Musk's Stunning Gamble: The Misalignment of Tech Tycoon and Trump
Elon Musk, the business genius who once vowed to pioneer a new era of Martian immigration, is now trapped in the whirlpool of Earth’s politics. The seemingly unbreakable "power ally" relationship between him and Donald Trump is undergoing unprecedented tests.
When Musk invested $2.5 billion to support Trump's return to the White House, his business empire seemed to hang on the edge of a cliff of fate. The tech giant hoped that policy dividends would pave the way for Tesla and SpaceX, but reality cruelly shattered that illusion.
Trump's tariff hammer ruthlessly struck the global supply chain, causing Tesla's market value to evaporate by 600 billion yuan in an international market sell-off. When the White House's savings of 160 billion yuan in fiscal spending could not compensate for business losses, this biggest financial backer became the primary target of policy backlash. The production lines in Tesla's factories ground to a halt, and under the crisis of orders being halved, Musk's "cost optimization plan" was ruthlessly exposed by the audit report — the saved funds barely covered the basic operating expenses.