The president’s biggest campaign donor, who was so close that Trump invited him to sleep at the white House, is now calling for him to be imp and replaced by Vice President J The man, who was handed nearly unfettered access to the federal government is openly musing about forming his own political And the same guy, the billionaire, backing the US space program. He’s now threatening to take his and go home. What at this time, yesterday was a one sided attack on the pr signature spending bill is no longer just a policy disagreement. Not even close. It has now become quite personal as the president says he thinks he knows why.
Well, look, you know, I’ve always liked you, and it’s. I was very surprised you saw the words he had for me, the words for. And he hasn’t said anything abou That’s bad. I’d rather have him criticize me than the bill, because the bill is incredible.
It’s the biggest cut in the history of our country.
We’ve never cut. It’s about 1.6 trillion in cuts. Leland’s upset because we took the EV mandate. And, you know, which was a lot of money for electric vehicles.
And, you know, they’re having a hard time for electric vehicles, and they want us to pay billions of dollars in subsidy. And, you know, I, I the Elon knew this from the be As Trump was speaking from the Oval Office, Elon Musk responded in real time, writing this, quote, false. This bill was never shown to me even once, and was passed in the dead of the night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it and quote wha Keep the EV solar incentive cuts in the bill, even though no oil and gas subsidies are touched.
Very unfa But ditch the mountain of disgus pork in the bill. And with a German Chancellor sitting by his side today with the president there in the he said what he had been bottling up really for days now.
You saw a man who was very happy when he stood behind the oval de and, even with a black guy, I sa do you want a little make up? What can you do to make up? But he said, no, I don’t think so, which is inter He’s worn the hat.
Trump was right about everything and I am right about the great, big, beautiful we call it a great big, beautifu because that’s what it is. I don’t know what it is.
It’s sort of Trump Derangement S I guess they call it. But I we have it with us too. They leave and they wake up in the morning and the glamour’s gone. The whole world is different and they become hostile. I don’t know what it is.
Someday you’ll write a book abou and you’ll let us know. Not to be outdone, Musk posted in response to that quote, witho Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House, and Republicans in the Senate would be 51 to 49. Such ingratitude, he added, as the white House was scramblin to react to all of this as it was playing out in real ti today, with aides now forced to attack the person they have been defending for months in front of the camer Look at this.
You can still see the imprint of on the white House, that red Tesla that the president bought from h or Jay McMichael shot this. It was still sitting right outside the West Wing park on West Exotic.
And he’s a great patriot. And he’s also done an incredible with Tesla. And I mean, nobody else has a car company started up in the last 3 It’s been successful. I don’t think so. I love Tesla.
It’s not clear if he still feels the same way t Today the president declared that Elon was wearing thin. I asked him to leave. I took away his EV mandate that forced everyone to buy electric cars that nobody else wanted, that he knew for months I was going to do and he just we Then came the threat that could really hurt. The president said. The easiest way to give to save in our budget, billions and billions of dollars is to terminate Elon’s governmen subsidies and contracts.
I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it. Tesla’s stock price took a massi after that $150 billion in market value gon as the two were trading attacks according to Bloomberg. Elon Musk lost $34 billion today That financial hit, though, does not seem to be enough for his critics in a world this guy is all over the map, he’s right, but he’s emblematic of these oli All of them had the maturity of a nine year old, and they’re dangerous. They’re dangerous not just to the president of United States. More importantly, they’re dangerous to this republ and the citizens of this constitutional republic.
At one point, the president seemed to maybe be trying to cool things off.
He said, quote, I don’t mind Elon turning agains but he should have done this mon And I’m told that allies of both the president and Musk were kind of caught in the middle of all of this tod They were quietly and delicately trying to broker peace between the two men behind the s But those efforts were upended when Elon Musk wrote this. This was really kind of the end He said, time to drop the really big bomb. Donald Trump is in the Epstein f That is the real reason they have not paid public. Have a nice day DJT.
Now, I should note tonight there’s no evidence when it comes to what this looks in terms of the Epstein files.
Beyond that, the white House says his bomb is an unfortunate episode, and several people familiar with what was happening behind the scenes described the Epstein tweet to m as the tipping point, though in this relationship, now, fearing that there is no go we have a full house of deeply sauced insiders to start us off on what is a remarkable day at the white House, San Antonio Sullivan and Brian Stelter, and also POLI Dasha Burns and the Associated P Sungmin, Kim, Dasha, I mean, I just want to know what you’re from from people at the white House tonight, because what we were hearing is, yes, this was a breakup that was predictable. But even people inside the white did not see it going down like t And as fast as it happened today I mean, the group chats inside the white House were just on fir today, people comparing it to a saying, yeah, we thought it was going to happe but maybe, maybe not until the fall or in a few months. What have you been hearing from people tonight? Yeah, my phone’s been just absolutely blowing up people inside the white House.
People on the Hill. I mean, the divorce analogies are rampant right now. Look, it was the ferocity, the how quickly this happened. And once he started going down t hole of the Epstein files, that’s when the conversation with the white House allies and people inside of the white House really As I was communicating with folk all day, they were saying, this is now going into Crazytown They were people were telling me the president is concerned about Elon Musk’s well-being, th you saw the reporting as we all from the times around, the drug They didn’t expect it to go quite in this di And at this point, you know, earlier on, people were saying, look, th These are two titans. They’re clashing, but they’ll they’ll come back together.
Now it seems like the the hope for any sort of reconciliation i And the goal is just to try to turn the temperature down her I mean, that’s really the question here is how you turn the tempera when you have got these two major personalities, two alphas who are trying to essentially ou one another in terms of, of inflicting harm.
Now that this relationship is we watching it totally implode. Yeah. I mean, Elon Musk and Donald Trump hate each other where it hurts the most. They hate each other’s egos.
And for Elon Musk, Donald Trump really hit at his wallet. So it’s really difficult to see what the two sides can do to at even turn the temperature down a But this fight could have released your actual contact lenses for President Trump’s agenda. I was really fascinated by some of the early comments we’re getting from Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill about the impact on that so-called one big, beautiful bill.
I mean, there’s Ryan Zinke, a Republican from Montana. He was interior secretary for President Trump in his first And he said that it’s you know, you have the richest man in the and you have the most powerful m in the world going up against ea It really does put it can put the bill in serious j And while I’m a little bit skept about how much, I was a little skeptical at this point about how much power Elon Musk will have at this point.
I think a lot of his power, within the Republican Party, comes from his proximity to Dona But it certainly doesn’t help when the fate of the bill is already very much teetering on the edge. Yeah. And don’t you know, when it comes it started out just, you know, this policy fight on o what was happening on Capitol Hi Obviously, anyone who crosses Tr should expect to face his wrath. It was actually surprising how long he took to respond to E But on the Epstein files, I think just I just to properly convey to people who may not be on Twit as much as you and I are, it is the lowest of the low insu to to say to someone in right wi or the right wing atmosphere, oh, you’re in the Epstein files.
Yes, I that really is.
You know, that is the Kryptonite And maybe why Trump finally resp Right. I mean, when it comes to when it comes to the Epstein files, Epstein lists whatever folks want to call us. It doesn’t actually matter what in reality. I mean, there have been names that have been associated with Jeffrey Epstein that have been released through Trump’s name came out in documen last year, but there was absolut accusation of wrongdoing, on Trump’s part whatsoever.
But his name was as a, as a as somebody who knew, Epstein.
what is most important, though, is what people and the MAGA verse imagine what this lists is to be Right. And this they imagine, is a list of all the bad people, all the bad people who went to Epstein’s island and you know, abused young women and did other criminal things. and what people also believe is that list is made up of Trump’s enemies normally. Rig We see, there’s been many versions of th that’s circulated online. They did this to themselves because it’s the Trump orbit that amplified the conspiracy th about Jeffrey Epstein’s list, and who was on it, and what it meant about those pe And so for Elon Musk to say that that is why that kind of takes t to this other level doesn’t mean anything.
It doesn’t mean that there was wrongdoing. We don’t know that. No, but there’s already pictures and Jeffrey Epstein together. We knew he was a member at Mar-A and then was was was removed from the club.
But it was kind of the right turning on the right here 100%.
And there is going to be a situa now where people have to choose sides, right? GOP lawmakers are already asking themselves magazine, Trump or Musk. I’m sure most of them will choos.
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