The slap fight between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has highlighted the absurdity of keeping so much of our space program and satellite internet infrastructure in the hands of a single oligarch.

Reports about the daily drama of the second Trump administration often feel less like normal political news than recaps of a reality TV show. This is an administration where the actual official name of the president’s signature legislation is the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Meanwhile, Vice President J.D. Vance regularly beefs with mid-tier journalists on social media, and when Trump and Vance dressed down Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, Trump actually said the words, “This is going to be great television.”

It was only to be expected that, when the Trump/Elon Musk bromance

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