Posted on 06/04/2025 9:39:37 PM PDT by RandFan
THE SHOW MUSK GO ON: President Donald Trump will host a vast “summer soiree” on the White House lawn this evening to celebrate thousands of political appointments to his government. But it’s one absent — and now very much former — political appointee who will dominate the conversation there and across Washington today. Elon Musk’s DOGE days might be behind him, but the world’s richest man still has the power to blow up U.S. politics with a single X post like few others can. And yesterday, he really went to town.
A single post? You probably stopped counting, but Musk offered up 13 different X posts and reposts over a six-hour period, tearing into the GOP’s “disgusting” tax-and-spend legislation which he fears is “bankrupting America.” And he took direct aim at Hill Republicans who have shown support. “Shame on those who voted for it,” Musk wrote. “You know you did wrong.” He was at it again in the wee hours this morning.
So how’s Trump feeling? There’s been nothing about Musk on Truth Social so far, and Trump hasn’t done media in days. It's possible he’ll engage with the press at tonight’s White House lawn shindig, but it’s hard to imagine a public falling-out with Musk. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was unflappable when ambushed with Musk’s comments during her briefing yesterday. “The president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill,” she said, without missing a beat. “It doesn’t change the president’s opinion.”
But inside the White House … All is not well, my POLITICO colleagues Adam Wren, Adam Cancryn and Dasha Burns revealed last night. “The West Wing is perplexed, unenthused, and disappointed” with Musk, one White House official tells Dasha. A careful briefing operation is now underway via Republicans close to the White House — not a push to denigrate Musk per se, but rather to frame his opposition to the bill as what you might call principled self-interest.
Follow the money: “When businessmen criticize legislation, journalists don’t take them at their word,” a Republican close to the White House told POLITICO. “They look at how the legislation would impact their business interests. They should be doing that in this case.” Tesla, after all, was one of the beneficiaries of the Biden-era EV support package, which the “big, beautiful bill” strips away, as Axios’ Marc Caputo noted yesterday.
Mike on message: Speaker Mike Johnson was quick out of the blocks with this exact argument yesterday, and you can expect to hear it plenty more from Republicans allied with Trump. “It's not personal,” Johnson said. “I know that the EV mandate [is] very important to [Musk] — that’s going away, because the government should not be subsidizing these things as part of the Green New Deal … And I know that has an effect on his business, and I lament that.”
The $421 billion question: Will Musk respond to suggestions his criticisms are self-serving? And what will he do next? By far the most interesting of his stream of X posts yesterday was the one carrying an implicit threat to parts of the GOP. “In November next year,” Musk wrote, “we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people.” Musk clearly has the wealth and influence to be a huge player in the midterms — or indeed in GOP primaries — if he wants to. Hill Republicans up for reelection will be watching with bated breath.
Musk is being pushed away. I doubt he will defect to the DemocRATs but he might get involved in GOP primaries which wouldn't be a bad thing.
I'm hoping he bankrolls Rand Paul for president (don't laugh). He's been re-tweeting and conversing with him.
MUSK IS HIS OWN MAN
HE & RAND WOULD NEVER BE FRIENDS
Elon needs to be pushed away to the fringes.
He’s a provable pathological liar and surrounded by freaks and goblins.
It appears he’s mad because he underestimated his ability to influence the admin to keep the Tesla credits. Per reports he tried hard and failed. Now, after lying to the administration and the public about how much money he could save—down from 2 trillion to 150 billion (or was it 150 million?), he’s just trying to sabotage the entire bill to save his tax credits.
He needs them because his sales have plummeted worldwide. He was only profitable last quarter because of carbon credits.
Overestimated, not underestimated!**
That’s a disgusting smear he doesn’t care about that he cares about his country being solvent
Yeah, the guy whose company is staying afloat due to tax credits, who spent 2 million dollars to impregnate some slut on twitter (and allegedly has impregnated women from across the world with similar deals), who blows up 150 million dollar rockets over and over again, really cares about financial solvency.
Your smears and character assassination will not work
What about Rand Paul ? Ron Johnson ? Rick Scott? You’re going to attack them too ?
Anyone against the White House?
You’re a troll....
I for one, have missed out on some awesome camping at Boca Chica because of those blasted rockets (shakes fist).
/s
Seriously, great camping and not far away from some exotic game (not high-fence). Makes for a nice February.
Lots of assorted wild goats, sheep and ungulates, including Nilgai.
Somebody was telling me about a wild oryx down there. Had pics to prove it.
Axis deer yield more meat than a S.TX whitetail.
Looking at the pics it’s gemsbock. No eartags...thwack.
Paul will NEVER EVER be President.
Both you & Rand Paul are dreamers. With Ukraine's attack on Russia risking escalation to ignite WWIII, is proof that they are fighting back against Trump & his goals.
Is this Obama?
Vance will be the next President.
24 hours later and Elon is telling people Trump is in the Epstein files with no evidence lol.
You folks should have listened to me.
tl;rd: Musk is unhappy who cares...
Musk blew big time. He libel Donald Trump as a pedophile and said he should be impeached. He did this partly because he will be losing the many billions he makes each year in fake carbon credits.
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