What the Media Missed: Bow down to the billionaires

With just a week until Donald Trump takes the oath of office that will reignite his wildfire of a presidency, the MAGA movement is already in open civil war over who gets to be part of Trump’s exclusive (and highly powerful) inner circle. Nowhere was that clearer than in Steve Bannon lambasting billionaire Elon Musk as “truly evil,” while urging the Tesla CEO to “go back to South Africa.” Yikes!

You wouldn’t have heard about that if you watched the cable news shows this past week. It shouldn’t surprise you to know that the major media networks are all in an advanced state of “anticipatory obedience” to Trump’s incoming authoritarianism. That means no more criticism of MAGA bigwigs—especially Musk, the biggest, richest wig of them all.

That media silence feels even weirder when you consider that the Bannon vs. Musk feud is one of the dominant issues burning up the terminally online right-wing punditverse. Truly, we live in two mutually exclusive worlds.

From MAGA brawls to the high-stakes fight to bury special counsel Jack Smith’s report on Trump’s misconduct, cable TV’s talking heads missed quite a few big stories this week.

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