It's hard to overstate all the ways Trump trumped Leon. A very, very clever bastard indeed. In return for Leon's buying him the election, Elon was promised he'd be able to wood-chip G contract competitors, Trump will strong-arm other countries into throwing their business to Elon, make off with vast troves of G data to build his AI/banking empire, kill personally despised agencies that save lives in places like Africa. And force the cancellation of 37 investigations into his businesses. Elon had a lot to look forward to in this deal.

But Trump obviously and rather deviously set him up to fail. "Bring me trillions of savings, but do it without touching the holy trinity: Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security." Those would be subject to barbering by congress, but Elon was to keep hands off. So when he of course couldn't come up with more than a few measly billion, Trump had "no choice" but to fire him. So Trump thumped Elon- ruthlessly and diabolically. Elon's car company is literally on fire, his Space X is ripe for being nationalized. And his shiner? All of this makes me think two possibilities.

1) too much Ketamine with Adderall is asking literally, for a fall.

2) His Dr. Feel Good tried to taper him down, so he took a swing at the guy, and got himself clocked by the Doc.