Donald Trump, in his trademark blue suit and red tie, strides across the frame in broad daylight, while Musk, in a black cap and T-shirt, cuts a gleefully diabolical figure.
Whatever archetype actually describes Musk’s relationship to Trump — minion, sidekick, wartime consigliere, “first buddy” — there is no question that he radiates supervillain energy.
In his own way, Trump does too.
To observe that Trump’s opponents and Musk’s critics see them as villains would hardly count as much of an insight.
Up there, where the snowpack of collective dreaming melts into the watersheds of commercial storytelling, the villains have been in the ascendant for quite a while.
Persons:
Elon Musk, MAGA, ”, Donald Trump, Trump, “, Steve Bannon, Andrew Breitbart