A political chamber play in five acts - written not in ink, but in steel.
There are days when you no longer wonder who is actually governing - but rather who is playing with whom. Not with power, but with vanity. Not with responsibility, but with resentment. Elon Musk has unfollowed Stephen Miller on X. In normal times, this would be at most a minor footnote from the gossip engine room. But in the present of a Trump administration that keeps tipping into the tabloid like a badly written novel, it is a political symptom. And a signal. Because this is not just any unfollow. It is the end of an alliance - and the beginning of a humiliation. The richest man in the world not only strips the chief ideologue of white nationalism of the social seal of proximity - he also, by all accounts, takes his wife. Katie Miller, longtime spokeswoman of the Trump administration, most recently active in the notorious DOGE ministry for “government efficiency,” is leaving the White House to work directly for Elon Musk. In a senior role. Including control over external communications for Tesla, SpaceX - and reportedly, also over Musk’s personal messaging.
Miller, the man who once separated families at the border, now has a political family problem of his own. Because even though he still follows Musk on X - Musk no longer follows back. And that in an administration where loyalty matters more than law, and visibility counts more than substance.
“I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it,” Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social - referring to cutting all government contracts with Musk. Billions and billions that SpaceX receives for NASA projects. A president who grants and withdraws his favor like game tokens in a kids’ casino. The sentence felt like an eruption - Tesla’s stock lost over 14 percent of its value within hours. 150 billion dollars vanished in smoke. No scandal, no recall, no economic crash - just a president taking revenge.
And Musk? He called Trump’s budget bill simply a “disgusting monstrosity.” A piece of legislation as big as the egos of its authors - and just as empty. In that reply, everything was contained - rupture, fury, loss of power. That Musk thereby put himself in the crosshairs seems irrelevant to him. Or it’s a sign of a new self-understanding: “I owe nothing to anyone” - something like that could describe his current stance.
On social networks, the drama continues - and deepens. Because the Katie Miller personnel story is not just a career move, but part of a growing narrative that now silences even conspiracy theorists. On Telegram, X and Reddit, rumors circulate about a “throuple” relationship - Elon Musk, Stephen Miller, Katie Miller. A triangle of power, intimacy, jealousy. None of it is confirmed, much of it grotesque. But in a political reality where Steve Bannon once entered the White House like a shaman of chaos, even that no longer seems far-fetched.
The silence of those involved sounds louder than any denial. Neither Musk nor the Millers have commented on the speculation. Perhaps because they don’t have to. Perhaps because the scandal has long since found its own dramaturgy. And because in this administration, it’s not the denial that counts - but the meme.
Stephen Miller has not only lost a wife with Katie Miller, but a symbol. Because she was not just any spokeswoman - she embodied a core of Trumpism: disciplined, ideologically rigid, ruthless in rhetoric. When someone like her leaves the White House to work for a man who publicly attacks the administration, it’s more than a professional switch. It’s a message.
And Trump? He suddenly seems more like a spectator in his own cabinet. His response - cutting contracts with Musk - does not resemble strategic calculus, but wounded vanity. As if someone had messed with his playroom. As if it weren’t about billions, but about possession. About dominance. About a lost competition between men whose egos are bigger than their political visions.
What remains?
A president who wields power like a sulking child.
A billionaire freeing himself from the web of his own loyalties.
An ideological architect sensing the ground slip from beneath him. And a public forced to watch it all - as if it were normal.
It is not normal. It is an affront. To political reason, to governmental responsibility, to every basic measure of integrity. This administration does not resemble a cabinet - it resembles a classroom. Only without supervision. And with very, very expensive toys.
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