The most famous and powerful bros broke up today. Elon Musk and Donald Trump turned on one another. Elon had spent months slashing and burning the federal government, destroying agencies and Departments.
Congress sat back and watched, happy to relinquish their Constitutional powers to the richest man in the world. No, he can’t close down USAID, which is Congressionally authorized. No, he can’t shutter the U.S. Department of Education, without the consent of Congress. Republicans in Congress did nothing to slow him down or reclaim their Constitutional duties.
Apparently, Elon was not happy to learn that Trump’s new budget will increase the national debt.
The tweets flew today between Musk and Trump. I don’t have them all, but you will get the picture of intense acrimony.
The most amazing tweet: Musk wrote that Trump would have lost and Republicans would have lost the House without Elon’s help. What did Elon do that turned the election for Trump? We know he offered million dollar rewards to Trump voters, but only a few. What else did he do? Was it something about voting machines?
I am not taking sides. They deserve each other.
The Boston Globe summed it up:
May 27: Musk says he’s ‘disappointed’ in Trump’s spending bill
Musk criticized Trump’s spending bill, saying he was “disappointed” in the president’s bill in a CBS News interview.
“I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,” Musk told CBS.
DOGE stands for the Department of Government Efficiency, which has been responsible for slashing federal programs and jobs during Trump’s first months back in office.
June 3: Musk calls Trump’s spending bill a ‘disgusting abomination’
Just days after Musk departed as a senior adviser at the White House, the billionaire issued a scathing criticism on X, calling President Trump’s spending bill a “disgusting abomination”
“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk wrote on X. “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”
June 4: Musk continues to blast Trump’s bill
Musk on Wednesday escalated his attacks, urging lawmakers to “KILL the BILL.”
“Call your Senator, Call your Congressman,” Musk wrote. “Bankrupting America is NOT ok!”
June 5: Trump threatens to cut Musk’s government contracts
During an Oval Office meeting Thursday with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Trump told reporters that he was “very disappointed” with Musk as the tech billionaire continued to blast the president’s massive tax and spending cuts package.
“I’m very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill,” Trump said. “I’m very disappointed in Elon. I’ve helped Elon a lot.”
Trump added that he and Musk “had a great relationship” but “I don’t know if we will anymore.”
Musk swiftly responded to the president’s criticism on social media, saying “Slim and beautiful is the way.”
“Whatever. Keep the EV/solar incentive cuts in the bill, even though no oil & gas subsidies are touched (very unfair!!), but ditch the MOUNTAIN of DISGUSTING PORK in the bill,” Musk wrote on X.
“In the entire history of civilization, there has never been legislation that both big and beautiful. Everyone knows this! Either you get a big and ugly bill or a slim and beautiful bill. Slim and beautiful is the way,” Musk added.
Musk continued his criticism in a series of posts, saying Trump has him to thank for winning back the Oval Office.
“Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate,” Musk wrote.
“Such ingratitude,” Musk wrote in a follow-up post.
Just hours after Trump said he was “disappointed” with Musk, the billionaire fired back online — prompting Trump to stoke the flames by threatening to cut Musk’s government contracts.
“The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts,” Trump wrote Truth Social, his social media network. “I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!”
Musk then claimed Trump is in the Jeffrey Epstein files, then reposted a comment calling for the president’s impeachment.
Trump fired back on Truth social, saying Musk “just went CRAZY!”
In a separate post, Trump touted his spending bill and suggested Musk should’ve turned against him months ago.
OnnElin’s Twitter account (@Elonmusk), he tweeted that Trump would cause a recession in the second half of the year. He also retweeted videos of Trump partying with Jeffrey Epstein and young women.
At 3:10 pm today, Musk tweeted:
Time to drop the really big bomb:
@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.
Have a nice day, DJT!
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They are on the same side, enrichment and power for billionaires no matter the cost, harm, and death to the rest of us. This is just a skirmish among the selfish.
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Trumplethinskin said something today about children fighting on a playground — it’s always projection with that guy …
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Two narcissistic egomaniacs went from bosom buddies to mortal enemies in a very short period of time, it was inevitable. Enjoy the schadenfreude.
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Two massive egos collided.
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Trump has committed unspeakable evils. One wonders if these will ever catch up to him.
And btw, if Musk was aware of Trump’s escapades in his Epstein years, why is he saying something about them only now? Creepy doesn’t even begin to describe the reality.
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The right word is disgusting.
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And what’s with the mutual criticism between Donnie and Vladimir? Has someone in his circle convinced Donnie that if Vladimir releases THE TAPE, then Donnie can just claim that it’s a deep fake? I say someone because Donnie is incapable of generating an original idea on his own. Typically, some evil figure in his circle says something Donnie likes, and then Donnie misconstrues it and makes it part of THE SPEW to reporters and in rallies.
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Did you notice that Trump was angry that Ukraine wiped out 1/3 of the Russian bombers that’s been obliterating schools, hospitals, homes and tens of thousands of innocent civilians?
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Just further evidence that obscene wealth does not require intellectual capacity.
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The moron-in-chief meets with the German Chancellor and talks about what a “terrible day for you” D-Day was.
Trump tells German Chancellor D-Day was ‘not a pleasant day’ for his country
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As we say in our family, never get in the way of lemmings and their cliff.
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St. Ronald of Reagan (NOT!) was “B movie actor” turned into a proto-reality star/president. Thank God the world wasn’t blown up in the process. But the other damage he did we’re still enduing….
This current idiot in the White House is like a pro wrestler. And, not that I’m against watching that sort of thing… roller derby etc… But that’s about the level the U.S. has sunk to.
So, Elon and Donald…. not wearings capes etc…but in costumes of a sort.
Meanwhile, wars, famine….children dying every day because of U.S. assistance shut down.
“Depraved” is the word that comes to mind. Absolutely sickening.
Gladiatorial games for our age.
25 years in, I’ve come to the conclusion I really, really don’t like the 21st century.
As someone said, Y2K happened….it just took a long time to wallop us.
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If I had waited, I could have seen your much more expressive way of saying what I was thinking.
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Suddenly, we are in the middle of a TV reality show. Who knew this was going to happen?
Of course, nothing in a TV reality show is actually reality. I heard yesterday the the word “nice” had gone through several iterations over the years, some negative and positive. Reality seems to be headed that way as well.
I think none of this is real. Managers of a gullible public are staging this apparent tiff for some alternate purpose. Perhaps it distracts us from the rising crisis created by all the rounding up of brown people. Perhaps it makes us feel some hope that power is being removed from the orange villain. Could it be the way Thiel inserts Vance as president?
Whatever is going on, we should look elsewhere.
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Is it possible that this is just another inevitable distraction that allows the Senate to pass this atrocious bill? The press is salivating over this while Republican Senators slither back into the MAGA fold. At what point do the American people understand that governing is a serious undertaking? While the soap opera that is this White House continues, none of the real issues about budgets, services, the economy et al get addressed. There are storms, both literal and figurative, that are coming. Most of us don’t have a storm shelter.
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