Tesla, SpaceX and xAI are struggling to deal with the fallout from Musk’s Trump feud and wild bets. Musk had started his stint in the second Trump administration as close to the top of the world as any centibillionaire can be. He appointed himself head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, the cost-cutting effort that made him briefly one of the most powerful people in Washington and provided the backdrop for a surreal kind of political performance art. He stalked around the