July 1, 2025
"Send Him Back" - The Trump-Musk Partnership That Shook Washington Part 4
The world's richest man vs. the world's most powerful man just got nuclear. Three weeks after their explosive June 5th breakup, Trump and Musk's war has escalated beyond politics into something far more dangerous: deportation threats, drug accusations, and $34 billion in financial carnage. When Steve Bannon called for Musk to be "deported immediately" as an "illegal alien," the gloves came off completely. Secret 1995 visa fraud allegations.
Trump privately branding Musk a "big-time drug addict." A cold war of contract cancellations and bureaucratic warfare. And polling data that revealed America's brutal verdict: 92% of MAGA supporters chose Trump over the man who spent $290 million to elect him. From immigration lawyers preparing for an unprecedented denaturalization case to Tesla losing $150 billion in market value, this is the story of how a political feud became an existential threat.
When pride becomes more important than policy, when personal vendettas trump national interests, and when the deportation of a billionaire becomes the ultimate power play. Some breakups end in lawyers. This one might end in handcuffs—and a one-way ticket out of America. New episodes drop every Sunday. Previous episodes: "The Alliance," "The Crack," and "The Explosion" available now.
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Calarogu Shark Media. Welcome back to feuds, power, pride, and payback.
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I'm Marcus Reid. When we left our story three weeks ago,
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the world had just witnessed the spectacular public meltdown of
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the most powerful political alliance in modern history. In the
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span of six hours on June fifth, twenty twenty five,
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk had gone from reluctant partners
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to bitter enemies, trading threats and accusations that sent shockwaves
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through Washington and Wall Street. But if you thought that
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explosive confrontation was the end of the story, you were wrong.
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What followed was something even more dramatic, the systematic destruction
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of everything they had built together, the emergence of deportation,
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threats against the world's richest man, revelations that would make
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their public war look like a polite disagreement. Tonight, we're
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diving into the aftermath of the explosion the three weeks
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that followed June fifth and proved that when titans fall,
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they don't just crash, They crater. This is the story
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of how a political feud became a legal threat, how
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deportation became a weapon, and how two men who once
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shared power became so consumed with destroying each other that
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they forgot what they were really fighting for. From Steve
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Bannon's deportation demands to Trump's private accusations of drug addiction,
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to polling data that showed America picking sides, this is
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the final chapter of the alliance that was supposed to
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reshape America, but instead reshaped the definition of political warfare.
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This is episode four, the Deportation Threat Act one. The
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morning after June sixth, twenty twenty five, as dawn broke
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over Washington, the political world was still processing what they
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had witnessed the day before. The Trump Musk alliance, the
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partnership that had dominated headlines for six months, was over.
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But in the harsh light of morning, both sides were
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about to discover that their war had consequences neither had anticipated.
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For Elon Musk, the immediate aftermath was financial devastation on
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a scale that even the world's richest man had never experienced.
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Tesla's stock price had collapsed fifteen percent in a single day,
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wiping out thirty four billion dollars of Musk's personal wealth.
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It was the second largest one day loss in financial history.
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Exceeded only by Musk's own thirty six billion dollar loss
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during a previous market crash, But the numbers told only
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part of the story. Trading volumes for Tesla put options
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had exceeded four million contracts, the highest on record. Short
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Sellers who had bet against Tesla for years, made four
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billion dollars in a single day. The market was sending
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a clear message. Investors believed Musk's political war with Trump
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was going to destroy his business empire. The ripple effects
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extended far beyond Tesla. SpaceX was facing questions about its
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five billion dollar debt sale for Musk's AI company Xai.
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Would lenders want to do business with someone locked in
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combat with the President of the United States. Trump Media
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and Technology Group, the president's own social media company, saw
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its shares fall eight percent as investors worried about the
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broader implications of the feud. But for Trump, the morning
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brought a different kind of reckoning in phone calls with
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allies and confidence. Once the President was trying to process
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what had just happened, According to sources who spoke to
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The Washington Post, Trump was dejected and rattled by Musk's
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public attacks. This wasn't the typical political opposition Trump was
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used to fighting. This was personal betrayal from someone he
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had trusted, someone he had brought into the inner circle
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of power. In one particularly revealing phone call, Trump described
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Musk as a big time drug addict, referring to reports
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about Musk's acknowledged use of ketamine for depression. It was
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a vicious personal attack that showed how deeply Musk's betrayal
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had wounded the president, but it also revealed something else.
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Trump was genuinely surprised by the feud. Despite all the
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warning signs, all the behind the scenes tensions we explored
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in previous episodes, Trump hadn't seen this coming. The president's
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advisers were scrambling to contain the damage. Vice President J. D. Vance,
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who had been tasked with managing the relationship with Silicon Valley,
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was caught in an impossible position. In an interview recorded
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on Thursday but released Saturday, Vance described Musk's attacks as
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nuclear and suggested it might not be possible for Musk
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to come back into the fold. But the most ominous
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development came not from Trump himself, but from one of
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his most loyal allies, Steve Bannon. Act two Bannon's gambit.
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Steve Bannon had been waiting for this moment for months.
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The former White House strategist and architect of Trump's populist
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movement had watched with growing alarm as Musk gained influence
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in the administration. To Bannon, Musk represented everything wrong with
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modern conservatism, an elite billionaire with questionable loyalties who had
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somehow convinced Trump to give him unprecedented power. Now with
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the Alliance and Ruins, Bannon saw his opportunity to strike
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a killing blow. On June sixth, in a phone interview
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with The New York Times, Bannon made a statement that
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would reshape the entire feud. They should initiate a formal
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investigation of his immigration status because I am of the
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strong belief that he is an illegal alien and he
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should be deported from the country immediately. It was an
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unprecedented escalation. Bannon wasn't just calling for Musk to be
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removed from government. He was calling for him to be
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removed from the country entirely. The world's richest man, the
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CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, should be investigated and potentially
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deported like any other undocumented immigrant. The allegation wasn't entirely
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without basis. In October twenty twenty four, the Washington Post
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had published a detailed investigation claiming that Musk had worked
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illegally in the United States in nineteen ninety five. According
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to the report, based on former business associates, court records,
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and company documents, Musk had entered the US on a
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J one student visa to attend Stanford University, but had
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never actually enrolled. Instead, he had immediately begun working on
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a start up company that would become Zip to The
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Post cited a two thousand and five email from a
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defamation lawsuit in which Musk allegedly admitted that he had
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applied to Stanford because he otherwise had no legal right
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to stay in the country. If true, it meant that
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Musk had committed visa fraud, a serious immigration violation that
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could theoretically be grounds for revoking his citizenship and deporting
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him decades later. Musk had denied the allegations when they
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first surfaced, posting on x that he was in fact
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allowed to work in the US, but the details were murky,
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and Bannon was now demanding a formal investigation that could
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expose everything the deportation threat was more than just political theater.
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Under US law, naturalization can be revoked if citizenship was
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procured by concealment of a material fact or by wilful misrepresentation.
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If the government could prove that Musk had lied during
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his immigration process, they could strip him of his citizenship
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and begin deportation proceedings. Immigration lawyers were quick to point
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out how unusual such a case would be. Undoing that
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requires a very gung ho u s attorney willing to
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challenge naturalization, explained Robert P. Gaffney, an immigration attorney. We
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don't usually see that in cases that don't involve a
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slam dunk. But these weren't normal circumstances. Bannon wasn't just
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making a legal argument, he was making a political one.
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He was challenging Trump to prove his commitment to immigration
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enforcement by going after the highest profile target imaginable, the
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world's richest man. For Trump, Bannon's gambit created a perfect
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storm of opportunity and risk. On one hand, deporting Musk
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would be the ultimate demonstration of Trump's power and his
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commitment to immigration law. It would show that no one,
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not even billionaires, was above the law. On the other hand,
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it would be an unprecedented escalation that could have massive
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economic and political consequences. SpaceX was crucial to NASA's operations
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and America's space program. Tesla was a major American manufacturer.
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Going after Musk could damage relationships with other Silicon Valley
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leaders and potentially hurt American com competitiveness. But Bannon had
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calculated correctly. He knew Trump's psychology better than almost anyone.
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The President was wounded, angry, and looking for ways to
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strike back at someone who had humiliated him on the
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world stage. The deportation threat was the perfect weapon, legal, devastating,
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and completely within Trump's power to pursue Act three. The
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Cold War begins. As the deportation threat swirled, both Trump
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and Musk seemed to recognize that their war had reached
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a dangerous new level. After the nuclear exchange of June fifth,
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both sides pulled back from their most aggressive public attacks,
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but behind the scenes, a different kind of warfare was beginning,
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a Cold war of bureaucratic pressure, economic threats, in legal maneuvering.
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Trump's response was characteristically direct. In interviews with multiple news outlets,
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he made clear that his relationship with Musk was over.
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I would assume so, yeah, he told NBC when asked
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if the relationship was finished. He had no plans to
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speak with Musk anytime soon and was not even thinking
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about the Tesla CEO. But Trump wasn't content to simply
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ignore Musk. He began systematically reviewing every aspect of the
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government's relationship with Musk's companies. We'll take a look at everything,
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Trump told reporters. It's a lot of money. The numbers
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were staggering. SpaceX alone held contracts worth billions of dollars
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with NASA, the Department of Defense, and other federal agencies.
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Tesla benefited from environmental tax credits and subsidies worth hundreds
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of millions annually. Starlink, Musk's satellite internet service, had contracts
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with the military and rural broadband programs. All of it
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was now under review. Trump wasn't just threatening to cancel
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future contracts, he was examining whether existing agreements could be
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terminated for costs. The message was clear. If Musk wanted
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to fight the President of the United States, he would
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discover exactly how much his business empire depended on government support.
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The threats extended beyond business. Trump hinted at broader consequences
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if Musk decided to fund Democratic candidates in upcoming elections.
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He'll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that,
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Trump warned, though he wouldn't specify what those consequences might be. Musk,
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for his part, seemed to recognize the danger of his position.
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After his explosive attacks on June fifth, his social media
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activity became noticeably more restrained. He stopped directly attacking Trump
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and instead focused on broader political themes. On June sixth,
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he posted a poll asking his two hundred twenty million followers,
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is it time to create a new political party in
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America that actually represents the eighty percent in the middle.
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The poll results, which showed exactly eighty percent support for
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a new party, allowed Musk to pivot from personal attacks
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on Trump to a broader critique of the two party system.
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It was a clever move that let him maintain his
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opposition to Trump's policies while avoiding the kind of personal
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insults that had made the feud so toxic. But the
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poll also revealed Musk's strategic thinking. He was seriously considering
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launching his own political movement one that could potentially draw
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support from both disillusioned Republicans and moderate Democrats. It was
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an ambitious plan that could reshape American politics if Musk
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could survive the Trump administration's attempts to destroy his business empire.
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The Cold War was also playing out in Congress, where
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Republican leaders found themselves caught between their loyalty to Trump
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and their practical need for Musk's support. House Speaker Mike
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Johnson tried to thread the needle, saying he had been
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texting with Musk and hoped the dispute would be resolved quickly.
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I don't argue with him about how to build rockets,
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and I wish he wouldn't argue with me about how
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to craft legislation and pass it, Johnson said diplomatically, But
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other Republicans were less diplomatic. Representative Troy Needles of Texas
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demanded that Musk stop attacking Trump, saying his statements were
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irresponsible and certainly not healthy. The message from Congressional Republicans
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was clear, choose Trump or choose exile from the Party.
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Act four America pick sides. While Trump and Musk waged
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their Cold War in Washington and Silicon Valley something fascinating
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was happening across the country. Ordinary Americans were choosing sides
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in the most consequential political feud of the modern era.
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The polling data revealed a stark and decisive result. According
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to a Yugov survey conducted in the week following the
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June fifth explosion, Republicans overwhelmingly sided with Trump over Musk
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by a margin that was almost comical in its one sidedness.
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Seventy four percent backed Trump, while only six percent supported Musk.
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But the numbers were even more dramatic when broken down
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by Trump's most loyal supporters. Among Republicans who identified as
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MAGA Republicans, ninety two percent sided with Trump and just
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four percent with Musk. Even among non MAGA Republicans, those
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who considered themselves more traditional conservatives, fifty one percent percent
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backed Trump, compared to only nine percent for Musk. The
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polling revealed something profound about the nature of political loyalty
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in the Trump era. Musk had spent over two hundred
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ninety million dollars to help elect Trump. He had used
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his massive social media platform to amplify Trump's message. He
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had appeared at rallies and given Trump unprecedented access to
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Silicon Valley's elite. But when the chips were down, when
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voters had to choose between Trump and the man who
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had helped put him in office, it wasn't even close.
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The demographic breakdowns were equally revealing. Musk's favorability ratings among
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Republicans had collapsed from seventy six percent favorable and eighteen
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percent unfavorable to sixty seven percent favorable and twenty eight
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percent unfavorable in just one week. His net favorability among
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Republicans fell from plus fifty nine to plus thirty nine,
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a running twenty point drop that showed how quickly political
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fortunes could change in the Trump universe. Democrats, meanwhile, remained
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consistently opposed to Musk, with around eighty percent viewing him
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unfavorably both before and after the feud. The fight with
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Trump hadn't made Musk any more popular with liberals. It
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had simply cost him his support among conservatives without gaining
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him anything on the left. The polling also revealed the
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power of attribution in political messaging. When Yugov asked Americans
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whether they agreed with a statement that Trump's budget will
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massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to two point
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five trillion and burden American citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt.
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More people agreed when told the statement came from Musk
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than when it was presented without attribution. Musk's name still
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carried weight on fiscal issues, even among people who opposed
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him politically. But perhaps the most striking finding was how
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the feud affected perceptions of Trump himself. Despite the chaos
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