DONALD TRUMP versus Elon Musk pitches the world’s most powerful man against one of the richest.
Two big beasts kicking lumps out of each other. How can it be anything less than the greatest show on Earth?
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This is Godzilla v Kong, a Rumble in the Washington Jungle, the Thriller in the Twittersphere.
Did any bromance in history ever go so sour so quickly?
In comparison to Trump and Musk’s furious feud, Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings look like Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson sadly going their civilised separate ways.
There is no spat more toxic, spiteful and below-the-belt than the row that is conducted online.
And the war of words between the POTUS and the wild-eyed titan of Tesla went thermo-nuclear on X, formerly known as Twitter, the digital soap box owned by Mr Musk himself.
“Time to drop a really big bomb,” Elon jeered on X, before accusing Trump of being in files related to the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
“That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”
That’s when the gloves came off. That’s when the trembling finger pressed down hard on the red doomsday button.
That’s when it got really nasty.
Trump was famously friendly with fellow Big Apple big shot Epstein, but the Orange King has largely remained untouched by that particular scandal until now — unlike, say, the royal prince formerly known as Randy Andy.
But Elon Musk has gleefully pulled open a can of very nasty worms.
And the watching world can only gawp at the spectacle and wonder how Mr President will retaliate. Because — like Godzilla taking one in the cakehole from King Kong — you know that retaliation is a stone-cold certainty.
The falling out between Trump and Musk was meant to be about policy — about differences of opinion over Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” which, Elon believes, will massively increase US debt.
By bringing the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein on stage, Musk has brazenly chosen to make it about other things. Whatever next?
Perhaps we will learn the truth about the black eye that Musk was sporting when he bid an emotional formal farewell to Trump in the White House.
Elon’s shiner was meant to come from some horseplay with his five-year-old son, X. Really? The five-year-old Mike Tyson could not give you a black eye like that.
‘Time to drop a really big bomb’
Come on, Mr President — tell us what really happened.
Like Japan at Pearl Harbor, Elon Musk has started a war that he can never win.
For all the racy revelations that the eccentric electric car maker has up his sleeve, Donald Trump has the power to make his life very difficult indeed.
And you just know that he will.
Roll up, roll up to see these two gigantic egos rolling around in the digital gutter. The man with all the power v the man with all the money.
Although — guessing here — I have a hunch that the maker of the electric vehicle which has been branded the Swasticar is about to get poorer every day.
Trump, that Tango-tinted tease, is now openly musing “the easiest way to save money is to terminate Elon’s governmental subsidies and contracts”.
Who knows what damage will be done to the orange Godzilla and the plug-in King Kong? Perhaps we should be terrified. But are we not entertained?
PRESIDENT Trump has repeatedly said that Ukraine “holds no cards” in its war for freedom against Russia.
But last Sunday, Ukraine launched a stunning drone operation at multiple airfields deep inside Russia, destroying dozens of heavy bombers.
Here are cards Ukraine holds, Mr President.
Bravery. Ingenuity. Courage. Audacity.
And the fact that Ukraine is fighting for its survival.
Ukraine is mass-producing vast numbers of cheap drones — 150 drones that cost just $4,000 each destroyed Russian aircraft valued at $7billion.
With the death toll of Russian forces expected to pass the one million mark during its summer offensive, Trump should ask what leverage his pal Putin holds, beyond the willingness to sacrifice any number of Russian lives in his meat grinder.
Ukraine has freedom on its side.
That will always be the greatest motivation of all.
Ballerina reviews are a World Of pain for Ana
HOLLYWOOD does not know what to do with Ana de Armas.
She dazzles as a supporting actress – as a sexbot in Blade Runner 2049, as a good-hearted home help in Knives Out, as the ultimate Bond girl in No Time To Die – but is less than impressive when she is carrying a film.
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The reviews for Ana’s From The World Of John Wick: Ballerina are shockingly bad.
“I would watch Ana open a crisp packet,” posts one defiant fan.
Me too. But it would probably be more fun than Ana’s latest turkey.
PRIDE IN OUR DAVID
DAVID BECKHAM has been our national game’s greatest ambassador since Bobby Moore.
If you feel that you have watched Becks grow up, you have.
Beckham, who is now to be knighted, has a showreel in our national consciousness.
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The floppy-haired kid from Chingford scoring for Manchester United against Wimbledon from the halfway line in 1996.
The England player who – blond locks flying with youthful petulance – became a national pariah after getting sent off against Argentina in 1998.
And then, that handsome head-shaved man, single-handedly dragging his country into the 2002 World Cup with a laser-guided free kick against Greece.
Beckham in the white of Madrid, the black-and-red stripes of AC Milan, the blue of Paris Saint-Germain.
Beckham . . . always working harder than anyone else. A credit to England, his sport and Chingford.
His knighthood is totally deserved, and it will be a source of pride and joy after all the recent headlines about the kind of rifts that happen in the best of families.
The family feuds will fade away.
The memories of the football will endure for ever.
NATION TIRED
LABOUR came to power with just 33.7 per cent of the vote, the lowest share of any party forming a post-war majority government.
Meaning despite their landslide, most of us didn’t vote for Labour.
It has always been very presumptuous for Starmer and other comrades to deliver their dreary sermons with rows of manufacturing workers as extras.
And when Chancellor Rachel Reeves visited the Mellor Bus factory in Rochdale, speaking about the mess left by the Tories, one young worker appeared to be dying of boredom.
As the hour-long speech dragged on, he looked like he wanted to simply go back to work. And without saying a word, that man spoke for the nation.
IT is a shock to learn that Morten Harket, the lead singer of A-ha, has Parkinson’s disease at the age of 65.
The announcement was made on the band’s official website with grace, calm and dignity.
GettyMorten Harket, the lead singer of A-ha, has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the age of 65[/caption]
A model of quiet optimism, and a man totally lacking in self-pity, Morten will be an inspiration to many who suffer – or watch their loved ones suffer – from this cruel disease.
“Don’t worry about me,” he smiles.
Ah, but we will, Morten.
COPS, STICK TO JOB
AHEAD of next week’s government spending review, the country’s senior policemen darkly warn Sir Keir Starmer that their forces will face “stark choices” about what crimes they investigate if the Treasury pushes ahead with spending cuts.
Oh no! Do these top cops mean that they are going to have to cut back on the millions the police currently blow on woke diversity schemes?
Er, no. They are threatening to cut back frontline policing.
You know, actually catching bad people.
Cue mocking laughter from the British people.
Because there are already multiple crimes – shoplifting, phone theft, burglary – that the police have effectively given up on.
I am all for giving the police the funding they need to do the job of protecting us.
But the law needs to start focusing on the crimes that matter.
Burglaries, not tweets. Muggings, not social media rants.
Evil, violent people robbing in the real world – not keyboard warriors in digital Dodge City.
More catching bad guys. Less virtue signalling.
When will these cretinous Chief Constables ever learn?
Get our cops back on the streets. Because policing can’t be done online.
TWO Love Island hunks have been questioned by police – one for the theft of a mobile phone, the other for a machete attack – but both were released with no further action taken.
Which is a relief.
I was starting to worry the new Love Island series might be held on Alcatraz.
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