The ultimate loser of Trump and Musks bloody battle royale could be the nation

Godzilla vs King Kong.Ali vs Frazier.

Yankees vs.Red Sox.

Trump vs.Musk is bigger than all of them because — unlike the first match — this one is real.

And unlike the other two, it has real-world consequences.The future of the republic — not to mention the future of Tesla, ­SpaceX and Musk’s other cutting-edge tech companies — could be at stake, depending on how bad it all gets.Of course, with this pair, they could make up while this column is at the printer.Musk is known to do 180s in business like most people breathe, and he seems open (at least for now) to rapprochement.

That’s why, after tanking during early rounds of the fight, Tesla shares spiked on Friday.Trump, meanwhile, can be forgiving when he sees an opportunity.Remember how he mocked “Little Marco,” who after a ­MAGA-esque transformation is now Secretary of State Marco ­Rubio.

Trump wanted to ban TikTok but as I was first to report, he’s extending its life in the US.He came to believe that even if it is Chinese spyware, it helped him win a second term.But there’s a better case that the Trump-Musk feud will linger.

These men maintain some of the biggest egos on the planet; Musk actually thinks he’s the reason Trump got elected since Elon owns X (formerly Twitter), which became a MAGA megaphone.If you know Trump like I do, someone taking credit for his success is a third rail.Plus, Musk isn’t a natural convert to MAGA.

These dudes bonded because Musk, a former Democrat, believed his party lost its mind on woke.His EV maker Tesla, a darling of the environmental movement, has a big operation in China, the main target of Trump’s trade war.

Musk called Peter Navarro, Trump’s lead trade warrior, “Peter Retarrdo” because Elon’s no fan of tariffs.For his part, Trump is no budget hawk.It’s telling that this fight started with Musk’s critique that the president’s “big, beautiful bill” spends too much money.

It quickly exposed other fissures lurking beneath t...