On April 2, just 71 days into his second term, the US president told aides that South African-born Musk, who immigrated to America from Canada 33 years ago, would step back as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE within weeks and return to his businesses including his struggling listed flagship, Tesla.
Just days after Donald Trump began his second term as the US President, a friend reminded me of a Chinese proverb: “One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers.” My pal and I had been texting each other about billionaire Elon Musk, his electric vehicle (EV) firm Tesla and his outsized role in the Trump administration.
His take was that the budding bromance between the world’s most powerful man and the richest person on earth would eventually lead to an epic brawl. The way he saw it, the two powerful, impulsive, mercurial Alpha males who love attention just could not possibly coexist for too long. “Six months and he’ll be gone,” my friend texted.
