Regarding the difference between government and business...
It appears to me that Elon runs a business through people
who are smart and know what they're doing, while he just
provides the money and the name.
Trump, of course, always runs a business into the ground,
and manages to use the courts to get out from under.
This all might work for awhile on a personal level, and even
on a business level with very smart people.
However... look at the people they're surrounding themselves
with. They are all crazy as loons and totally incompetent.
Remember, talk is cheap with Trump, and it looks to me as
though Elon is backing an old demented nag whose snaggletoothed
days are coming to an end.
The sad part, or course, is that many many people will suffer, including
those at the top and bottom.
But I just don't see it lasting very long when all the catastrophes come
raining down, and believe me, they will.
How it all ends, I have no idea, but it won't mean much in the way of
accomplishment and achievement when you're sitting at the bottom
of the clusterfuck you've created.
Oughta be interesting, at least, if not so totally tragic.