Elon Musk Is Still Not Your Friend
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk might be having a messy, public break-up, but that doesn’t mean Democrats need to go mending any broken hearts.
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After months of political bliss, it seems as if the president and the world’s richest man are ready to call it quits. Donald Trump and Elon Musk traded barbs on their respective social media websites on Thursday and into Friday, as social media users happily looked on.
It was only a matter of time before Trump and Musk, who are not known for making and keeping allies, had a spectacular falling out. The inciting incident turned out to be Musk’s criticisms of the Trump-backed “Big Beautiful Bill,” the House’s spending bill that slashes the safety net in order to provide $4.5 trillion worth of tax cuts to the rich.
At first, Musk’s comments were mild, saying the bill doesn’t reduce the deficit and “undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing.” But he went fully nuclear on Thursday. Musk, who already claimed he won the election for Trump, posted to X to accuse the president of being in the “Epstein files,” or a list of people with suspicious associations with the financier, who died in jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. (Trump and Epstein socialized in the 1980s and 1990s, but Trump has denied ever being on his private plane or island, where some of the alleged sex crimes took place.) Trump, in turn, suggested on Truth Social he would cut Musk’s government contracts, while the president’s allies even started talking about deporting Musk.
At this point, it seems clear that the once-budding bromance is toast.
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