Conspiracy World Thinks the Musk-Trump Breakup Is a 'Psyop'

The extremely public and increasingly unhinged breakup of Elon Musk and president Donald Trump has caused chaos in DC, forced Silicon Valley executives to pick a side, and wiped more than $150 billion off Tesla’s market cap. But in the conspiracy theory-addicted corners of the internet, the feud between Musk and Trump is nothing more than a fake, planned distraction. After Musk posted on X about Trump’s alleged relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire charged with sex trafficking of minors—“@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files,” Musk wrote.“That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”— conspiracy theorists were convinced this was all a plan to trick Democrats into calling for the Epstein files to be published. Rather than admit that two of their favorite people have fallen out and are making increasingly dire threats against each other, QAnon folks prefer to believe that this is all part of a scheme cooked up by the pair in recent ... Read full article.