Once upon a time. Elon Musk was Trump’s best friend. No longer. Despite his best effort to slash the government, he failed. Originally, Musk offered to secure a cut of $2 trillion, but came nowhere near that figure, eventually he dropped his goal to only $175 billion. That number may actually be much lower because of errors in the count.
When Musk learned that Trump’s new budget was vastly increased, he went ballistic.
He said that the new budget was “disgusting.” He did not mention that his companies–especially Starlink and SpaceX–will be showered with federal funding in the “one big, beautiful bill.” Starlink will have a large role in Trump’s plan to build a “Golden Dome” to protect the U.S. and that his Space X will lead the effort to travel to Mars.
Patrick Svitek of The Washington Post reported:
Elon Musk on Tuesday called President Donald Trump’s sweeping legislation making its way through Congress “pork-filled” and “a disgusting abomination.” Musk, who recently left his cost-cutting role in Trump’s administration, issued his strongest condemnation to date of the massive tax and immigration bill that narrowly passed the House and is pending in the Senate. “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong,” Musk wrote on social media. “You know it.” On Monday night, Trump re-upped his call for Congress to send the bill to his desk by July 4.

Someone has some heavy-duty thinking to do. CBK
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I wouldn’t count on a narcissist to be able to do that heavy-duty thinking.
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Hi Duane: . . . sigh . . .
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He knows his brand has been badly damaged and he’s going to try to make a big show of disagreements with Trump.
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Che peccato, couldn’t have happened to a more obnoxious crew of miscreants. This should get interesting, I can’t imagine that Trump will absorb this criticism without making some kind of retort.
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“. . . and that his Space X will lead the effort to travel to Mars.”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ad infinitum.
We can’t take care of the planet Earth. To think that Mars has something special to offer is ludicrous and risible.
A drug addled mind (and I say that with an empathetical bend for it is out of Musk’s control-despite that he and many might think that he is in control) can think of all kinds of absurdities and consider them to be true. Hell one doesn’t have to be drug addled to believe the preposterous-see faith belief adherents-whether religious or political, but I repeat myself.
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Good point, Duane. We have made a mess of Planet Earth. Why Mars? Send Elon first.
Makes as much sense as hanging the Ten Commandments in classrooms and expecting anyone to change. Start with Trump. He’s broken them all.
Hang them in the Oval Office, framed in gold.
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Meanwhile, the Repugnicans are going full speed ahead on their bill to transfer 1.5 trillion in value from the poorest of the poor in this country to the richest of the rich. And as a result of this bill, poor children will die, and they know this and do not care. And the frontman for the bill claims to be a Christian. What a tragifarce. It’s purest evil.
KIDS WILL DIE BECAUSE OF THIS.
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The Pugs are squabbling over their disagreement about the cuts not being deep enough. NOT about how they could balance this budget by taxing the engorged tech bros more. Lord knows that no one is going to make Musk and Besos and their ilk pay their fair share.
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