It was less than three months ago that Donald Trump said he would “take a look” at deporting Elon Musk after his former bosom buddy claimed Trump would have lost the 2024 election without him and that the real reason the president wasn’t releasing the Epstein files was that he was in them. But at the memorial for the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk last weekend, it was as if their very public bust-up had never happened: the two men sat next to each other for a while chatting, smiling, and shaking hands, with the US president even giving the world’s richest man a couple of fatherly pats on the knee and thigh.
不到三個月前，唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)還表示會“考慮”把埃隆?馬斯克(Elon Musk)驅逐出境——此前這位昔日密友聲稱，沒有他特朗普就會在2024年大選中落敗，而且總統遲遲不公布愛潑斯坦檔案的真正原因是他本人牽涉其中。但在上周末為右翼活動人士查理?柯克(Charlie Kirk)舉行的追悼會上，場面仿佛他們那場公開決裂從未發生：兩人并肩而坐，一度交談、微笑、握手，這位美國總統甚至還像長輩一樣拍了拍這位全球首富的膝蓋和大腿。