It’s a big news issue right now, Elon Musk and Pres. Trump are feuding, there’s a war of words going on over Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” that Musk is calling a disgusting abomination, it will increase the deficit, and so on, and Musk said today that “we should fire” senators who vote for the bill.
I smell decaying fish. Look, Musk was in the White House in the first place to expose the massive government bloat and waste and he did so. But DOGE doesn’t have the power to actually cut the waste, it can only recommend cuts and provide the evidence and reasons for doing so. The actual result is that Congress is taking ZERO action to actually do so. They love the pork, that’s why they’re all so rich. This is really why Musk walked away.
This so-called Big Beautiful Bill that Pres. Trump supposedly enthusiastically endorses in spite of Elon’s heavy criticism of it, passed the House by only one vote. That’s not exactly a ringing endorsement by Congress for this “BBB” that most seem to agree is yet one more pork-filled bloater of a bill and shows a very concerning lack of unity.
Elon’s Teslas have been under attack by Leftists since he took the side of Donald Trump, exposing all the corruption and bloat. This was obviously a nationally coordinated effort to force him out but now that they’re bad-mouthing each other and appearing to become enemies, you know that’s going to stop. So yeah, it worked but no matter, it was time to go, anyway.
Trump would not be publicly supportive of a spending bill that threatened America with even more crushing debt unless he had to, for reasons we’re not privy to. It just isn’t the way he operates, he always wants the best he can get for the lowest price. That’s how he got rich.
I have no personal opinion on the merits of this “BBB”. I leave economics to the experts, who are wrong as often as right. It just smells very fishy that Elon, who’s a true money magician, would hate this bill if it was actually good for the country, and equally fishy that Trump would love it if Elon hates it.
So how do we solve these problems of Musk’s enterprises being attacked by the Left and Trump stuck with praising a bill he actually hates? How about a good feud between them over this bill, with Musk saying the things that Trump doesn’t dare say? Do you think that would work?
Update: I may be totally on the wrong track here. Elon just posted this on X: “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files,” Musk posted to his 200+ million followers. “That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”
Oh My God. If he wanted to establish a big distance between him and Trump, that was the best way to do it. What could possibly be more effective?