Mom and Dad are Fighting

Good times gone (January WSJ photo)

What's captured the attention of Washington and the media in the last 24 hours was the war of words between President Trump and Elon Musk.

By Thursday night, Trump had publicly toyed with cutting off government contracts to Musk’s companies, said the billionaire “went CRAZY” and suggested that he is suffering from “Trump derangement syndrome.”

In response, Musk, the world’s richest man, floated starting a new political party, suggested that Trump should be impeached, argued that Trump’s tariffs would trigger a recession and pledged to decommission a valuable piece of space equipment on which the government relies. He also alleged that Trump’s name appears in documents stemming from a federal investigation into convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, insinuating that Trump was in some way linked to his criminal behavior.

There have been hundreds of takes and projections about how this "feud" will end, so your humble blogger may as well add his: both men have risked their wealth--and their very lives--to get what they believe is important for the country. They're also very smart and won't walk away from imperfect solutions that move the ball forward. They may no longer love each other, but they'll end up working together.

Note: Donald Trump's name and contact information may well be in the Epstein documents, but not everyone in those files is guilty of crimes. Also, the Democrats threw everything--including fake allegations (e.g., putting Liz Cheney in front of a firing squad, outlawing abortion nationwide)--against him during the campaign; if there was any damaging Epstein evidence it would have been all over the news.