Trump II's first public breakup took place before our eyes this afternoon – a moment of pinching for those of us who have long been waiting for this exact extension.
You have now seen the reports of the confrontation of the very public ego between the richest man in the world and a man who is president but, until recently, barely a billionaire. The Donald Trump-Elon Musk Imbroglio started earlier this week and culminated this afternoon with Trump threatening to tear the contracts of the Musk government and with Musk suggesting that the reason for the release of Jeffrey Epstein's files was so unsatisfactory for Maga Conspiracy Theores is because these files were not published in their entity, their entity, Because these files were not published in their entity, their entity, for the Maga Conspiracy Theores is because these files were not published in their entity, their entity, Because they mention some person.
Although there may still be something in the initial impression that the whole quarrel is false – to help Tesla's stocks in the fall of Elon – Epstein allegations are not exactly the type of public accusation which can be carefully entered in a box. Since the day Elon has made its raw jump in the air behind Trump on stage during this October gathering, we all all of us follow these kinds of things that we know that this day we would find soon. It is a kind of law of nature, or at least of the Maga world. If you have missed one of the quarrels, here is a sample of everyone's key public remarks in the past hours.
Trump's compliments and threats in Trump back
- “Elon and I had an excellent relationship. I don't know if we want it,” said Trump from the oval office.
- “The simplest way to save money in our budget, billions and billions of dollars, is to terminate the subsidies and government contracts from Elon,” wrote on Social truth. “I have always been surprised that Biden did not do it!”
- “I'm going to be honest, I think he missed the place,” said Trump, once again from the oval office. “He went out there, and all of a sudden, he was not in this magnificent oval office.”
- Commenting on Elon's curious eye last week, Trump said: “I said:” Do you want a little makeup? We will make you a little makeup. “What is interesting.
Elon remarks (all published on X, the platform which was pleasant before Elon ruined it)
- “Even those in Congress who had to vote on the major ugly expenditure bill had time to read it!”
- “Without me, Trump would have lost the elections, the DEMS would control the room and the Republicans would be 51 to 49 years old in the Senate. Such ingratitude ”
- “It's time to drop the very large bomb: @Realdonaldtrump is in Epstein files. This is the real reason why they were not made public. Have a good day, DJT!
- “In the light of the president's declaration on the cancellation of my government contracts, @Spacex will immediately start her dragon spaceship »
- “Yes” (tweeted in response to a position suggesting that Trump should be dismissed and replaced by Vice-President JD Vance.
- He completed the afternoon by publishing a survey on the creation of a third party: “Is it time to create a new political party in America which really represents 80% in the middle?”
Trump loses a weapon
This implosion started a few moments after Musk left the Trump administration, which was announced with a large theater and involved a mysterious key, The Black Eye and Trump insisting that Musk did not really leave. Musk quickly started criticizing the expense package that has just passed the room and the Senate took into account this week. The bill, of course, includes devastating and fatal cuts in Medicaid, makes Trump tax reductions for the rich permanents and will ultimately add billions of billions to the deficit.
But there is a more fleshy problem at the heart of the rupture that we have all seen coming. A few months ago, Trump worked as a majority whip of the pseudo, trying to convince these republicans of the Chamber upset by the fact that the budgetary bill was not going far enough to reduce what they judged the unnecessary federal expenses. At the time, Trump asked members of the Republican conference not to be too much taken in detail. He promised that, just because some things are financed at certain levels of the plan or in the possible bill, this does not guarantee that Elon will not come with his Slandrammer Doge and do not close the expenses authorized to the Congress in the future. Do not worry, we will not respect the authority of the legislative management in the first place, essentially.
Trump used the same line of rhetorical violation of the law on the control of detention when the members of the Caucus of Talking House Freedom Caucus of a edge last month, before finally voting for the bill which is now with the Senate.
Implicit in this case, with Musk, the heaps of Musk silver, and his desire to fight a political fight on burnt earth by pouring this money, in various legal ways, in key races – and threatening to support primary challengers for those who do not comply with the Trump agenda. But the capital loss of the candidate supported by muscles in a race of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin earlier this year, this impression of invincibility, and it now seems that Musk's political fire power will certainly not come with Trump anytime.
What this means for the intra-republican political dynamic while the party tries to negotiate its massive expenditure package and the Greenlight Doge cuts through a pack of attractions remain to be seen.
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