Musk and Trump Were Always Strange Bedfellows

LOS ANGELES - June 8, 2025 - PRLog -- Political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson in his latest work Musk-Buying Trump, Bigotry and America (Middle Passage Press) and Amazon) says this about the prelude to the musk-Trump feud, "He is not the right guy. He doesn't seem to have the sort of character that reflects well on the United States." The "right guy" that mega billionaire Elon Musk referred to during the 2016 presidential campaign was then GOP presidential candidate Trump. Musk did not elaborate on what he meant by not having the right character to sit in the Oval Office. But his jaundiced view of Trump was more than enough for him to publicly back Trump's rival, Democratic presidential contender, Hillary Clinton.

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Two years later, Musk was seemingly back in the Democrat's fold. He backed the short-lived presidential campaign of Andrew Yang. Trump though was in a forgiving mood. In January 2019 he showered Musk with praise at an international financial conference, "You know, we have to protect Thomas Edison, and we have to protect all of these people that came up with originally the lightbulb and the wheel and all of these things. And he's one of our very smart people, and we want to cherish those people."

The "he" was Musk. Trump clearly intended to send a peace keeping signal to Musk that he didn't hold any ill feelings toward him. He showed it through more than just glowing praise. He publicly backed Musk in his fight to keep his Tesla plant running during the COVID pandemic. He scurried to Kennedy Space Center in Florida to watch the Musk manufactured Space X rocket launch two NASA astronauts.

That was then. The moment that Trump didn't need Musk's money it was only a matter of time before he didn't need Musk. The only thing missing was an excuse to kick him to the curb. Musk gave him that when he openly assailed Trump's budget bill. But if it hadn't been that it would have been something else. That's always the case when you pair two strange bedfellows. And Trump and Musk were that from day one.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. He is the author of  Musk-Buying Trump, Bigotry and America  (Middle Passage Press) He is the host of the weekly The Hutchinson Report Facebook Livestreamed His political affairs commentaries can be found weekly on thehutchinsonreport.net