Trump and Musk Fight, and the Internet Pulls Out the Popcorn
It was a messy divorce, and the internet was watching from the sidelines. So of course, the memes were out in full force.
As the relationship between President Trump and Elon Musk unraveled publicly on Thursday, bystanders flooded social media with memes comparing them to the main figures in some of the most legendary feuds, including the teenage frenemies of 'Mean Girls' and the rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
'The big beautiful bill led to the big beautiful breakup,' one person observed on X, Mr. Musk's social media platform, referring the disagreement over Mr. Trump's domestic policy bill that set off the clash. An X account devoted to political jokes posted a doctored image of an iPhone emergency alert: 'THE GIRLS ARE CRASHING OUTTTTT,' it announced.
It's 'like Kendrick v. Drake but with two Drakes,' another X user posted, comparing Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk to the rapper who was perceived as having lost his feud with Mr. Lamar after Mr. Lamar performed a diss track at the Super Bowl in February.
Other scenarios recast Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk as a divorced couple sharing custody of their child, Vice President JD Vance; supermarket lobsters being egged on to fight; and two monkeys engaged in a knife fight surrounded by cheering spectators clutching fistfuls of money — a scene from a 2000 episode of 'The Simpsons.'
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