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The Dangerous Dance: Why Musk and Trump Might Still Join Forces

The Dangerous Dance: Why Musk and Trump Might Still Join Forces

Even as they clash publicly, Musk and Trump continue to quietly benefit from each other’s power, platforms, and cultural reach

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What Happens If Musk and Trump Join Forces?

The Jack Hopkins Now Newsletter #409

For years, people assumed Musk and Trump would either fight to the death or avoid each other entirely. But now in July 2025, that illusion is breaking.

Musk has just detonated a political bomb: he’s launching his own party. He’s openly furious about Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, a compromise that undercut the very libertarian, anti-establishment base Musk has been cultivating.

Trump’s camp is reportedly seething that Musk might fracture the right and siphon energy away from Trump’s planned re-election dominance.

So, game over, right? Wrong. Because history says that when survival is on the line… people like Musk and Trump don’t stay enemies—they form cold…tactical alliances.

Part I: How a Musk-Trump Alliance Could Still Materialize

Musk is smart enough to know that launching a third party is a high-risk…low-reward gambit—unless he builds bridges back to Trump’s base.

Trump, for all his bluster…can’t afford to ignore Musk’s cultural choke points: X, Tesla’s working-class fan base…the swelling libertarian-tech coalition that now rallies behind Musk’s "anti-establishment" party.

Despite the public fury…they both know something:

They can still use each other.

Musk controls the distribution pipes. Trump controls the emotional base.

They can rage in public and still quietly support each other’s power structures.

Musk can still shape the narrative on X to amplify Trump’s messaging when it serves him. Trump can still activate his army to defend Musk’s ventures when regulators close in.

This wouldn’t be a friendship. It would be a grudging survival pact.

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