In "Who's the Boss" show White House sequel we ask who plays Tony and who plays Angela? Hint: neither are played by Vance. By Hal M. Brown

As I completed this blog this was on CNN:

I can't take the comparision between the competition for the designation of "boss" as in "who's the boss" between Trump and Musk beyond the title of the long running award winning (eight seasons) tv series starring Tony Danza and Judith Light as the the adults, Tony and Angela, and Alyissa Milano and Danny Pintauro as the children. 

I am just using the title since it was the ongoing theme of competition for dominance in a family-like situation in a tv series. (Tony and Angela aren't partners.)

The person who is supposed to be the boss in our current version of the Bizarro World of American politics is Donald Trump.  A larger version of the big bellied boss AI picture is above:

Technical note: In order to get the lettering on the shirt I used AI to make an image of Trump in a t-shirt and took the lettering from a publicity photo for "Who's the Boss."

The only person in the Trump-o-sphere close enough to him so he casts the shadow of his magnificence in their direction, who has a driving ambition is Elon Musk. He seems to be physically the closest to Trump in most photos. 

The only other person in the race to be the boss, is J.D. Vance. He does this in a very different way than Musk. In the recent government funding battle he's been making the news frequently. One risks serious injuries trying to get between Vance and a camera.

There is no doubt in my mind that Vance wants to be president and he is only biding his time hoping Trump meets him maker in the great beyond (wherever that might be) sooner rather than later. He knows that once Trump is in office his role will be greatly diminished and what he says and does will be about as newsworthy as the publicity seeking antics of George Santos or Matt Gaetz.

He knows that Musk and Trump have developed a bro-bond that he can never come close to having with him. From all I've been able to discern Trump actually enjoys being with Musk. My hunch is that Vance is plotting ways to break that bond and hoping he can fill the vacuum left behind.

Unfortunately for Vance if Trump dumps Musk because he decides theres no room in the room for two attention craving kings he may decide never to let anyone with any semblence of charisma get close to him. 

Vance wasn't in either of these photos (Melania wasn't in the family photo so I added her on the left and added Vance on the right in the airplane photo, click images to enlarge):

The best Vance he could do to show how close he was to Trump was posting a poorly photoshopped image for Thanksgiving.

I am not sure what Musk's end game is. He knows his glory days will last only as long as Trump is president. He knows, just like Vance does, that Trump could bite the big one (not a Big Mac or it could happen while biting a Big Mac) and shuffle off the mortal coil to the Mar-a-Lago in the sky (or in the other place).

Trump mocks those men he considers beta males. His former BFF Howard Stern is an example. He is attracted to so-called alpha males, men who he believes rule the phallocentric manophere, men who he considers almost, but not quite, as hypermasculine as himself. 

The risk Musk is taking on his quest to become ruler of the country if not of the world, besides that of Trump taking a one way trip to the Pearly Gates, is that Trump feels overshadowed by him. 

If that happens I predict Trump will dump him like he's a hot baboon.

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