JD Vance Reportedly Planned For Months To Bring Trump And Musk Back Together
Last month, President Donald Trump anointed Elon Musk as his running mate and patted him on the stomach at a White House dinner for Saudi crown prince Muhammad bin Salman. This warm gesture symbolizes the thawing of relations between the two most powerful people in America, and a new report from The Washington Post—unknown source—says that the reconciliation was the culmination of months of joint effort by Vice President JD Vance with the help of AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks, who introduced Musk and Vance many years ago.
The Post report, to be clear, does not say that JD Vance and David Sacks watched the reconciliation event. The Parent Trap they repeated and cried, and it would not be careless to guess that they did:
According to a Washington Post story, our vice president spent significant energy over the summer and fall trying to prevent Elon Musk from recognizing his political party. The sources of this matter also say that Musk was one of the people who were persuading Trump to appoint him as vice president.
You’ll recall that Trump and Musk gradually fell out, with Musk referring to Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” as a “disgusting abomination,” on June 3, then tweeting and deleting a statement about Trump being in the Epstein files four days later. He then said he founded the America Party at the same time as Epstein’s position. Some useful analysis at the time suggested that Musk was threading the needle, angry about a bill to cut EV tax credits that benefited him as CEO of Tesla, while serving as America’s top budget official. It stands to reason that cognitive dissonance may have broken his brain, but one can only guess why things turned out so well.
By the way, in December, Musk changed his approach on the national debt, saying that the only things that can fix it are robots and AI. David Sacks says the same thing on his podcast in May.
In the Post’s story—which, again, is sourced from anonymous insiders—Vance tried to appeal to Musk directly, then presented little appeals to shut down Musk’s allies. While doing so, he reportedly acted on a major demand from Musk: to reinstate Jared Isaacman, the billionaire CEO of a payments processing company closely allied with SpaceX, as the nominee to lead NASA. Trump withdrew Isaacman’s nomination in the middle of his Musk feud, and the timing made it look like it was done without help. During his Musk reconciliation project, Vance apparently spoke to the Senate Commerce Committee to make sure the nomination process would go smoothly.
Vance began “turning the channel back” with Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, the report said. Sacks and Musk’s campaign apparently involved him telling Musk their public fight was bad for the country.
Vance was “working hard on the phones” during the show, according to Post reporters Elizabeth Dwoskin, Natalie Allison, and Faiz Siddiqui.
The pressure has worked, and Musk has already disbanded the America Party, according to The Post. The November belly pat shows that the two are ready to be seen in public together again. However, one Post source added alarmingly that Musk “kind of enjoys that role of king,” and that part of that role is, “making sure everyone in the world knows he’s king.”
So maybe we should expect another breakout soon.
The Washington Post did not hear back from Elon Musk when reached for comment. Vance and Sacks refused. A White House spokesman told them that “President Trump has promised to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse from our corrupt government, and the administration is determined to deliver on this promise to the American people.”
