{"id":32890,"date":"2025-02-09T12:04:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T12:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/they-will-collide-eventually-how-long-will-the-trump-musk-relationship-survive\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T12:04:28","slug":"they-will-collide-eventually-how-long-will-the-trump-musk-relationship-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/they-will-collide-eventually-how-long-will-the-trump-musk-relationship-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They will collide eventually\u2019: how long will the Trump-Musk relationship survive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bromance may fade, but the two megalomaniacs could still reshape the US as long as Trump\u2019s fickle affections hold<\/p>\n<p>A picture is worth a thousand words \u2013 or, more precisely, $288m. That was the sum tech entrepreneur Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/01\/31\/elon-musk-trump-donor-2024-election\/\">donated<\/a> to Donald Trump\u2019s presidential election campaign. His reward was dramatically illustrated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7213409\/elon-musk-us-government-trump\/\">cover of this week\u2019s Time magazine<\/a>: an image of Musk, coffee cup in hand, sitting behind the Resolute desk used by every US president since Jimmy Carter.<\/p>\n<p>Some speculated that the picture of \u201cPresident Musk\u201d was designed to provoke the thin-skinned Trump, who is known to revere Time magazine and has twice been named its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7200212\/person-of-the-year-2024-donald-trump\/\">person of the year<\/a>\u201d. The president reacted on Friday with a pointed joke: \u201cIs Time magazine still in business? I didn\u2019t even know that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/09\/trump-musk-relationship\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bromance may fade, but the two megalomaniacs could still reshape the US as long as Trump\u2019s fickle affections hold A picture is worth a thousand words \u2013 or, more precisely, $288m. That was the sum tech entrepreneur Elon Musk donated to Donald Trump\u2019s presidential election campaign. His reward was dramatically illustrated by the cover &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018They will collide eventually\u2019: how long will the Trump-Musk relationship survive?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/they-will-collide-eventually-how-long-will-the-trump-musk-relationship-survive\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018They will collide eventually\u2019: how long will the Trump-Musk relationship survive?\">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-32890","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\/32890","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=32890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}