When the President Meets the Richest Man: A Billion-Dollar Plastic Brotherhood
In June 2025, Musk suddenly fired shots on X platform: "This Congressional bill is like a block filled with garbage transactions stuffed by miners—bloated, corrupt, it should be hard-forked away!" Three days later, he further revealed Trump's connection with Epstein. Who would have thought that just a year ago, these two were wearing the same MAGA hats and calling each other brothers at a campaign rally, resembling those mutual-praising KOLs in the crypto circle.
The plot of this "power couple" is more thrilling than altcoin candlesticks. Before the 2024 election, Musk first made an epic flop during DeSantis' Twitter Spaces debut (comparable to an exchange crash), only to turn around and go all in on Trump. His money-sprinkling operation for swing state voters was like playing a blockchain game for gold—only the rewards transformed from NFTs to ballots.
The honeymoon period in politics was sweetly sickening. Trump specifically created a DOGE department for Musk (the name is very meme-worthy), while Musk brandished a red chainsaw at the CPAC conference performing "cutting government gas fees," portraying two extreme nodes mining in Washington DC. But the underlying protocol was already buried with a fatal bug: when Trump's trade war struck Tesla's China factory, and the $2.4 trillion deficit bill came crashing down like an endlessly issued stablecoin, their smart contract finally triggered liquidation.
The breakup scene was a textbook-level tearing apart. Trump complained, "I gave him whitelist privileges and he crashed the market," while Musk retorted, "Real MAGA should destroy inflation tokens." Once comrades who lifted each other up, they transformed into on-chain detectives exposing each other's dirty laundry. Those who celebrated on X as "MAGA maxi" (Trump's extreme fans) and "cyberpunks" (Musk's followers) suddenly realized their spiritual leaders were merely two whales mining in the power pool.
This billion-dollar plastic friendship is essentially the most biting satire of the American political ecosystem. When Musk said, "I want to return to Web3 to do serious business," and Trump cursed, "He doesn't understand POW (Proof of Work) at all," we finally saw clearly: no matter how glamorous the political-business alliance, it ultimately cannot escape the limitations of human computational power. Just like the old crypto investors often say—don't be fooled by how beautifully they write their white papers; in the end, they all want to cash out and run away.
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