Former adviser taunts president over links to Epstein while Trump threatens to cancel contracts for Musk companies
Elon Musk called for Donald Trump to be impeached after mocking his connections to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as the president threatened to cancel federal contracts and tax subsidies for Musk’s companies in an extraordinary social media feud on Thursday.
The deterioration of their once close relationship into bitter acrimony came over the course of several remarkable hours during which the president and the world’s richest man hurled deeply personal insults over matters significant and insignificant.
In the most churlish moment of the astonishing saga, Musk said on X the reason the Trump administration had not released the files into Epstein was because they implicated the president. He later quote-tweeted a post calling for Trump to be removed and said Trump’s tariffs would cause a recession.
Is there anything more Pride Month than Conservatives having to watch their two daddies fight?
I know I’m feeling proud the Tesla brand took such a nosedive
Elon’s going to lose this fight. All the other rich people backing Trump still think the snake won’t bite them, and Elon doesn’t have the same cult of personality Trump does. He had some good will for a while, but he’s been burning that ever since the weird pedo guy thing, and that’s nowhere near Trump’s fucking cult energy. Forty years from now there’s still going to be dumbasses and edgy teens talking about how they heard a rumor that Trump is still alive out there in the wastes that used to be middle America.
Elon doesn’t have the same cult of personality Trump does
He used to, but then he started associating with Trump.
It seems he wasn’t aware that his cult following came from the other end of the political spectrum.
Well, not quite the other end, but environmentally inclined business friendly liberals are still not quite Trump’s crowd.
He really used to - remember all the iron man shit? The image of the benevolent billionaire who was going to open up space? I’m ashamed to admit I was tempted to believe too.
He lost the positive public image before he started associating with trump tho. I think what happened was he fired his PR team because he thought he could do better himself. Right around the time he got pissy and was calling that cave diver a pedo, the guy who saved a bunch of kids in Thailand. It was all downhill from there and I don’t remember ever seeing anyone piss away so much public goodwill so quickly.
Im gonna be honest, I never bought into the whole Phony Stark persona but I did but him at the same level as Bill Gates, (no such thing as a good billionare, but he’s doing SOME good things with his ill gotten gains).
The dudes brain is fucking fried for sure now. If he hadn’t hurt so many people, id almost feel bad for him.
But they did impeach him, Leon. Multiple times. The trouble is he just ignores it.
He ignores it because 95% of Republicans don’t care about crimes, just the party.
Maybe this time a strongly worded reprimand would do the trick.
Impeached from the House sets up for conviction from the Senate. We need all of Congress to go through for it to have any effect.
He’s trying to distance himself because his company is burning and is using the media. Musk’s playbook is to attention and boost himself like posting about dogecoin. Musk is using the media, but his Nazi views hasn’t changed.
Hahaha love it!
Fascist infighting is always fun to watch
It’s not tho. This is, difficult as it is to say, America’s leadership. It’s disgusting, humiliating, and dangerous.
Its the inevitability and hoeplessness that makes it funny to me. I know this country will never get better, so I will enjoy the death of an empire I have learned to hate while I can.
It was inevitable. Two egos as big as theirs cannot coexist in close proximity indefinitely.
It’s actually very possible, but only if it’s two large and healthy egos.
Theirs are anything but healthy
I was a psychologist until I got burned out.
During that time I observed something countless times that is counter-intuitive but in my anecdotal experience reliably true:
Narcissists like eachother and seem to bond effortlessly. “you’re the best thing ever? Holy shit, I’m the best thing ever! We’re so amazing it’s awesome!” type thing. It’s fascinating.
That’s why I’m not going to be played by this. Elon and Donald both have something significant to gain by pretending to “break up with” Each other, Elon trying to detoxify his brand especially internationally and Donald by proving he isn’t Elon’s bitchboy.
They might be legitimately warring in public, they might be playing the media and the people, there’s really no way for outside parties to know at this time, and I wish people would pay more attention to the people Trump is hurting than this ultimately pointless real or not catfight. Invoking Epstein is low hanging fruit, as anyone who isn’t in Trump’s cult and paying any attention has been aware Trump is an Epstein pedo for years and years.
My theory is they want it to impact Tesla stock negatively, then magically over the weekend or at some point, they kiss and make up and the EV credit gets added back into the bill and they profit massively from buying the dip.
hee hee
I hate to be a Debby Downer, but the headline is a bit sensationalist. This is how Elon “called for Donal Trump to be impeached”:
That’s it. He wrote “Yes”.
But that doesn’t bring in the clicks. And really, that’s all we care about, right?
And?
I don’t think that’s sensationalist at all. It’s a pretty direct and clear call for impeachment.
But I’d rather talk about that original Tweet. Obviously, Trump being impeached (and convicted by the Senate) would result in Vance replacing him; that’s how it works. But the choice to specifically highlight the Vance part of it implies not just a desire for Trump to be gone, but for Vance specifically to be in. Which is wild. I can’t imagine any human on earth actually being pro-Vance. There’s the sane people, who oppose the entire administration, and there’s the Magats who are rabidly pro-Trump. Who exactly supports Trump’s diet lacky?
Vance represents the tech bro “libertatian” wing with Thiel and those ghouls. Musk fits right in.
Vance was placed there with the objective to replace Trump eventually. These guys don’t need Trump any more, but like the industrials underestimated Hitler when they put him into power, Thiel and co are probably underestimating Trump’s shrewdness. He will burn everything down before he’ll be put out of power.
Anyone with any stock in big eyeliner obviously. There are tens of us!
I wonder if Musk will get the Jack Ma treatment or if Trump is a weak baby leader that isn’t as strong as Xi. Imagine the Republican party being weaker than the CCP.
Elon could easily buy enough of the Senate to have Individual 1 removed at long last.
JD Vance is VERY silent right now, so I’m thinking this could all just be fake, and that the tech bros (led by Peter Thiel) are using all this drama to get JD Vance into the Oval Office. I don’t think this is a legit fight…I think this is all part of their long term plan.
There you go. Ignore the content of the screeching and look at what it’s trying to accomplish.
You know what would also get a lot more Teslas sold in a correctly Trump hating world, and partially decouple Trump from the political fallout of the DOGE mess?
Exactly what’s happening.
How fucking stupid do you have to be to think JD Vance is the next best thing?
Oh wait… yep you’re fucked america
Well yeah, JD is great. He did things like… Gang up on Zelensky, so he’s got the general Maga crowd s vote and he killed the pope, so now he’s got the entire non-catholic Christian vote. Pretty solid.
Musk wants his money back! I’d vote to let him return his purchase in this case.
250m for the opportunity to burn the wealthiest country in the world to the grouns? That was a one-time offer with an obvious no-return policy.
Yeah what about all of the endorsements and support?
“[They] detested each other. Which makes sense, because they were both detestable.”
Gen. Sir Harry Padgett Flashman, VC
