At the risk of becoming annoyingly repetitious, I find myself thoroughly enjoying the continuing saga of the breakup of Washington’s most famous (or infamous?) duo . . . mainly because they seem to have been the only two people on Earth who didn’t see it coming.

While the whole world knew from the start that two such power-mad, egomaniacal narcissists could not possibly maintain such a close relationship for long, it was those very egos that kept each of them from admitting that the other one might dare to challenge him. But that is what happened, and now we are seeing the escalation of what promises to be a protracted, down-and-dirty separation.

What fun!

To recap briefly, first Elon criticized Donnie’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” as being the opposite of what it professed to be. Then Donnie said Elon was ungrateful for all the favors he, Donnie, had done for him, Elon (the richest man in the world, who clearly doesn’t need favors from anyone). Then Elon doubled down and said Donnie should be grateful to him, because it was he, Elon, who had put him, Donnie, in the White House in the first place.

Fighting words, indeed . . . because we all know that Donnie can’t tolerate anyone else’s taking credit for anything. So he fought back yesterday with the biggest weapon in his arsenal: his executive power. He has threatened to attack Elon where it really hurts — in the old profit-and-loss statement — saying:

“The easiest way to save money in our budget, billions and billions of dollars, is to terminate Elon’s governmental subsidies and contracts.” [Anthoy Zurcher, BBC News, June 5, 2025.]

Oh, dear!

But wait . . . Elon has his own armory. First he called for — dare I even say it? — Trump’s impeachment. Next he threatened to prematurely decommission his SpaceX company’s Dragon spacecraft, which the U.S. relies on to shuttle our astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station.

And then, yesterday afternoon, he dropped what he called the “really big bomb” . . . suggesting, though without evidence (yet), that Donnie appears in unreleased files related to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. [Id.]

Holy . . .

Now it’s getting really personal. And nasty. Though, come to think of it, another disgusting episode from Donnie’s past shouldn’t really come as a huge surprise to anyone. But still, something may have struck a nerve, because later, the White House’s Press Secretary — the always exhilarating Karoline Leavitt — had only this to offer:

“This is an unfortunate episode from Elon, who is unhappy with the One Big Beautiful Bill because it does not include the policies he wanted.” [Id.]

In all fairness, Ms. Leavitt has one of the world’s most difficult jobs — right up there with my favorite Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov — requiring them to keep a straight face while delivering the most blatant, outrageous rubbish. In her place — where I would never allow myself to be, but if I were — I would be updating my c.v. about now.

Anyway, Donnie himself wisely avoided mentioning his former friend for the rest of the day, and only posted on his Truth Social site that he didn’t mind Elon’s “turning against him,” but does wish he had quit sooner. [Id.]

And then he made another pitch for his proposed tax and spending bill, and called it a night.

Thank the gods for small favors . . . I’m not sure I could take much more in one sitting.

But happily, there’s still tomorrow to look forward to.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
6/6/25