President Donald Trump’s word war and Elon Musk has left Washington analyzing how quickly his relationship once close and implications deteriorated.
But users of social networks around the world took out their corn popcorn, went into mass to their devices and intervened while the dispute was developed on social networks.
From the supporters of Musk and Trump encouraging each of them, and others tell them to cool things, to the memes of other Internet users who know in the round trip, platforms such as X, Truth Social and Bluesky have allowed the public to see that everything develops and weighs in real time.
“They see this as a cat fight,” Jennifer Grygiel, an associated communications professor at Syracuse University, told ABC News. “The only reason people are tune in is because we are seeing mutual destruction.”
Grygiel said that, although part of the commitment of social networks could be very fun and games, he does speak of a broader problem about the dissatisfaction of the public with the current state of politics and civic commitment. More important, the teacher pointed out that he distracts political problems and bigger debates.
As soon as Musk and Trump’s publications fell on Thursday afternoon, social networks users began to be published.
“This is like Drake and Kendrick Lamar, but both are Drake,” Anna Hughes, a Canadian ocean conservation researcher In a viral post of Bluesky.
A famous Trump and Musk support urged them to stop.
“Please noooooo 🫂 we love them both,” they published the rapper they published in X.
Others began to make memes, some of which used images generated by AI, Trump and Musk Fighting or appeared as a couple that breaks.
“Let me organize the meeting!” The presenter of a night interview program Andy Cohen published in X.
The X logo is shown on a laptop on February 10, 2025 in Barcelona, ​​Spain.
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On the serious side, the Republicans in La Colina, including the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, and Vice President JD Vance, present statements on X defending the president and the bill of expenses.
“There are many lies that the corporate media talk about President Trump. One of the most obvious is that it is impulsive or of bad temper. Anyone who has seen it operate under pressure knows that it is ridiculous,” Vance published.
Conservative commentator Jack Posobiec said in an X post that the round trip couple was disproportionate.
“Some of you cannot handle 2 high agency men who do it and it really shows,” he said.
Some Democrats turned to social networks to gloat.
“Siri, playing ‘Bad Blood'”, the leader of the majority of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, published in Bluesky on Thursday night, referring to Taylor Swift’s song about a relationship on the rocks.
The online peanut gallery was not limited to US spectators.
Dmitri Medvedev, former Russian president and Russian prime minister, turned to X at dawn on Friday with a georpolitical dose of sarcasm.
“We are ready to facilitate the conclusion of a peace agreement between D and E for a reasonable rate and accept Starlink’s actions as payment. Do not fight, boys,” he said.
Grygiel said Trump and Musk knew that they would arouse their political bases and the general public by taking their disputes to their respective social media platforms, comparing it to how the owners of media magnates used the magazines and the newspaper they owned in the early twentieth century.
“It is almost as if all these social media platforms were sports teams, with their own personalities,” they said. “If something, both men obviously know the importance of adjusting public opinion.”
Grant Reeher, professor of political science at the University of Syracuse, told ABC News that the use of Musk and Trump’s social networks has encouraged this political commitment for years.
“I think it is very emblematic of the entire process of many great changes in political communication and campaign rhetoric.
Grygiel, however, said that the publications and comments of some social media users show the greatest distrust and frustration of the public with their elected leaders.
In this illustration of photos, the publications on the social networks of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are shown on smartphones.
Yassine Mahjoub/SIPA through Shuttersock
“The jokes talk about a lack of disconnection and how we feel that this is ridiculous,” they said.
Grygiel, however, warned that the commitment to the dispute is generally harmful to the general public as other pressing issues, including Trump’s budget cuts, which trigger the dispute in the first place.
Connecticut’s Democratic senator Chris Murphy echoed this feeling in a Bluesky Post Bluesky on Thursday.
“When 15 million Americans lose their medical attention and immerse themselves in a personal crisis, none of them will give a S — on a Twitter fight made for clicking between two billionaires they argue,” he said.
