Last month, President Donald Trump anointed Elon Musk as an ally again by patting him on the stomach at a White House dinner for Saudi crown prince Muhammed bin Salman. The warm gesture symbolizes the thawing of relations between the two most powerful people in America, and a new report from The Washington Post—of unknown origin—as the restoration is the culmination of months of joint efforts from Vice President JD Vance with the help of AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks, who introduced Musk and Vance in the first place many years ago.

The Post report, to be clear, did not say that JD Vance and David Sacks were watching the reunion scene from The Parent Trap repeatedly and cried, and the assumption they made was irresponsible:

According to the Washington Post story, our vice president spent a lot of energy throughout the summer and fall trying to prevent Elon Musk from realizing his political party. Sources in the story also claimed that Musk was one of the people who lobbied for Trump to nominate him as vice president.

You’ll recall that Trump and Musk have slowly drifted apart, along with Musk refers to Trump’s “Great Bill” as “a disgusting abomination,” on June 3, and then posting and deleting a statement about Trump that was in the Epstein files four days ago. Then he MANILA who founded the America Party at the same time as Epstein’s post. A fairly useful analysis of the time proposed that Musk is putting a hard needle, angry about the bill that cuts the EV tax credits that benefited him as CEO of Tesla, while also acting as America’s main budget slasher. It stands to reason that cognitive dissonance could be wreaking havoc on his brain, but one can only guess why things went off the rails.

By the way, in December, Musk changed his approach to the national debt, as the only things that can heal it robots and AI. David Sacks said something very similar on his podcast back in May.

In the Post story—which, again, comes from anonymous insiders—Vance tried to appeal to Musk directly, then launched bogus appeals to shut down Musk’s allies. While he was doing that, he reportedly acted on a major demand from Musk: restoring Jared Isaacman, the billionaire CEO of a payment processing company closely associated with SpaceXas the nominee to head NASA. Trump pulled Isaacman’s nomination in the midst of his feud with Musk, and the timing shows it worked out anyway. During his Musk restoration project, Vance apparently spoke to the Senate Commerce Committee to ensure the nominating process went smoothly.

Vance began a “back channel” with Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, the report said. Sacks’ campaign with Musk apparently involved him telling Musk that their public feud was a bad thing for the country.

Vance “honestly worked the phones” in this process, in the words of Post reporters Elizabeth Dwoskin, Natalie Allison, and Faiz Siddiqui.

The pressure worked, and Musk scrapped the America Party, according to The Post. The November belly pat shows that the two are ready to be seen in public together again. However, a Post source added that Musk “enjoys the kind of role of the king,” and that part of that role is, “making sure everyone in the world knows you’re the king.”

So maybe we should expect another breakout soon.

The Washington Post did not hear from Elon Musk when it asked for comment. Vance and Sacks refused. A White House spokesman told them that “President Trump promised to cut waste, fraud, and abuse in our broken government, and the Administration is committed to delivering on this promise for the American people.”