#Latest news with #spectacleWall Street Journal2 days agoPoliticsWall Street JournalThe National Slap Fight ContinuesWhat the heck is going on? Have some of America's leaders gone completely bonkers? How else to explain the world's richest man and the globe's most powerful political figure slapping each other around with the cockiness of pimply teenagers? President Trump and once-best buddy Elon Musk looked like plastic Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots in that tiny Mattel boxing ring. We—the observing public—find it hard to turn away from the spectacle. Instead, we watch as the red and blue (or in this case, red and red) pugilists land blow after blow. But for what purpose?
Wall Street Journal2 days agoPoliticsWall Street JournalThe National Slap Fight ContinuesWhat the heck is going on? Have some of America's leaders gone completely bonkers? How else to explain the world's richest man and the globe's most powerful political figure slapping each other around with the cockiness of pimply teenagers? President Trump and once-best buddy Elon Musk looked like plastic Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots in that tiny Mattel boxing ring. We—the observing public—find it hard to turn away from the spectacle. Instead, we watch as the red and blue (or in this case, red and red) pugilists land blow after blow. But for what purpose?
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