In seriousness, that is what’s going on, just in a little more complex fashion.

Both Trump and Musk are incapable of interacting with someone who knows what they’re talking about and also has the integrity to speak up about it. Because at some point they will disagree with some of the total bullshit that Trump/Musk is emitting. And so, over time, they become surrounded by people they’re comfortable with: Total morons, or shameless hucksters, or both at once.

Musk started out running a company that could produce the Tesla Roadster. Trump started out with John Kelly, Jim Mattis, those kinds of people. Over time, natural selection weeds those people out, because they make Trump/Musk incredibly uncomfortable and they have to get rid of them. That’s why they are both surrounded by people like Big Balls and Navarro: Because that’s what they want. People they feel comfortable with because they never disagree. And Trump and Musk are both so incredibly unqualified that people have to get really incompetent – like to a grade-school level – to reach a level that they’ll never push back against the horrible ideas that emit from them.