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The Oval Office Will Soon Host the Odd Couple on Steroids
But it isn’t big enough to house the egos of Trump and Musk
It’s been just a little over a century since actor Nick Grindell uttered the now ubiquitous cliché, “This town ain’t big enough for the both of us and I’m giving you 24 hours to get out,” in the 1932 movie The Western Code. But my prediction for 2025 is that we’re going to hear it echo once again from the White House as America’s favorite Odd Couple become office mates in the Oval Office.
There’s simply no way that the White House is big enough to house both the ego of Elon Musk and the mania of Donald Trump. The new President has not even taken office, and already he’s had to tell his supporters that “Elon Musk is not going to be president, that I can tell you — I’m safe. You know why? Because he can’t be. He wasn’t born in this country.”
And, by the way, neither was First Lady Melania Trump. For some reason, Mr. Trump has a fixation on immigrants, but I digress.
As the year unfolds, I can’t imagine that Trump and Musk are going to be able to avoid clashing in a spectacle not seen since English poet Byron’s mistress burned him in effigy in the village square for his infidelity.
