When you know a couple getting divorced, you might face a dilemma as to whose side to take. Such is not the case in the bitter public breakup between President Trump and Elon Musk. It is easy to say, “A plague on both your houses.”

The verbal fisticuffs between the world’s wealthiest and the most powerful social media moguls is amusing but delivers nothing of substance to the American people.

The brickbats flew when Musk called Trump’s “big beautiful” tax bill a “disgusting abomination,” urging Congress to “KILL the BILL.” Then Musk rhetorically polled his flock on X as to whether it was time to found a new political party representing the 80 percent of Americans “in the middle.”

Trump responded on his Truth Social that “Elon was ‘wearing thin’. I asked him to leave… and he just went CRAZY!” Trump in fact didn’t fire Musk — Musk termed out, reaching the maximum number of days he could serve as a “special government employee.”

Trump’s response was measured: “I don’t mind Elon turning against me, but he should have done so months ago. This is one of the greatest bills ever presented to Congress.”

The budget bill would, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, grow the debt by $2.4 trillion over the next decade. Despite Trump’s exaggerations, he cannot extend tax cuts and impose inflationary tariffs without causing slower growth and higher interest rates (in the process increasing the cost of debt service). There is also the clear and present danger that the escalating debt will trigger a cataclysmic financial crisis. And his beautiful bill leaves almost

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