The Washington Roundtable discusses the fallout from the messy rupture between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, how battles between maximalist rulers and the mega-wealthy have unfolded in history, and how this week’s fighting could portend a new, more combative phase of American oligarchy. They talk about America’s new Gilded Age, drawing on “The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich,” a new book by Evan Osnos, just out this week.
This week’s reading:
- “The Musk-Trump Divorce Is as Messy as You Thought It Would Be,” by Susan B. Glasser
- “Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder,” by Evan Osnos
- “The Sublime Spectacle of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Social-Media Slap Fight,” by Jessica Winter
- “The Private Citizens Who Want to Help Trump Deport Migrants,” by Jessica Pishko
- “Can Public Media Survive Trump?,” by Jon Allsop
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