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Posted on 06/06/2025 7:16:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
White House insiders told the Daily Caller Thursday that the snubbing of Elon Musk’s NASA pick was the final straw after months of friction between he and the Trump White House.
After Musk publicly criticized Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” for days, Trump finally alleged the former head of DOGE has Trump Derangement Syndrome. Then the floodgates opened: Musk called for the president’s impeachment and alleged his former boss is in the Epstein Files.
White House insiders told the Caller Musk had been over-asking and trying to act like a second president. He was being told no a lot, something that caused him to become increasingly irritable over time.
Some of those big asks were for specific leaders at the IRS, CIA, and perhaps most notably, NASA. Days before the public implosion, Trump withdrew the nomination of Jared Isaacman, a Musk ally, to run the agency. Sources told the Caller that was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Musk regularly argued with Sergio Gor, director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office, over staffing. But he also feuded over policy issues.
He was kept out of the State Department by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his access was limited at the Pentagon, an official told the Caller.
In March, the New York Times reported that Musk would receive a briefing at the Pentagon on the military’s plans if a war broke out with China, which was later denied by the administration.
For several weeks leading up to the briefing, Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers were active in the Pentagon, a source familiar told the Caller. But following the news of the briefing, which apparently caused significant strife between Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the DOGE staffers mostly dispersed.
“This has been simmering for awhile… no one at the White House likes Elon and while some people like DOGE, no one likes the DOGE monkey minions running around,” one senior Trump administration official told the Caller.
In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately pic.twitter.com/NG9sijjkgW
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 5, 2025
“The way he’s going out is symptomatic of his habits because it’s quite bizarre,” one senior Trump administration official said.
After Trump told reporters that Musk is upset over EV tax credits being left out of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” Musk repeatedly took to X to say that the president was lying.
Despite Musk’s public opposition to EV tax credits and insistence he did not want them in the bill, a senior Congressional source told the Caller Musk did ask Speaker Mike Johnson to include the credits in the Big Beautiful Bill.
Meanwhile, DOGE staffers are being told to conduct “business as usual.”
“I just got to doge HQ. I’m the last man here. The place cleared out as a precaution,” one told the Caller.
Similarly, a White House official told the Caller that they are still very focused on passing Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” and that Musk’s meltdown would not be a distraction to their mission. The official added that Trump always knew Musk’s feeling on the bill and that it was “unfortunate that Elon has spiraled out this way.” (RELATED: ‘Tough Call’: Daily Caller Reporter Appears To Stump Elon Musk With Question)
A few weeks ago, one staffer sensed something was wrong, or that a blowup may be coming.
Musk was standing alone outside of the White House. The staffer took the opportunity to praise him for his work within the government.
Musk muttered a thank you. He looked dejected. Sad. The staffer was worried.
“What was going on here?” the staffer wondered. A few weeks later, the whole world would find out.
Amber Duke contributed to this report.
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Getting a Dem ally in to steer more business to Musk. Probably more of a dealbreaker and more valuable than stopping the EV mandates.
Slimeball:
“Despite Musk’s public opposition to EV tax credits and insistence he did not want them in the bill, a senior Congressional source told the Caller Musk did ask Speaker Mike Johnson to include the credits in the Big Beautiful Bill.”
I hope he dies broke.
Time will tell. I’m not buying it yet. Musk has been building and selling Texas in the US without the $7500 credit and no loss of demand.
Meh, nobody lass forever in that kind of position. It was a good run.
This “story “ reads like someone’s fictional account because it probably is
It’s true that Elon has an incredibly complex brain. his wealth and accomplishments bear witness to this fact.
However, he is almost child-Ike in some areas: like relationships for an example.
I believe that he has few truly close friends and when he and DJT came together it became an attraction that was almost childlike.
Patch it up and with some reservations move on.
D something significant about the Bloated Big Beautiful
Billl and for got sakes don’t allow ank ounce of pork in it!
This article seems fairly accurate to me.
It takes an enormous amount of energy to do what Elon Musk has done. But with that much energy comes significant risk of instability. Frankly, he should spend more time with his kids.
As far as I know, Musk’s wealth initially came from EVs thanks to the government push for it.
I presume now, his access to Trump was secretly a way to get more biz benefit from the gov. I’m glad Trump disappointed him in this regard and take two important points from this:
1) It should be heralded to the rooftops that Trump, as the “non-politician”, did not feel obligated to someone who contributed bigly to his campaign efforts, unlike EVERYONE in Congress who are beholden to their funding sources to the detriment of the ordinary citizen. E.g., want to know why the Dems can’t give up the fag stuff? Big fag donors, that’s why.
2) In spite of the public petulance, Musk probably does share a lot of beliefs with the MAGA movement authentically so does not deserve to be heavily chastised.
I still think this is all staged to either:
1) Distract from something else or
2) To get people to take the bait to ask for something, such as Dems now clamoring for the Epstein files to be released, and then to comply with exactly that resulting in devastation to the other side.
Once whatever the need to cover or bait and switch is over - they’ll be back to working together for the future.
Mush is showing himself to be very unstable.
Musk is wired differently than most. Probably a good thing that this happened.
Pray on it. All we can do.
He didn't start Tesla. Musk was a billionaire before Tesla. He and another man co-founder Pay-Pal.....................
He is childish. Always and forever.
Musk was already a billionaire when he acquired Tesla. Zip2, x.com bank, PayPal, and SpaceX were before Tesla.
“insiders”; “White House officials”
The Boards of Directors of Elon’s companies should vote and put him on mandatory leave for drug testing and a full psych exam and report back to the BODs.
He probably needs a 6 month rehab/and sabbatical away from the civilized world and VERY limited access, especially the internet.
I’m with you. I’m a big proponent of “slow to anger” when trying to figure out something like this. It’s because we both know we are not really getting the whole story. Let’s see how it falls out.
Agree, what he did was simply unacceptable, period.
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