Why it matters: Trump and Musk believe powerfully in maximalist action and language, carried out by strong (mostly) white men as blunt, uncompromising instruments to prove new limits both to power and what’s possible, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write in a “Behind the Curtain” column.
- “Fix Bayonets,” Steve Bannon, a first-term Trump official whose “War Room” podcast makes him one of the most widely followed outside MAGA voices, texted us. “We are ‘Burning Daylight’ — short window to get this done.”
Trump, first in business and then politics, and Musk, first in business and now politics, are feeding off each other’s natural instincts to do, say and operate by their own new rules.
