8 points
He’s also attached himself to a fickle narcissist with a long history of throwing people away like tissues when they become slightly inconvenient, even at the cost of long-term value.
Musk knows that if Trump ditches him, he loses a hundred billion + in stock paper value, pretty much immediately. That’s a lot of leverage and a lot of reason to stay on his good side.
It’ll be interesting to see how it plays out.