Musk & Meloni, sitting on a tree...?

The muskmelon isn’t the first thing you think of when you think romance.

But there you have it, staring right at your face ever since the two met in New York where Elon Musk handed over the Atlantic Council Global Citizen Award to Italian PM Giorgia Meloni – and the two seemed to drink from each other’s eyes.

For the rest of us looking on like neighbourhood uncles and aunties leaning from our balconies to see what’s going on in the ‘power park’, it was fantasising about the ultimate power couple.

Musk has confirmed – after being asked on X – that the two are ‘not dating’. But those two words can hardly stop us from going on a romcom spree.

A PM and a billionaire ‘together’ are the stuff that dating app companies are made of, giving a palpable twist to the concept of industrial-geopolitical nexus. While tycoons do dabble in the black arts of having eye candy, today’s politicians publicly come across either as monks or happy (read: boring) husbands.

To have a PM fluttering her eyelashes even a teenie-weenie, tutti-frutti bit in full public view is a breath of fresh, albeit manufactured, air. Ideologically right, the two – if they do decide to take it to the ‘next level’ – would warm the cockles of many hearts by taking a wrong protocol turn and start a ‘beautiful friendship’. Whatever it may end up being, it won’t be X (formerly Twitter)-rated.

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