Russell Jones's Week Moment: X Bros, The Frog and the Lettuce
Just when Russell Jones thought it was going to be a quiet week, the agents of chaos broke loose on both sides of the pond
Events are moving fast, but here's what we know at the time of writing.
President Trump has fallen out with his X, and X has fallen out with President Trump, or at least the bots most loyal to Elon Musk have. And what’s not to love? Here’s a man who slashed $125 billion off the value of Tesla in just 24-hours — five times what he managed to slash from the US budget, (balanced against what it cost taxpayers) and in less than one hundredth of the time. Somewhere there’s a Nobel Prize for that. Possibly in Economics. Possibly in Experimental Theatre.
In mortal terror that nobody would talk about him for two consecutive minutes, Musk then opened a fresh round of conspiracy bingo. We’ve all heard the persistent rumours that Trump had once been the grateful recipient of erotic micturition, hand crafted to his exacting standards by Putin’s elite kompromat team. Now Musk is claiming Trump features in the Epstein Files too.
It’s Alien vs Predator, if both villains had their own social media platforms.
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