In a dangerous world, the explosive Trump-Musk bust-up is more terrifying than titillating

Elon Musk posted successful February that helium loved his president, patron and idiosyncratic friend, "as overmuch arsenic a consecutive antheral tin emotion different man."

And they had truthful overmuch successful common: colossal egos; mercurial governmental views; compulsive societal media habits.

Yet, it was wide to astir each but the astir hopeless MAGA romantics that this rocket-fuelled megastar bromance was doomed to fail.

But who would person predicted an extremity this spectacular - their narration undergoing a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" to rival the astir explosive of Mr Musk's trial rockets.

Their hysterical tit-for-tat connected societal media mightiness beryllium the worldly of Hollywood tabloids, but its consequences could beryllium grave.

The break-up has already had a large interaction connected Mr Musk's wealth, with Tesla shares sliding 15% connected the news.

But Mr Musk's societal media level and $250m of governmental donations played nary tiny portion successful getting Mr Trump and his supporters into the White House.

If that wealth and power were to crook against them, it could spot them out.

And successful presumption of strategical significance, Elon Musk's SpaceX is nary mean company.

In 2024, it averaged a rocket motorboat each 3 days, accounting for astir 90% of the US orbital motorboat marketplace and took much cargo into abstraction past twelvemonth than the remainder of the satellite combined.

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Elon Musk already appears to person backed down connected his menace to decommission the SpaceX Crew Dragon that ferries astronauts to the International Space Station.

Doing truthful would person risked the lives of the unit connected board, leaving the US and its planetary partners reliant connected Russian hardware to instrumentality them successful and retired of orbit.

Nor is it apt Mr Trump would, oregon adjacent could, instrumentality down a institution arsenic indispensable to US interests arsenic SpaceX.

Although the souring of relations volition beryllium bully quality for his up-and-coming rivals similar Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin motorboat company.

SpaceX is heavy reliant connected authorities contracts from NASA and the US military. But it could beryllium years earlier a rival tin rival its near-monopoly connected abstraction launches.

The 2 men could, of course, spot things up. It wouldn't beryllium the archetypal clip either has said outrageous things connected societal media that they aboriginal shrugged off.

But successful 1 way, the harm has already been done.

The satellite has witnessed 2 of its astir almighty radical enactment similar teenagers with nary grounds of the wisdom, restraint oregon cool-headedness astir would expect of reliable businessmen and heads of state.

Given the authorities of the satellite close now, what the lurid details of their enactment says astir the 2 men is much terrifying than titillating.