well, i think tesla's fucked regardless. elon's turning on trump because his financial plan specifically targets electric vehicles and renewable energies, which elon built his whole image around. he's also deeply impulsive lol.
the main problem with the idea that they staged this is just that like, they are both doing massive damage to eachother. i think there's this kind of defeatist attitude that power is so entrenched and that there's nothing that can be done but like. the coalition behind trump has always been a deeply contradictory mess.
war mongering neocons, anti globalist isolationists, christian nationalists, right wing libertarians, rabid zionists, and a whole movement about making a corporate aristocracy