Once again, the promises of Elon Musk They have remained in smoke. Less than a week after leaving his position in the government of Donald Trump and ensure that he would continue to be his “advisor and friend”, the technological tycoon has openly charged this Thursday against the president of USAcrossing out his megaproject of fiscal law of “disgusting abomination”, asking for his criminal imputation (impeachmentin English) and linking it with the pedophile sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
In a matter of limited minutes, the powerful alliance between the conservative leader and the richest man in the world, which allowed both of the presidential elections and mark the course of the White Househas implio in a burst of insults and accusations that suppose a schism in the depths of the extreme right United States. Although its consequences are completely unpredictable, this civil war Some victims are already being charged.
In full crossfire, Trump has threatened to withdraw all the subsidies and contracts that the Government has with the companies led by Musk. The Magnate Business Empire, headed by Tesla y SpaceXit depends largely on that public money. In total, their companies would have received at least 38,000 million dollars in government funds, according to a study by The Washington Post.
Coup to Tesla and Spacex
The most visibly affected by that possibility is Tesla, which at this time is suffering a hard bleeding in the stock market. The actions of the manufacturer of electric vehicles More than 14%have been devalued, red numbers equivalent to losses greater than 140,000 million dollars. So far this year, the value of Tesla has fallen almost 25%, a setback that is due to the fierce competition of the Chinese automotive sector, but also to the impact of the war of duty launched by Trump. “Trump tariffs will cause a recession In the second half of this year, “Musk said.
The threat also points directly to the Spacex Aerospace Company, responsible for the manufacture of many of the rockets and probes on which the space program of the NASA. His plans, and those of Musk, had already been reduced in recent weeks by Trump’s presidential action, which ordered 25% of the space agency budget and reduce its scientific financing by 47%, the lowest money allocation since 1961, Bloomberg reports.
Musk’s reaction has been to bend the bet. “Before the president’s statement about the cancellation of my government contracts, Spacex will begin to dismantle his Dragon spacecraft immediately,” he said. This type of reusable capsule, capable of taking up to seven passengers to space, was the one used in March to rescue two astronauts who had been trapped at the International Space Station. Without dragon, the New York Times warns, “NASA would be in an immediate emergency situation because it has no other alternatives available to transport astronauts, food or supplies to the space station.”
War on the right
However, the tectonic movement unleashed by conflict between the president of USA And the richest man on the planet can go beyond business and drag the alt-rightthe radical right of a new wedge, to a division whose outcome is unpredictable and that, to extend, could force many – among them, the technological entrepreneurs who have struck their hand to Trump – to choose a side.
For now, the battle between the faithful to Trumpism and the devotees of Musk is being fought on social networks as Truth Social o Xcontrolled by Trump and Musk respectively. The split could be irreconcilable. Musk has already launched a survey among its more than 220 million followers in which it proposes to create a new political party “that really represents 80% of the center.” At the time of publishing these lines, almost 88% of voters, more than 1.8 million people, opted for Si.
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