The biggest breakup in recent political history — between the world’s most powerful man and the world’s richest person — moved at hyper speed, with new threats and gut punches piling up by the minute. The fight touched on all manner of topics including tariffs, Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” and its slashing of EV mandates, Elon Musk’s government contracts and subsidies, a push for impeachment and even the formation of a third political party.
But missing from the feud and the media reaction was any sense of the massive impact Trump and Musk have had on the lives of millions of people here and abroad.
