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Why the MAGA Spat With Musk Has Teeth

Catching up on the provocateurs’ feud. Plus: Airlines that stay on schedule.

Elon Musk arrives at Mar-a-Lago Club with his mother, Maye, and his son on New Year’s Eve.

Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images

If you were off social media at the end of December, consider yourself lucky—the big story on X, at least, was a noisy and seemingly never-ending spat between Elon Musk and the MAGA-verse. What does this bode for the start of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term? Bloomberg Businessweek’s Max Chafkin breaks it down. Plus: the world’s most on-time airlines. If this email was forwarded to you, click here to sign up.

The holidays bring people together, which, of course, leads to the kind of vicious fights that can only happen within a family. Elon Musk, Donald Trump and a minivan full of MAGA characters came to virtual blows over the past week or so—previewing what could be an extremely messy four years.