First off, I just wanna say Elon Musk‘s son sure has a great left hook for a five year-old! We’ll get to that at the end.
Musk was already on his way to smoothly transition out of the Trump regime, in hopes of saving what remains of his brand, when things abruptly shifted. Now Musk has been semi-nicely kicked to the curb. What happened?
What Shifted?
The obvious thing is that Musk committed the cardinal sin of publicly disagreeing with Trump. Quelle horreur! But as Musk of all people should well have known, public dissent and disagreement are not allowed in authoritarian regimes (or companies).
Musk had said he was “disappointed” with Trump’s big, beautiful bill. Woah boy! This bill is supposed to be Trump’s grand achievement, and now Musk is publicly dissing it…on CBS no less. Nobody puts baby in the corner!
That might well have been the last straw, but something else happened days before that was really the culprit in getting the ball rolling for Musk’s exit.