By now you’ve seen the best of the Trump Musk fight. I know I have. The folks at MSNBC and the Late Night TV hosts, (Meyers, Colbert, Kimmel & Fallon) have had a great time with the feud. My favorite is A Closer Look written by Sal Gentile and produced by Emily Erotas
One of my favorite tactics is the classic, “Let’s you and him fight!” This is an especially good time to use it, for the reason that David Schuster talks about on my friend Cliff Schecter’s YouTube channel Both Trump and Musk retaliate against anyone who comes after them.
Musk brings up Epstein to attack Trump? Cool. When you talk about it on social media, repeat the details mentioned in this video that have been vetted and ask for more from official sources. Also, you should totally subscribe to Cliff Schecter’s YouTube channel ,
if you are still there, post on X, “Musk raises an interesting question about Trump and Epstein. What’s the deal with…. “Hey, ELON MUSK brought this up, I’d like to know more!”
You could post on Truth Social, “Trump raises an interesting question about Musk, what’s the deal with…” “Hey, DONALD TRUMP brought this up, I’d like to know more!”
Then if you really want to push the story forward , talk about this on Mastodon and Bluesky, What I shared on on Mastodon and Bluesky was Marcy Wheeler talking to Nicole Sandler wondering why is Bill Balls still at DOGE and the national security risk of a drug addled Musk having this much power.
The point is that we have ways to give this story “legs” as they used to say in the news business.
Look for ways to make their feud hurt each other, using there own grievances and vindictiveness against each other.
For example, Trump brought up cancelling Musk’s contracts. Musk threated to decommission the Dragon spacecraft. BOOM. Use that.
My friend Fred had prepared for that by creating a petition at Change.org
“Nationalize SpaceX“
Sign it. WE have to do this. The media don’t see it as their job to take down Musk or Trump. But this talk of nationalizing SpaceX gives them the opportunity to talk again about the security threat that a drug addled Musk, whose company controls the launching of 2/3 of our satellites, poses to America.
You will notice how David Shuster discusses Epstein, he choses his words carefully. That’s because of how Trump attacks everyone and sues everyone. We need to be careful, but Musk doesn’t, Trump doesn’t. So use their attacks on each other to drive the stories we want.
The online feud between Elon Musk & Donald Trump impacts perceptions of the Jeffrey Epstein grand jury materials. We can help shape that narrative by talking, tooting, tweeting and skeeting about it. It’s part of how we do politics these days.
“They drew their swords and shot each other. The deaf policeman heard the noise and came and shot the two dead boys. If you don’t believe this story is true, ask the blind man, he saw it too.” -Rhyme I learned in Boy’s Life Magazine circa 1967.
I’m not in charge of media or social media strategy on the left, but if I was, I’d suggest that we learn to use the people we have, and to drive the feud where WE want it to go.
