To say the relationship is symbiotic is an understatement. Trump has the political power; Musk has endless money<\/p>\n
Two men, two huge egos, two quests for endless amounts of power and money \u2013 joined, for now, in the pursuit of those common goals. That\u2019s the story behind the tight relationship between Donald Trump<\/a> and Elon Musk<\/a>, the billionaire who hangs out in the West Wing of the White House and has the ear of the president.<\/p>\n But there are cracks in the facade of closeness, and \u2013 based on Trump\u2019s past intolerance for anything but total loyalty among his allies \u2013 one must wonder how long it will last. And should the bromance come apart, it is likely do so with a bang heard \u2019round the world.<\/p>\n Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To say the relationship is symbiotic is an understatement. Trump has the political power; Musk has endless money Two men, two huge egos, two quests for endless amounts of power and money \u2013 joined, for now, in the pursuit of those common goals. That\u2019s the story behind the tight relationship between Donald Trump and Elon … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}