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There’s nothing more entertaining than watching multi-billionaires having a social-media slapfight, am I right? It’s too bad that Elon Musk wants out of his Twitter deal, because the platform war between a Musk-led Twitter and Donald Trump’s Truth Social would have been spectacular.
Trump ripped Musk over the weekend for allegedly sucking up by privately claiming to have supported Trump in 2020, after which Musk declared that he’d never voted for a Republican this year. “So he’s another bull**** artist!” Trump declared, and, um … he should know. Musk responded overnight in tweets that never quite add up to a denial (via Twitchy):
As slapfights go, this is pretty weak sauce. Where’s the punchy insult, the mockery, the gleeful jab? When it comes to trolling, Trump is clearly the winner here. Although in politics, especially these days, being called a “bull**** artist” isn’t an insult, it’s a qualification — as Trump and Joe Biden know all too well.
However, when it comes to an actual argument, Musk may come out on top:
Those are two of the main three arguments Trump will have to answer if he launches a run at the GOP presidential nomination. Drama can be useful, but it requires a deft and disciplined touch to keep it from destroying your own edifices. Trump used drama effectively until the pandemic, when he failed to realize that the American public wanted calm and cool leadership in a real crisis. That exposed his lack of discipline and political foresight and cost him the election to the barely-moving Biden. It then got exponentially worse when Trump tried to use chaos and drama to force states to reconsider their election results. The resulting riot on January 6 shows the danger of undisciplined drama and chaos.
Second is Trump’s age, and there’s no getting around that. It’s true that Trump is far more energetic and vital than Joe Biden, but that’s a very low bar, too. Trump will turn 78 in 2024, and the risks of age-related infirmities increase by the day. Why put the Oval Office at risk in that manner, especially when other alternatives are at hand, such as Musk’s suggestion of Ron DeSantis? Especially when Trump carries enough baggage from the past six years that could easily be avoided with a fresh-start candidate?
Combine up the aging risk with Trump’s already-poor discipline and chaos, and it doesn’t paint a pretty picture for Republicans in 2024 and beyond…
