Elonald. Elump. Trelon. Tresk. Mump. Whatever combined name you gave Elon Musk and Donald Trump while they worked together to reduce any remnant of a social safety net that continued to reduce in the United States, say goodbye to it because it is over.
Last week Musk announced his departure from the federal government in what initially seemed to be an amicable farewell. The tensions between the two, however, quickly devoted to the Musk platform of Musk after Trump had withdrawn his choice to run NASA-Jared Isaacman, a narrow employee of Musk-Een as the billionaire, who prefers the financing of the government, criticized Trump’s so-called “big beautiful invoice” as “pigs.” In response, Trump threatened to reduce the government subsidies and contracts of Musk. What followed was a series of ad hominem attacks, which resulted in Musk proverb He would be out of use by his company SpaceX used by NASA.
The impasse caused a flurry of meme trends around Musk and Trump’s emotional volatility, including comparisons with the protagonists of Stupid and stupid (1994). As a team, Trump and Musk actually paralyzed the federal government in a series of cuts on financing, some of which have been challenged by the courts for circumventing congress forces. Musk, at least in public interest, seemed to share a deep friendship with Trump as the non -chosen leader of the elusive Ministry of Governmental Efficiency (Doge).
The internet has reduced the Fallout of Trump-Musk to the behavior of teenage girls and ROM-Com Break-up suddenly. While these and other references are harp on homophobic and misogynistic tropics, I take everything that the egos of these men dismantle.
Much of the memes idealize Trump and Musk as a ‘bromance’, a term that describes a non-romantic relationship between straight men (why can’t they just say friendship?!). As a similar homophobic terms that invalid queernness, such as “No gay“And”Girl Crush,“The concept of” bromance “has a latent energy that rejects attraction of the same sex. It says:” Look, a relationship between two men who are not gay! “
Yesterday, May 5, the Fall -Out reached its peak when Musk, the richest man in the world, claimed that Trump appeared in classified files about serial sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. At 3.10 pm on Thursday, Musk wrote: “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realdonaldtrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason why they were not made public. Happy day, DJT!”
Trump has appeared on photos with the convicted sex offender, who was imprisoned for trading young girls at the time of his apparent suicide, but some files on the behavior of the notorious criminal remain sealed. Epstein Reportedly Called himself as Trump’s ‘best friend’.
Within two hours after the statement of Musk, sports journalist Jamele Hill placed a screengrab of the moment that Kendrick Lamar Drake accused a pedophile during his performance of “Not Like Us” during the Super Bowl Half -Time Show. Grok, an AI owned by Musk’s company Xai, responded to the post with a generated image repeat The scene, with musk as Lamar.
Despite the seriousness of Musk’s allegations against Trump, much of the viral content that is circulating this week compares the consequences between demonstrably the two most influential men in global politics to a female conflict, in which the ‘fire book’ is invoked Mean girls (2004), in which a catty group of teenage girls creates a scrapbook of their worst enemies.
Another meme proposes stock figures from Trump and Musk spread on their beds, kick their legs up while they lie on their stomachs, type on their phones, a fixed attitude of the unid -dimensional female characters from 2000 Sex and the city Carrie Bradshaw.
The memes that originated from the Trump/Musk -Vete, poke pleasure in a ridiculous and corrupt relationship that is predictable and reveal the vulnerability of the egos and the social functioning of powerful men. But these images also resort to the oldest trick in the book: call your playground -enemy a ‘sissy’. We can do better than that.
