Is this an issue that voters care about at all? No.
Is this an issue that benefits Trump in some way? No.
Is this an issue that could turn off potential supporters? Yes.
Tell me why he's right to spend time on this? I know, getting into celebrity feuds is something he did before he was President so it's "on-brand" but Elon Musk is not Rosey O'Donnell.
Trump wasn’t spending much time on it. The issue was he said he doesn’t expect the deal with Twitter to go through. But if you look to the end of his comments, he said maybe it could still go through in some form but right now it’s a rotten deal. This is what everyone was saying.
Then Trump pointed out that he thought Musk was a BS artist because he said he voted for him and then told the media he voted Republican for the first time in Texas 2022.
Musk should have just let it roll off his back and gotten the Twitter deal done and said something like I may like Desantis but I’ll vote for you if Desantis doesn’t run, we want you back to Twitter, we are making changes.
But Musk couldn’t do that. He went on a unhinged rant against Trump on Monday.
But it is disengenous to say Trump started it. Trump was sparing a little. Musk turned it into a fued and made it personal with astroturfed claims about Trump’s age and how Trump is toxic and he should quit and how Desantis could win without evn campaigning. Musk is stupid in politics and should stick to what he knows.