今天早上看到了一个重大新闻：一个是中美元首终于通了电话，这是在新一轮贸易战打响以来，双方都在等待着这一事件的进展的重要时刻。这个电话应该说给市场吃了定心丸，中美之间的贸易战至少不会再继续升级。
第二件事情就是马斯克和特朗普公开翻脸了。其实这一点都不意外，因为在很多天之前，马斯克就多次表达过对效率工作的疲惫和不满。他流露出了退出的意图。
几天之前，特朗普和马斯克两人公开在媒体面前举行了一个告别仪式。双方都说了些互相恭维的话，特朗普送给了马斯克一个可能不值100美元的白宫纪念品钥匙，说马斯克随时都会回到白宫来。从视频上看，两人的态度都相当的敷衍，完全没有大选刚获胜时那种亲热。
而且眼尖的网友还发现，在那幅画面上，马斯克的一个眼圈红肿，似乎是挨过一拳。当时的解释是被他的小儿子打的，但是一个几岁的婴儿真的有这么大的力道，可以把一个成年人的眼睛都打肿吗？还是在马斯克退出这件事之前，他与特朗普的班底成员发生过激烈的争执。
在马斯克正式宣布退出特朗普政府之后，他就在推特上化身攻击者了，不再是一副以前无条件拥护特朗普的MAGA粉丝的形象。当然他也没有直接攻击特朗普和他的政府，他的主要攻击对象就是国会不久前刚刚通过的一份被川普吹捧为又大又美的财政预算案。
这份财政预算案除了象征性的做出了几个对富人有利的减税政策、取消了一些原本提供给普通阶层的福利政策外，其余的就是进一步加大了政府的财政支出。当然，靠着民粹主义上台的川普自然不会这么早就去得罪支持他的底层民众，那些削减福利的政策都推迟到在他卸任之后才实施。
而这种不顾美国政府、联邦政府债务爆炸的现实，还进一步扩大财政支出的做法似乎让马斯克破防了，而且他还说出了一些实在难以启齿的真相。马斯克刚刚上任政府效率部的时候，曾经雄心勃勃，也要节省下2万亿美元的财政支出。他把美国政府当成了是他自己的私营企业，都由他自己说了算的。结果后来面临重重阻力，将这一目标减少到了1000亿至1万亿美元。
这次他从效率部卸任之后，他承认，尽管抵住了各种压力和威胁，效率部也仅仅减少了1000亿美元的财政支出。而且就这样，他还成为了所有问题的替罪羊。
说实在的，马斯克作为硅谷的财富精英，又是科技大佬，人不可谓不聪明，知识也不可谓不丰富，但是确实缺少了像中国这么悠久的历史底蕴。政府里的官员整天围绕着权力，相互倾轧，其手段的卑劣程度远超商业竞争中的商战手段。
其实马斯克如今这个下场，其实在国人看来，早在他上任之初都是意料之中的事情。
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This morning, I saw a major piece of news: One is that the heads of state of China and the United States finally had a phone call. This is an important moment when both sides have been waiting for the progress of this event since the new round of trade war broke out. This phone call should be said to have reassured the market that the trade war between China and the United States will at least not continue to escalate.
The second thing is that Musk and Trump publicly fell out. In fact, this is not at all surprising, because many days ago, Musk had repeatedly expressed his fatigue and dissatisfaction with efficient work. He showed his intention to withdraw.
A few days ago, Trump and Musk publicly held a farewell ceremony in front of the media. Both sides said some compliments to each other. Trump gave Musk a key to a White House souvenir that might not be worth $100, saying that Musk would return to the White House at any time. Judging from the video, both of them were rather perfunctory in their attitudes, showing no sign of the kind of intimacy they had when they first won the election.
Moreover, sharp-eyed netizens also noticed that in that picture, one of Musk's eye circles was red and swollen, as if he had been punched. The explanation at that time was that he was beaten by his youngest son. But could a baby of just a few years old really have such great force to swell an adult's eyes? Before Musk withdrew from this matter, he had a fierce dispute with the members of Trump's team.
After Musk officially announced his withdrawal from the Trump administration, he transformed into an attacker on Twitter, no longer presenting the image of a MAGA fan who used to unconditionally support Trump. Of course, he did not directly attack Trump and his administration. His main target of attack was a fiscal budget bill that Congress passed not long ago and was touted by Trump as being both grand and beautiful.
This fiscal budget proposal, apart from symbolically introducing several tax reduction policies beneficial to the rich and cancelling some welfare policies originally provided to the ordinary class, the rest is a further increase in the government's fiscal expenditure. Of course, Trump, who came to power through populism, naturally would not offend the lower-class people who support him so early. Those policies that cut welfare were all postponed until after he left office.
This approach of disregarding the reality of the debt explosion of the US and federal governments and further expanding fiscal spending seems to have broken Musk's guard, and he has also revealed some truths that are really hard to bring up. When Musk first took office as the government's efficiency department, he was ambitious and also aimed to save $2 trillion in fiscal expenditure. He regarded the US government as his own private enterprise and had all the decisions made by himself. As a result, it later faced numerous obstacles and reduced this target to between 100 billion and 1 trillion US dollars.
After stepping down from the Efficiency Department this time, he admitted that despite withstanding various pressures and threats, the Efficiency department only reduced its financial expenditure by 100 billion US dollars. And just like this, he even became the scapegoat for all the problems.
To be honest, as a wealthy elite in Silicon Valley and a tech tycoon, Musk is not lacking in intelligence and knowledge. However, he does lack the profound historical heritage of China. Officials in the government are constantly bickering with each other over power, and the baseness of their methods far exceeds the commercial warfare tactics in business competition.
In fact, in the eyes of Chinese people, Musk's current fate was expected even at the beginning of his tenure.