A Trump-Musk Feud That’s Ripe for the Meme-ing

The article argues that memes mocking the Trump-Musk feud ridicule the fragile egos of powerful men, but often lean on homophobic and misogynistic tropes. It says the feud began after Trump withdrew his pick to run NASA, Jared Isaacman, a close associate of Musk, and Musk criticized Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" as "pork-filled." On June 5, Musk alleged on X that Trump appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein files, and the viral content that followed likened the conflict to a feminine rivalry, invoking the "burn book" from Mean Girls (2004).