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Every Man Is Falling Out This Week

The Friday Post.

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Hunter Harris
Jun 06, 2025
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Elon Musk speaks during a news conference with President Trump on May 30 inside the Oval Office. (Photo: Tom Brenner For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

If a man has not embarrassed you, devoted Hung Up readers will recall, he just hasn’t embarrassed you yet. Generally, that applies to “wives,” “daughters,” “girlfriends,” and “mothers.” This week a novel development: men are embarrassing one another. Several male friendships have fallen out in spectacular fashion this week.

How you get ‘em is how you lose ‘em: the alliance between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, which catapulted both of them to the White House, was ill-fated from the start. A close friendship just cannot be sustained between two foaming-at-the-mouth rabid posters, those people obsessed with talking and being talked about. Eventually, a poster will start posting about you.

Musk is critical of Trum…

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