The Inconvenient Truth About Elon Musk's New Love Affair With Trump

On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported on Elon Musk's increasingly close relationship with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, which has flourished to the point that the two "talk on the phone several times a month." The conversation subjects tend to cover Trump's attempt to regain White House control and the potential opportunities for Musk and his companies, like Tesla and SpaceX, under another potential Trump administration. Musk rejected the report's central conceit--that Trump had discussed an advisory role for him should the former president be reelected--but he certainly keeps behaving like a typical Trump supplicant. Just look at his X posts following Trump's 34-count conviction in the New York hush money trial, in which he refers to the process as "troubling," endorses a Sequoia Capital partner's 300,000 donation to Trump's campaign, proclaims that "great damage was done today to the public's faith in the American legal system," and reply-guys a couple of characteristically lame Babylon Bee headlines. President Joe Biden's reelection campaign has responded with a scoff, declaring that, "Despite what Donald Trump thinks, America is not for sale to billionaires, oil and gas executives, or even Elon Musk."