Elon Musk exploded like a SpaceX rocket. The debris rained down across Washington.

Everyone has been awaiting the breakup of the most public bromance between the most powerful man in the world and the richest man in the world.

Too much power. Too much ego.Credit: AP

What could go wrong? Too much power and too much ego. President Donald Trump has exerted executive authority to rule by command. And no one has seen anything like Musk’s wealth. Will Musk become the world’s first trillionaire – before any landing on Mars? What he gave to Trump’s campaign was obscene, over $US230 million ($353 million) – more than enough to help Trump finance winning a second term.

Trump is cunning as hell. He had his blueprint for what he would do from the moment he was inaugurated president to dominate and control the executive branch of the government: Project 2025. As Carlos Lozada wrote, what is so compelling is “how far the authors are willing to go in pursuit of that agenda and how reckless their assumptions are about law, power and public service”.

Cabinet secretaries and senior officials were to march into their departments and ensure that all the woke culture values of the radical left extremist Marxist monsters were eradicated. Anything having to do with promoting women and people of colour was suspect. Anything honoured in historical reference – such as Black soldiers and airmen who were heroes in World War II – was to be expunged. Anything trans was to be exterminated. The........

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