Analysis: Elon Musk and Donald Trump, 2 disrupters face reckoning
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Analysis: Elon Musk and Donald Trump, 2 disrupters face reckoning

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump share bestride-the-colossus egos, an incessant desire to be the centre of attention and a platform to showcase their eccentricities and erraticism. "Given their life experiences, how could these guys not feel invincible?” Kindred spirits at least in part, Musk invited Trump back on Twitter shortly after he bought it. Musk's invitation was a selective exercise of the right to free speech, as he also suspended a variety of mainstream journalists from Twitter and banned links to “prohibited” social media sites like Facebook, before relenting to some degree on both fronts. But Musk has also built viable companies and genuine wealth, in contrast with Trump's record of self-branding, fraught real estate deals and dubious enterprises regarding steaks, vodka or even his own real estate investor “university.” Musk registers 120 million Twitter followers; Trump, a Republican, had 88 million when he was barred from the platform after the January 6 insurrection. “It's great.” On that platform, Musk comes across less as the visionary engineer who made electric vehicles hot, builds reusable rockets and cares deeply about climate change than as a petty settler of personal scores who can sink into right-wing conspiracy theories and misogyny.

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