Put two narcissists into a room, especially an oval room — say in the White House — and this is what you get. Ringside seats at a Smack Down.
Who didn’t see this coming?
Not only are these two narcissists, they’re also both filthy rich. Well, Elon is. We only got to see one of TACO Don’s tax records. The one where he paid a whopping $750 dollars in taxes.
That’s dollars. Not thousands or millions or billions. It’s just dollars. I don’t know about you, but I paid $14,000 dollars this year, and it broke me. As in it made me broke. So I’m questioning — as many have — just how “rich” the Orange Menace really is. At least on paper.
Still, they both have enough money that even tanking Tesla, or the entire United States, won’t bankrupt them. Well, they’ll file bankruptcy on a particular company they own, but they won’t be bankrupt.
Moral bankruptcy
They won’t be bankrupt — except in morality, loyalty, and any form of compassion. Even towards each other.
Narcissists only care about themselves. Imagine who those with money care about. That would be NOBODY. Including the guy who bought your way into office, and the guy who put you on the national and international stages.
Stab a narcissist in the back, and do they not bleed?
Not like you and I. We bleed blood. And money during tariff wars and at tax time. They bleed, not from a fake ear injury, but from wounds to their immense — yet shallow — egos.
Of course, they might start bleeding money. Elon could lose $38 billion in government contracts. And, if the OBBB — One Big Beautiful Bill — passes the Senate, he will lose potential buyers of his cars because there will be no more tax credit for buying electric.
TACO Don and his flunkies in Congress will lose the financial backing of the richest man on earth. That’s a lot of Big Macs.
However, it’s not the loss of money that drives these two. If it were, Elon wouldn’t have to be ordered to work at Tesla 40 hours a week to try to stem the Tesla bleeding. TACO Don wouldn’t risk alienating the flow of lucre from the richest guy.
It’s the loss of prestige. TACO Don thinks his OBBB will be his legacy. He also thinks it will protect him from contempt of court charges, because that’s in the bill, too. And now, Elon is fighting against that bill, trying to influence people in Congress who his money helped put in office.
Elon’s reason for harnessing his electric cars and space ships to TACO Don’s wagon is being destroyed. First, his entire DOGE effort only brought anger, alienation, bad press, and Tesla stock tanking. Ego blows for sure.
Then his buddy TACO Don tries to pass a bill that undermines both electric cars, by eliminating tax credits for electric car owners, and the entire Silicon Valley contingency, who are Elon’s bros. Both pieces of the legislation hit Elon where he lives and attack his ego.
I’ll let everyone else tell you more about what started the playground fight. But, the OBBB does contain a line putting a ten year moratorium on states’ regulating AI development, an encroachment on the sacrosanct States’ Rights MAGA is always hollering about. Even Margery Taylor Green is upset about that, though she voted for the bill, claiming not to have read it. That sounds about right.
Online attacks by the former best buddies
This entire fiasco has gone from hyperbole to more hyperbole. From Elon posting on X in February,
“I love @realDonaldTrump as much as a straight man can love another man.”
To Elon’s latest on X, THREE MONTHS LATER,
“Time to drop the really big bomb. Trump is in the Epstein files.”
And, agreeing with a poster that Trump should be impeached.
On TACO Don’s end, he told ABC that Elon has lost his mind. After initially calling him his “first buddy,” he now claims on his Truth Social…
“Elon was ‘wearing thin’. I asked him to leave. I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted(that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!”
Elon, unlike House Representatives, actually read the bill
How did TACO Don think Elon was going to react to the OBBB? Did he think he wouldn’t find out? Did he think that Elon, like MTG, wouldn’t read the bill?
Can money buy love?
Did Elon actually believe he could buy the White House? Apparently he did. He actually did rent it for awhile. However, even money can’t make two power hungry dudes with immense needs for affirmation, accolades, and adoration get along forever.
Or even for four or five months.
In fact, they may have set a record for two narcissists in the same oval room.
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Previously Published on Medium
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