Source: The American Prospect
by Ryan Cooper
“I had been wondering if Elon Musk and Donald Trump would have a falling out. Two ultra-wealthy, ultra-corrupt, terminally online, megalomaniacal narcissists do not tend to make reliable partners. Augustus and Agrippa they are not. Yet until this week, they seemed to at least maintain a cordial front. At the time of writing Thursday evening, the sequence of events went something like this. On Tuesday, Musk posted on Twitter/X that Trump’s enormous reconciliation bill was ‘massive, outrageous, pork-filled’ and ‘a disgusting abomination’ that would jack up the budget deficit. On Thursday, Musk pressed the attack, complaining about the ‘MOUNTAIN of DISGUSTING PORK in the bill,’ and whining that he had bought the government fair and square. ‘Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate,’ he posted. ‘Such ingratitude.'” (06/06/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-06-06-elon-musk-donald-trump-feud/