June 8, 2025
The Trump-Musk Partnership That Shook Washington. Part 2 - "The Crack"
The perfect alliance was hiding perfect fractures. In the seven days between Elon Musk's White House farewell and their explosive public war, the Trump-Musk partnership was quietly disintegrating. Behind closed doors, cabinet members were calling Musk "a fraud." A humiliated White House aide was plotting revenge. And Trump was systematically dismantling policies Musk had fought to protect. When Musk finally called Trump's signature bill "a disgusting abomination," it wasn't a sudden breakdown—it was the inevitable result of months of personal slights, policy betrayals, and wounded egos. The crack that would soon become a chasm.
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Calaruga Shark Media. Welcome back to Feud's Power, pride, and Payback.
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I'm Marcus Reid. Last time we saw the rise of
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one of the most powerful alliances in modern American politics.
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the world's most powerful man
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and the world's richest man, united in their mission to
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reshape government and society itself. But every great alliance contains
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the seeds of its own destruction, and in the case
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of Trump and Musk, those seeds had been quietly growing
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for months, hidden beneath the public displays of mutual admiration,
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the tesla showcases, and the victory celebrations. Today we tell
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the story of how that alliance cracked. Not the explosive
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June fifth meltdown that dominated headlines, but the seven crucial
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days that came before it, the quiet tensions, the behind
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the scenes betrayals, and the personal slights that made that
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explosion inevitable. This is the story of how two of
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the most powerful egos on Earth went from first buddy
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to bitter enemies in less than a week. Episode two,
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The seven days that broke Trump and Musk Act one,
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The perfect Storm Gathering May thirtieth, twenty twenty five the
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White House Oval office for the cameras. It was a
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perfect farewell. Trump and Musk sat side by side, both
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smiling as Trump praised his departing efficiencies are as one
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of the greatest business leaders and innovators the world has
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ever produced. Musk graciously accepted a ceremonial key to the
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White House and promised to remain a friend and adviser
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to the administration. But even as the cameras rolled, the
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first cracks were already showing Musk had been forced out
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of his government role, not by choice, but by legal limits.
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His one hundred thirty day appointment as a special government
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employee was ending, and extending it would have required him
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to divest from his companies, something the world's richest man
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was never going to do. More telling was what Trump
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didn't say during that farewell. He didn't invite Musk to
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stay in government. He didn't offer him a cabinet position,
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He didn't even hint at a future formal role. The
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message was subtle but clear. Musk's time as an insider
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was over. Behind the scenes, the relationship had been deteriorating
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for weeks. The early signs were everywhere. If you knew
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where to look. In March, Musk had publicly humiliated Sergei Gore,
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Trump's director of Presidential Personnel, during a cabinet meeting in
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front of the entire cabinet. Musk accused Gore of moving
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too slowly on hiring and essentially called him incompetent. It
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was a devastating public dressing down that Trump's team never forgot.
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By April, Musk's clashes with cabinet members had become routine.
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He'd gotten into a shouting match with Treasury Secretary Scott
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Bessent in the hallway outside the Oval office. You're a fraud.
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You're a total fraud, Bessent had reportedly screamed at Musk
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after Trump sided with the Treasury secretary over IRS commissioner appointments.
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Musk had called Trade Adviser Peter Navarro a moron and
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dummer than a sack of bricks. He'd clashed repeatedly with
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, accusing him of resisting staff cuts.
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy had pushed back against Musk's infrastructure
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spending reductions. Each conflict chipped away at Musk's influence. Cabinet
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members grew more confident pushing back against his demands. Trump
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himself had to remind everyone in March that department heads,
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not Musk, had final say over staffing and policy. The
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political costs were mounting too. On April first, Musk had
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flooded Wisconsin with cash to boost a Trump aligned candidate
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for the state Supreme Court. The candidate lost badly, a
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wake up call for Republicans who began to see Musk
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as more liability than asset. Protests with signs reading no
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One voted for Elon Musk were becoming common outside Tesla
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dealerships and government buildings. Most damaging of all, Doze was
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failing to deliver on its core promises. Musk had originally
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vowed to cut two trillion dollars for federal spending. That
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target was quietly lowered to one trillion dollars, then to
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one hundred fifty billion dollars by May. Doge claimed one
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hundred seventy five billion dollars in savings, but journalists and
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analysts struggled to verify the numbers. Many of the canceled
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contracts had been terminated long before Doge existed. The man
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who had promised to take a chainsaw to government waste.
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Had managed to cut barely half of one percent of
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total federal spending, but the final week of May would
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prove that personal slights, not policy failures, would ultimately destroy
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the Trump Musk Alliance Act. Too the personal becomes political.
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The trouble began with something that should have been routine
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congressional legislation. For months, Trump had been pushing his signature
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domestic policy package through Congress, a massive tax and spending
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bill he called the One Big Beautiful Bill. It was
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designed to extend his twenty seventeen tax cuts, boost military
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and border spending, and cement his legacy as a transformational president.
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Musk had raised concerns about the bill's cost before, but
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always privately, always diplomatically. He understood that as a government
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employee he couldn't publicly oppose his boss's signature legislation. But now,
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with his White House role ending, those constraints were disappearing.
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More importantly, Musk was discovering that the bill directly threatened
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his business interests. The legislation eliminated the electric Vehicle Tax Credit,
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a program that had helped Tesla customers and boosted the
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company's sales. Tesla had spent at least two hundred forty
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thousand dollars lobbying to preserve the credit. Behind the scenes,
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Musk had personally advocated for keeping it in the bill.
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Trump had ignored him. The bill also rejected Musk's proposal
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to use his Starlink satellite system for national air traffic control.
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The administration had dismissed it both for conflict of interest
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concerns and technological limitations. You can't have air traffic control
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just runoff satellites, one senior official said. But the real
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breaking point came during that May thirtieth farewell meeting in
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the Oval Office. Just before the cameras arrived for their
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joint press conference, Sergio Gore slipped into the room with
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a background file on Jared isaac Man, Musk's close friend
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and his choice to lead NASA. Gore had been nursing
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a grudge against Musk since that March humiliation, and he'd
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spent weeks building a case against isaac Man. When Musk
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entered the room, Trump looked up from the fire yle.
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This guy gave to democrats, Trump said, referring to isaac
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Mann's past political donations. It wasn't new information. Trump had
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known about the donations for months and hadn't objected, but
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now with Gore whispering in his ear, suddenly they were
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a problem. Musk didn't fight hard for his friend. He's
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really competent. But yeah, he gave to Democrats, was all
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he offered in isaac Mann's defense. It was a moment
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that would haunt him. That weekend, Trump abruptly withdrew isaac
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Mann's nomination. No warning, no discussion, no courtesy call to
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the man who'd built SpaceX and multiple other successful companies,
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just a brief statement citing concerns about loyalty. The message
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to Musk was unmistakable. Your input is no longer valued,
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Your allies are expendable, Your time as an insider is over.
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Word quickly spread through the White House that Gore had
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orchestrated the entire thing. This was Sergio's out the door
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fuck u to Musk. One White House official told reporters
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it was payback for that March, humiliation delivered at the
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moment when Musk was most vulnerable. But Musk's frustrations went
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beyond personal slights. He was watching Trump implement policies that
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contradicted everything they'd supposedly agreed on during those four months
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of partnership. The Big Beautiful Bill wasn't just expensive, it
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was fiscally reckless. According to the non partisan Congressional Budget Office,
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it would add three point eight trillion dollars to the
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national debt over the next decade. For a man who'd
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spent months preaching fiscal responsibilities and cutting government waste, watching
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Trump propose such massive deficit spending was genuinely infuriating. Trump's
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tariff policies were equally problematic. Musk believed they would trigger
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a recession and hurt American consumers. These weren't minor policy disagreements.
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They were fundamental differences about how the economy should work.
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Most personally galling was the realization that Trump had been
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planning to eliminate the EV tax credit all along. He
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knew for months I was going to do it, Trump
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would later say. Musk had spent his entire time in
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government advocating for policies that Trump had already decided to reject.
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He'd been played Act three, the first public crack. By Tuesday,
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June third, Musk's patience had run out. That morning, he
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opened his ex account and fired off a post that
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would change everything. I'm sorry, but I just can't stand
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it anymore. This massive, outrageous, this pork filled congressional spending
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bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted
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for it. You know you did wrong, You know it.
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It was the first time Musk had publicly criticized Trump's
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signature legislation. The timing was devastating. The post went live
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during a White House press briefing, blindsiding Trump's team on
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live television. Press Secretary Caroline Livitt tried to downplay it.
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The President already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill,
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She said. It doesn't change the president's opinion. This is
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one big, beautiful bill and he's sticking to it. But
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the damage was done. Musk followed up with more posts,
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each one more caustic than the last. He accused the
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bill of increasing the deficit to two point five trillion
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dollars and burdening American citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt. He
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warned that in November, we fire all politicians who betrayed
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the American people. The posts ricocheted through Washington like gunshots.
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Republican deficit. Hawks like Thomas Massey and Mike Lee rallied
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to Musk's side. Democrats gleefully amplified his criticism. House Minority
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Leader Hakeem Jeffries stood beside a poster sized print out
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of Musk's post during a Capitol Hill press conference, saying
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we're in complete agreement. House Speaker Mike Johnson tried damage control,
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calling Musk personally for a twenty minute conversation. With all
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due respect, my friend Elon is terribly wrong about the
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one big Beautiful Bill, Johnson told reporters afterward. Elon is
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missing it, okay, But Johnson's explanation revealed the deeper truth.
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I know the evy mandate is very important to him.
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That is going away because the gun should not be
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subsidizing these things as part of the Green New Deal,
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and I know that has an effect on his business.
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And I lament that it wasn't about fiscal responsibility, it
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was about business interests. Trump was taking away subsidies that
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benefited Musk's companies, and Musk was fighting back. The White
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House tried to frame Musk's criticism as sour grapes. Administration
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officials whispered to reporters that Musk was but hurt about
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losing influence. They suggested he was acting out because he
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missed being at the center of power. But Musk's anger
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was building towards something much more dangerous than policy criticism.
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He was starting to question not just Trump's decisions, but
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his character act for the point of no return twenty
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eight hours, Trump stayed silent. He'd weathered Musk's criticism before.
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This seemed like just another tantrum from his mercurial former ally.
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The White House continued pushing the line that this was
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a temporary disagreement between friends, but behind the scenes, Trump
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was seething. He'd given Musk unprecedented access to government power,
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defended him against protesters and critics, even turned the White
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House into a Tesla showroom, and this was how Musk
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repaid him by publicly sabotaging his signature legislation. Trump began
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working the phones, calling advisers and asking how Musk's attacks
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were playing in the media. Chief of Staff Susie Wiles,
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who'd grown increasingly frustrated with Musk's clashes with other administration officials,
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saw an opportunity to push the billionaire fully out of
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Trump's orbit. The breaking point came on Thursday, June fifth,
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during what should have been a roote team meeting with
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German Chancellor Friedrich Meritz. Reporters asked Trump about Musk's criticism,
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and for the first time, the President let his real
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feelings show. I'm very disappointed because Elon knew the inner
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workings of this bill, Trump said, his voice tight with anger.
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I'm very disappointed in Elon. I've helped elon a lot.
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Trump went on to suggest that Musk was only criticizing
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the bill because it eliminated subsidies for his electric vehicle business.
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People leave my administration and they love us, and at
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some point they miss it so badly. Some of them
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embrace it, and some of them actually become hostile. I
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don't know what it is. It is sort of Trump
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derangement syndrome. I guess they call it. It was a
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devastating public dressing down of the man Trump had once
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called his first buddy, but it was also factually wrong.
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Trump claimed Musk had known about that bill's details and
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never had a problem until right after he left. Musk
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was watching the press conference in real time, and Trump's
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comments sent him into a rage. He immediately fired back
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on x false. This bill was never shown to me
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even once, and was passed in the dead of night,
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so fast that almost no one in Congress could even
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read it. But Musk wasn't done. In rapid succession, he
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posted that Trump would have lost the election without his help.
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He shared posts calling for Trump's impeachment. He attacked Trump's
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tariff policies, predicting they would cause a recession in the
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second half of this year, and then, in the most
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explosive post of all, he dropped a claim that stunned Washington.
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Time to drop the really big bomb that Trump is
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in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they
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have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT.
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The alliance was dead. In its place was something much
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more dangerous, a war between two men who knew each
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other's secrets and had no intention of backing down epilogue
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when allies become enemies. What we witnessed in those seven
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days from May thirtieth to June fifth wasn't just a
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political disagreement or a policy dispute. It was the complete
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breakdown of trust between two of the most powerful people
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on Earth. Musk had entered government believing he could reshape
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America from the inside, only to discover that Trump valued
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loyalty over expertise, politics over policy, and personal relationships over principles.
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The man who'd promised to drain the swamp was playing
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the same old Washington games of favor trading and score settling.
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Trump meanwhile, had given Musk unpreseded access to power, only
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to watch him clash with cabinet members, failed to deliver
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promised savings, and ultimately turn against the administration's signature achievement.
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The billionaire he'd welcomed as a partner had become a
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liability and now an enemy. The personal dynamics were just
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