It was February 7, 2025. A Friday.
Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet, posted on X: “I love @realDonaldTrump as much as a straight man can love another man.”
Kanye West, in the middle of what would become a multi-day antisemitic meltdown, posted two words: “IM A NAZI.”
And President Donald Trump, apparently unbothered by either of those developments, took to Truth Social to announce the most urgent matter facing the nation: “I will be signing an Executive Order next week ending the ridiculous Biden push for Paper Straws, which don’t work. BACK TO PLASTIC!”
Someone screenshotted all three posts side by side and captioned it “the best day in Twitter history.” Millions of people saw it. Nobody could believe all three were real.
All three posts went live within hours of each other. Same day. Same internet. Same timeline.
That was one year ago. Here’s where all three men are now — and somehow, it only gets weirder.
The Bromance That Exploded
When Musk posted his love letter to Trump, the two were practically living together. Musk had spent $288 million helping Trump win the White House. He was running the Department of Government Efficiency. He reportedly slept at the White House on some nights.
A month later, Trump turned the White House South Lawn into a Tesla showroom — sat in a red Model S with Musk, held up handwritten notes with Tesla prices for the cameras, and said he’d pay by check.
By June, Musk was calling Trump’s spending bill “a disgusting abomination.” Trump was calling Musk a “TRAIN WRECK” and privately telling people Musk was “a big-time drug addict.” Musk accused Trump of being in the Epstein files. Trump threatened to cancel his government contracts and told a Michigan rally crowd that maybe Musk should “go back to where he came from.”
When one X user told Musk that Trump had always planned to “use you and drop you,” Musk responded with a sad-face emoji.
By September, they were speaking again. By January 2026, Musk posted a smiling photo from dinner at Mar-a-Lago: “2026 is going to be amazing!”
He’s now writing checks to Republican campaigns ahead of the 2026 midterms.
The Man Who Called Himself a Nazi Is Now Selling Out Stadiums
Image credit: @nottutucass/X
Kanye didn’t stop at “IM A NAZI.” That same weekend, he posted “I LOVE HITLER NOW WHAT B****ES,” called himself racist, and aired a Super Bowl ad directing viewers to his website. When they got there, the only item for sale was a $20 white T-shirt with a black swastika on it. The product was labeled “HH-01” — reportedly code for “Heil Hitler.” According to TMZ, the ad generated $2 million in sales. Shopify pulled the site down two days later.
Before deactivating his X account, he thanked Elon Musk “for allowing me to vent” and called the experience “cathartic.” His wife Bianca Censori reportedly nearly left him over the shirts. The New York Post quoted a source saying the swastika merch was “the last straw.”
That was a year ago.
Today, Kanye West is headlining a world tour. Sold-out shows in Mexico City. A 60,000-seat concert in India — his first ever. A 103,000-capacity festival in Italy this July. A new album on the way. And Bianca — the wife who almost left — just broke her public silence in interviews, doing press alongside him.
In between, he showed up uninvited to Diddy’s sex trafficking trial in an all-white outfit, confirmed he was there to support Combs, watched from a private overflow room for 40 minutes, and left.
In January, he took out a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal apologizing for everything, blaming a manic episode and a brain injury from a car accident 25 years ago.
Australia banned him from entering the country. Everywhere else is selling tickets.
The Straw That Broke America’s Back
While Musk was professing love and Kanye was professing Nazism, Trump signed an executive order titled — and this is real — “Ending Procurement and Forced Use of Paper Straws.”
The White House then produced a 45-page strategy document to implement it. The opening section was titled “The Straw That Broke America’s Back.” It directed every federal agency to remove paper straws from government buildings.
During the signing ceremony, Trump addressed the environmental concerns directly. “I don’t think that plastic is going to affect a shark very much,” he said, “as they’re munching their way through the ocean.”
For context, plastic straws account for roughly 0.025 percent of the plastic waste that enters the world’s oceans each year.
The executive order is still in effect.
One Screenshot Later
A year later, the man who declared his love for Trump went to war with him, responded to a breakup post with a sad-face emoji, and came crawling back with a checkbook. The man who declared himself a Nazi, sold swastika shirts during the Super Bowl, and showed up to a sex trafficking trial in all white is now selling out arenas on four continents. And the paper straws executive order is a real, enforceable government policy with its own 45-page strategy document and a section about sharks.
The screenshot from February 7, 2025 is still making the rounds online. People still share it thinking it’s fake.
It never was.
