I don’t think he can afford to fall out with Trump. Every company he has is exposed to multiple serious regulatory questions, he has personally made serious fal

I don’t think he can afford to fall out with Trump. Every company he has is exposed to multiple serious regulatory questions, he has personally made serious false claims to investors (e.g. FSD), the DOGE stuff exceeds his authority as a SGE so he’s dependent on Trump saying he had approval, and if they wanted to give him the same treatment Trump has promised activists they could even try to revoke his citizenship on the grounds that he’d violated his earlier student visa by working. I don’t know that Musk fully recognizes this. Trump was addicted to X but he doesn’t need it to get elected any more and has been boosting Truth Social enough that I don’t think it has the same hold it once did. Similarly, while he has put a lot of money into elections it’s not clear that this will work for crossing Trump if the FEC, SEC, and DOJ are a lot less concerned with scrupulously appearing non-partisan, and nobody else in Republican politics is going to thank him for making them less powerful.