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Elon Musk has one Loud campaign against Donald Trumps “Great, beautiful” reconciliation law. And describes the cornerstone of the president’s legislative agenda as “disgusting hideousness” while he tries to mobilize senators in order to vote against it.
Trump reacts angry to Musk’s criticism
Trump is anything but pleased. The President replied extensively on Musk’s resistance to the law on Thursday when he spoke to reporters in the Oval Office. He criticized the former head of his so -called “Department of Government Efficiency” (Doge), who officially left the government last week. “I am very disappointed with Elon,” said Trump. “I helped Elon a lot.”
Trump added that Musk only got a problem with the law after leaving the government. And indicated that the richest man in the world may have developed the so -called Trump derangement Syndrome. “He is not the first. People leave my government. And they love us. And then at some point they miss it so much,” said Trump. “Some accept it. And some actually become hostile. I don’t know why. It is probably this Trump of the Syndromes, as you call it. We see it too. They go, wake up in the morning, and the glamor is gone. And the world is very different. They become hostile.”
Musk strikes back with an accusation of epstein
Musk tightened his criticism of the law, which provides for massive cuts in social benefits such as Medicaid to finance tax relief for rich. He wrote on X that the “massive, outrageous expenditure law of the congress, which is stuffed with pork, is a disgusting hideousness”. Musk seems to be upset that the law is expected to add trillions to the national deficit. However, some, including the spokesman for the House of Representatives Mike Johnson (R-La.), Sure that he is in truth that the law will delete tax benefits for electric vehicles. From which his company benefited Tesla.
Trump even raised the allegation on Thursday. “Elon knew the internal processes of this law better than almost everyone here in the room,” said the president. And added, “he only had a problem when he learned that we had to shorten the EV requirements”.
Musk reacted in real time to Trump via X in an hourly attack on his former BFF. “Forny, this law was never even shown me once. And was said goodbye so quickly in the middle of the night that hardly anyone in the congress could read it!” He wrote.
Musk calls law “disgusting” and continues to confront the confrontation
“Anyway,” added Musk. “Let the cuts of EV/solar funding in the law, although no oil and gas subsidies are touched (very unfair !!). But stroke the mountain of disgusting pork from the law. In the entire history of civilization there has never been a law that is both big and beautiful. Everyone knows that!
Then Musk Trump met where it hurts. “Without me, Trump would have lost the choice. The Democrats would control the House of Representatives. And the Republicans would have 51-49 seats in the Senate,” he wrote. “So much ungratefulness,” he added before continuing his rant via Trump and the law all Thursday afternoon. Musk even went so far to call Trump a pedophile. “Time to let the really big bomb burst: @Raldonaldtrump is in the Epstein files,” he wrote. “That is the real reason why they were not published. Have a nice day, DJT!”
Trump responded to Truth Social with the name Musks as “crazy!” And the threat of “terminating” government contracts.
The fully flared feud between Trump and Musk comes less than a week after the two praised each other during a farewell press conference for Musk in the Oval Office. “Elon’s service for America is incomparable in modern history,” said Trump at the time. And emphasized that he “actually doesn’t work at all”.
After Thursday you can certainly say: Musk will soon not appear again in the Oval Office.