You are 1000% correct that part of this nonsense is the fact that it is a show. Meant to get attention, meant to make us all look. I think though it was also inevitable that these people would end up at each other's throats. They are all snakes, they will all bite each other. This feud is real, the way they are going at it is really nasty because they do hate each other and want to harm each other. Everything that happens is meant to do damage and is not a mistake. When Bannon came out and said Trump should seize Space X and deport Musk, that's meant to push Trump to do that. Trump is really going to ask the clown show around him if he can do that...and the clown show is going to give him the answer he wants...that is their job. 

Musk really has to go into self defense mode, he knows the clown show and what they will tell Trump, he knows they will say "Yes, sir, seize all his assets, sir. Deport him, yes sir." Musk was in there with all of them. He knows how it works and whatever Trump asks they are to jump up, salute, and shout "Yes, sir!" like they were in North Korea. 

Musk used that system to help himself, to go after who he wanted to go after, but now he is on the outside of it, and he knows from the outside, it works against you. He went right for the throat, said Trump is a pedophile and should be impeached. Said his big beautiful bill is an abomination. That his tariffs will destroy the country and throw us into a recession. These are all Trump soft spots, because they are all true...Musk went right for all of them. 

Now, he has to back them up. He has to see if his money will continue to buy senators and congress people. Trump needs to find ways to wrestle money away from Musk, to damage him so he can't buy other politicians. Musk is loaded up with government contracts and is entwined with corrupt regimes around the world. He has info and access that could do severe harm to the country and the world. He has leverage, probably more than anybody, he was allowed to be on the inside, he knows all the lies and secrets. What does he do? How does he do it? He can blackmail the president of the United States. Musk is now a major danger to the country...because he has all he needs to sell us out. 

It looks comical, and it is, but the game is very high stakes. Musk has a unique ability to do damage because of the access, info, and money he has. He is in bed with foreign governments all over the world. Russia, China, he can sell what he has to them. Sell Trump out to them. Sell the country out to them. It's no joke. Trump put this guy on the inside because he bought him the presidency. Well, this is why the presidency should never be for sale. Now we will see.