Who could have seen this coming, except anybody who is not a co-host of the All In podcast? On Thursday, the long anticipated fallout between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk exploded via their respective social media platforms.
Only one week ago, a visibly “distracted” Musk stood behind Trump in the Oval Office to announce his amicable departure from federal government, leaving a trail of gutted federal agencies and dead kids in his wake. But with Musk’s unexplained black eye, Stephen Miller’s wife suddenly giving up her White House post to go work for Elon, and insider sourcing on Musk’s rampant drug usage, evidence mounted that not all was well behind the scenes for the former besties.
On Tuesday, the charade began to crumble when Elon Musk tweeted his criticism of the Republican spending bill, quite literally titled the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
It was never going to end there. In a Thursday Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Trump accused Musk of sour grapes about the roll back of EV subsidies in the spending bill; Musk, adherent to government process that he is, disagreed with Trump on procedural grounds.
From there, we were off to the races.
Elon dialed the feud up to 11 when he accused Trump of being in the Epstein files… hardly the most reliable narrator but, also, does anybody doubt that he is?
Throughout the afternoon and into the evening, Tesla’s stock plummeted.
Of course, Tesla is hardly the only corporation in which Trump has a financial interest. After Trump threatened to cancel SpaceX’s government contracts, Musk immediately responded that SpaceX would decommission its Dragon spacecraft. Fortunately, @Fab25june stepped in, and cooler heads prevailed.
Perhaps the most remarkable outcome of this entire episode is that Musk achieved what even Operation Warp Speed could not: libs rooting for Donald Trump.
Of course, Trump doesn’t just have posting on his side; he also brings the power of the federal government backed by a complete moral depravity, a dangerous combination if you’re Elon Musk.
Steve Bannon, welcome to the resistance.
And, speaking of Bannon, the unholy alliance between the national MAGA right and libertarian tech right was doomed from the start. But this dramatic blow up leaves the avatars of that movement, the co-hosts of the All In podcast, in quite the pickle! Which Way, Western Men?
Though he’s notorious for posting through it, Vice President JD Vance was notably constrained in his remarks, trying as he always does to act like the crash out of the century is no big deal.
Ye, in contrast, did not hide his disappointment about the split.
Continued in Part 2.
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