Who could have seen it coming? Surely two rich megalomaniacal narcissists should be able to get along if they have the same goal: make themselves richer at the expense of the rest of us.

Who am I kidding: we all saw it coming. What we didn’t anticipate was how fast everything would escalate. Trump remained uncharacteristically calm and approached the border of magnanimity at first, but then the cliche gloves came off:

• Trump threatened to kill Elon’s government contracts and subsidies.
• Elon brought up the Epstein files and claimed (probably accurately) that Trump is in them.
• MAGA diehard Bannon called for Elon to be deported and for the government to seize Space X
• Elon retweeted a call for Trump to be impeached.

All this within a few hours.

There’s a part of me that’s absolutely gleeful about this. But most of me finds this just as horrifying as everything else Trump does. Think of what Putin and Xi are saying about this. Sure, Putin lost a lot of bombers this week, but he’s looking at the long game, and a civil war within the MAGA party that could further destablize America — what a gift for him.