing the kind of views espoused by Don.  But frustration with California bureaucracy — and possibly as well with its community property laws — turned Elon into a rabid ultra-conservative willing to do pretty much anything to give expression to his peeve, including selling all his properties and moving to a deep-red state, then embracing his new bud's retro-nationalistic, even retro-racist policies.

So what went wrong?  The inevitable.  

Elon's deep-seated rationality chafed at Don's totally random tariff policy purely on grounds of economic stupidity.  And Elon made his views known, even while he was still bunking in the White House.  

Elon also saw that Don's "Big Beautiful Bill" would actually increase the deficit by trillions.  Not only was this anathema to Elon's rationality, it chafed in light of the big hit his EV brand took from association with Elon's crude, thankless and largely ineffectual effort at trying to cut $2 trillion from federal spending by mass-firing employees of any federal agency he could get near. 

What made Don's bill even more galling to Elon was that it eliminates tax credits for EVs and other green-energy initiatives like the solar-panel-battery comginations of the kind sold by Elon's company.  At the same time, it leaves in massive tax breaks for oil companies.  

I do believe Elon when he says that what he's bothered by is Don's inconsistency, not the impact on his EV company.  After all, most Tesla sales wouldn't even have qualified for the credits.  And being an established leader in the industry, if anything, Tesla would consider it an advantage to deprive struggling, up-and-coming rivals of Uncle Sam's helping hand.

That blend of offense to sheer rationality and peeve at the favoring of oil companies over new-energy companies would have seemed galling to Elon who, at the time, was knee-deep in Tesla's sales meltdown around the world.  The offense would have been more palpable because only a few days earlier Don refused to pick Elon's buddy Jared Isaacman to head up NASA.  

Aside from the fact that the confirmation would have helped Elon feel more secure about future multi-billion-dollar NASA contracts at a time when Blue Horizon and Chinese rocket companies are closing on reusable rockets, the rejection would have been personally embarrassing to Elon and seemed particularly ungrateful from a guy whose election he had largely financed.

That's when peevish Elon took full control and dashed off an X post calling Don's big bill a "disgusting abomination".  Actually all tax and spending bills are disgusting abominations when scrutinized.  They all contain random unrelated chunks of pork needed to get votes.  You don't want to know how the sausage is made.  This was probably the first one that Elon, in a massive fit of pique, had actually taken time to scrutinize.

But Don was probably more triggered by Elon's other statements.  For example, claiming that Don wouldn't have won the election without his help — a direct challenge to Don's vanity.  Or typing a resounding "Yes" to another poster's question as to whether Don should be impeached.  In full peeve mode, Elon even went on to opine that Don was in the records pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein, the pedophile procurer for prominent men, who had committed suicide in prison under mysterious circumstances.

That latter statement may have forced Don to hold his typing finger, given the strong likelihood that it contained more truth than he would ever want revealed.  But by then he had already suggested that Elon was just hostile at no longer being a part of Don's White House orbit.  

This may have touched a raw nerve given various reports that have surfaced suggesting Elon had worn out his welcome a couple weeks before his departure when his 130 days as a Special Government Employee ended in late May.  After all, had he so desired, Don could have invited Elon to stay on as a guest, advisor or some other personal capacity.  

Even as we revile the chaos Don is inflicting on the world, and the role played by Elon in putting him in position to do so, our prurient natures can't help also feeling a bit of childish glee at seeing their deeply flawed characters laid bare for the world to snicker at.  After all, they have voluntarily provided us with the world's biggest reality show these past seven months.  And this has been just another episode of, unfortunately, a two- or four-year series.



In full peeve mode, Elon even went on to opine that Don was in the records pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein, the pedophile procurer for prominent men, who had committed suicide in prison under mysterious circumstances.

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