Musk vs Trump Feud: 10 ways they can destroy each other—legally
That's where
Elon Musk
is now. He's been yanked out of the
warm, binary womb of TrumpWorld.
No more bromance tweets. No more wink-wink White House briefings. No more red-carpeted corridors of power where he could whisper about AI doomsday while nudging
SpaceX
contracts. Just cold, hard betrayal.
And now? Now he wants revenge.
Here are 10 gloriously real, absurdly powerful, and completely legal ways that Trump and Musk can rip each other apart—like Neo and Agent Smith in an alley full of bad ideas.
1. Trump Pulls the Plug on Musk's Federal Billions
Trump, fresh off a fiscal sobriety bender and looking for budgetary scapegoats,
has a new mantra
: 'No woke space toys on my dime.' He's already floated cutting $3 billion worth of contracts to Musk's empire. That's not just pruning—it's taking a chainsaw to the money tree. Tesla loses its tax credits. Starlink gets kicked out of the Pentagon's good books. SpaceX is told to sit in the corner while Blue Origin waves from the Oval Office with a smug Bezos smirk.
This isn't just defunding—this is strategic neutering.
2. Musk Threatens the Republic via Rocket Blackmail
Musk didn't wait to be hit first. He threatened to
decommission the Dragon spacecraft
—the one that ferries
NASA
astronauts and lunch packets to the International Space Station. The unspoken message? Nice space programme you've got there. Be a shame if something happened to it. Suddenly, space diplomacy looks more like a hostage negotiation with a Bond villain in a Twitter hoodie.
3. Trump Can Yank Elon's Security Clearance
Every time Elon boasts about top-secret briefings, there's an Air Force general somewhere crying into his gin.
His clearance—granted through his role in military space launches—could be revoked with one swipe of Trump's Montblanc pen. Without it, Musk becomes a liability rather than an asset. He can still launch memes, just not missiles. And without Pentagon favours, his whole 'Iron Man meets Ayn Rand' routine collapses into a Reddit thread.
4. Elon Funds a Third Party Just to Spite Him
In classic Musk fashion, the Tesla tzar tweeted a poll asking if he should start a new centrist political party. It was part libertarian fantasy, part MAGA middle-finger, and 100% chaos. Over 1.8 million people voted 'Yes.' Even
if it doesn't win
, a Musk-backed third party could siphon off enough voters to sabotage Trump's 2028 ambitions.
Think Ross Perot meets a Neuralink experiment gone rogue.
5. Trump Targets Musk's Ketamine Chronicles
Bannon has demanded a drug probe into Musk's ketamine-fuelled soirées,
suggesting the billionaire is 'not of sound mind.'
That's ironic coming from a man who looks like he was raised on moonshine and conspiracy theories. But in TrumpWorld, personal destruction is political strategy. Imagine Musk dragged into a Senate hearing with Marjorie Taylor Greene asking, 'Were you or were you not high when naming your child X Æ A-12?'
6. Musk Unleashes Epstein Allegations
Without warning, Musk lobbed a digital hand grenade: that Trump's White House
deliberately delayed the release of Epstein files
because his name may have been in them.
He offered no evidence—just vibes and vengeance. But in a country where 30% of voters think Wayfair sells children, that's enough to spark headlines, hearings, and hashtags. When Elon says, 'Mark this post,' he's not just trolling—he's threatening to turn on the lights in a room no one wants to see.
7. Trump Ends DOGE—the Bureaucratic Crypto Baby
The Department of Government Efficiency, nicknamed DOGE, was Musk's vanity project: part startup, part prank, part Silicon Valley fever dream.
Its mission? Replace Washington's bureaucratic sludge with blockchain optimism and quarterly reports. Trump could axe it tomorrow and return the halls of power to their natural state: clogged, confused, and blissfully analog. No more agile government. No more 'lean federalism.
' Just 500-page PDFs printed in triplicate.
8. Elon Withholds the Final $100M
Musk had pledged a total of $350 million to support Trump's 2024 run. But the
final $100 million is still hanging
—like a Sword of Damocles in a cryptocurrency wallet.
Trump, a man who treats loyalty like a Costco membership, doesn't forgive open wallets with closed zips. This isn't just about money—it's about respect. And Musk knows just how much Trump hates being ghosted, especially by someone richer.
9. Trump Questions Musk's Citizenship
The Birther playbook is back.
Bannon claims Musk is an 'illegal alien.'
Never mind that Elon's been a naturalised American citizen since 2002. Trump doesn't need facts—just vibes, slogans, and a red hat. Expect rallies where Trump says, 'Elon? Great guy.
But I'm hearing things. People are saying.' That's how the political meat grinder starts: with an innuendo and ends with a Senate subcommittee.
10. Musk Starves MAGA's Internet
Starlink, Musk's satellite internet service, powers vast swathes of rural America—aka MAGA heartland. One well-timed update and Fox Nation stops loading. Steve Bannon's podcast gets frozen mid-rant. Truth Social becomes Truth Unavailable. Musk doesn't even need to admit fault.
He can just smirk and say, 'Server overload. We're working on it.' MAGA may love him, but they'll riot if they miss Tucker's rerun.
Final Thought: Welcome to the Unplugged War
This isn't a feud—it's a glitch in the Matrix. Two megalomaniacs,
both convinced they are The One.
Trump, the spiritual father of populist politics. Musk, the meme-mad prophet of techno-libertarianism. They fed each other, validated each other, needed each other. But now the code is breaking.
And if The Matrix taught us anything, it's this: when reality reasserts itself, the ones who rejected it scream the loudest. Musk took the red pill. Trump wrote the damn pill into law. Now they're locked in a fight to see who can bend reality back first. Only one can emerge from the simulation. The other gets ratioed on his own app.
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