Trump vs. Elon- Who Will Win?

The world's richest man versus the world's most powerful man

May we always live in interesting times.

A quick recap of recent events:

• Elon gets Trump elected by giving him $200 million and boosting him on Twitter/X.

• Trump hires Elon to slash public spending.

• Elon slashes tons of bona fide waste and corruption, along with legitimate services that taxpayers need and are paying for, but completely ignores the biggest and easiest savings wins — jubileeing the $33 trillion national debt to save $1.2 trillion per year and/or slashing the military budget because the U.S. already spends more than the next ten nations combined.

• Trump presents a budget to Congress that contains three times more corruption and handouts to billionaires than Elon saved.

• Elon says so.

• Trump throws a hissy fit.

• Elon quits and says what everyone already knew — that Trump is in the pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s files.

• Trump threatens to scrap Elon’s tens of billions in government contracts, wiping $152 billion off Tesla’s overpriced market cap, making it the most expensive tweet in history. (So far.)

• Elon says he’ll decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, the only U.S. vehicle capable of sending astronauts to the International Space Station, potentially setting the U.S. space program back a decade or more.

It’s almost like we shouldn’t put so much power in so few hands!

So… who wins this lovers’ quarrel?

Let me offer three points of perspective:

1. Everything is a distraction from the main issue.

Ukraine vs. Russia is a distraction.

Gaza vs. Israel is a distraction.

Oil vs. solar is a distraction.

Cut vs. tax is a distraction.

Trump vs Elon is a distraction.

Black vs. white, gay vs. straight, trans vs. gay and straight, abortion vs. pro-life, Islam vs. the West, citizens vs. immigrants, liberal vs. conservative… all distractions.

So we never focus on the one thing that will help all of these groups:

Stopping bankers from creating money out of thin air.

So long as bank shareholders can loot the nation for $1.2+ trillion in interest and another $2-3 trillion in purchasing power each and every year, they’re happy for the plebs to tear themselves apart.

Money and power are the only thing that matter to the rich and powerful. And besides, who cares if the West collapses when you live on a hyperyacht and have mansions on private islands around the world?

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2. Trump made a mistake when hiring Elon

Would you rather have Elon help you redo your family’s budget or have him help you build new assets?

Elon is a builder, not a penny-pincher.

He’s a tech nerd who likes to solve civilization-sized problems, not trim a few million in kickbacks here and a few billion in shady contracts there.

If I was the POTUS (or the PM of the UK or Canada, or Xi Jinping, whoever), I’d be on the phone offering Elon Musk the biggest sweetheart deal in my nation’s history:

Come build here.

• Help us solar roof every building in the nation.

• Help us crack SMRs and micro-reactors to drive energy prices to near-zero.

• Help us build autonomous gigafactories to drive the cost of houses to <$50,000.

• Help us build silent, clean public transportation in all our cities in the form of autonomous maglev taxis.

• Help us drive the price of high-speed internet to near-zero.

• Help us build vactrains so we zip from New York to LA in 30 minutes or London to Paris in 3.5 minutes.

You’ve have a quieter, cleaner, richer, far more affordable nation.

And with the nation as Elon’s sole financial backer, all the profits from his new startups would flow back to the people, so you could lower taxes and stealth taxes on the poor, saving billions like DOGE without actually hurting anyone, and get the real working people’s economy booming again.

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3. Elon will win in the end

It’s a math thing.

Elon is 53.

Trump is 78.

Elon has $393 billion.

Trump has max $5 billion.

Elon is younger and has more money.

Elon will outlast.

It’s really just a matter of time.

Elon can move to almost any nation on earth and he will be welcomed with open arms and waterfalls of investment.

Love them or hate them, Trump is the past and Elon is the future.

Or rather…

Trump represents the old form of power:

• rigged “democracy”

• republic institutions

• legacy media

• old dark money

Elon represents the new form of power:

• transnational oligarchic corporatism

• neo-instititutions (crypto, decentralized edtech, etc)

• new owned media (X)

• direct dark money (self-funded politics)

Elon is now toying with starting his own contender party, the profoundly unoriginal “The America Party,” so we’ll see how that shakes out.

But in the end, Trump can only serve so many terms in office before he’s inevitably dethroned, and Elon will likely outlive Trump.

Trump loses eventually, and the world will be better for it.

The question is: Is the world better if Elon is eventually the President of the United States and the leader of the free world?

Only time will tell.

One thing is for certain:

None of these fellows will save the day.

Utopia is not just around the corner.

Psalm 146:3 is the greatest political reminder ever penned:

“Do not put your trust in human princes; there is no help for you there.”