How much is it worth to have oligarchic control of the U.S. government? Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s alliance with Donald Trump exploded in public view, and what happened to his stock? It fell 14 percent , or 14 percent of Tesla 's value, after the election.

David Gergen : We now have a ballparked answer: a bit more than $100 billion , or $892 billion .

Trump mused Thursday about ending Musk 's contracts and cost SpaceX at least several billion dollars a year.

Some speculated that Musk and Trump weren’t really falling out, but just trying to give Musk some space from the political heat that has harmed his businesses.

But it’s doubtful that Musk is playing games either. Musk is a wildly rich conservative who does not understand the American legislative process and likes a chance to rail against “pork” Musk had already made himself polarizing in business, but polarizing is not necessarily bad.