President Donald Trump and his greatest political supporter Elon Musk go out in the most public and 21st century way – through their own social networks. And although many predicted that the Trump-MUSK couple would eventually acidify, it is still worth asking and trying to answer: “How did we come here?”
Until recently, Musk was a key figure in the inner circle of Trump. The connection has influenced the broad parts of the government, in particular by the ‘Department of Government Efficiency’, an organization founded by an executive order and is advised by Musk.
Musk, once a match in the Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida and the White House, has now turned against the president. The source of his dissatisfaction: the A big beautiful Bill -ActA piece of legislation of 1,038 pages that was adopted on 22 May by the House of Representatives. It is now going to the Senate, the next step in the path of the bill to become a law.
Days later, Trump withdrew his appointment of Jared Isaacman, Musk’s Pick to lead NASA – a movement that is generally seen as proof of their faltering relationship. But even until the end of the month, Trump and Musk played publicly fun.
The mood shifted this week – on a public, scorched earth – this week.
“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk written On X on Tuesday. “This huge, shameful, pork -filled bill for congress is a disgusting horror. Shame about those who voted for it: you know you’ve done it wrong. You know.”
The bill is presented as an attempt to lower taxes and invest in American companies. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates That although the bill will lower taxes by $ 3.7 trillion, this will increase the national debt by $ 2.4 trillion and absorbs the debt ceiling of the country by $ 4 trillion. This impact on the existing debt crisis of the country has two Republican senators, Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ron Johnson (R-Wi) who break out of the attitude of their party against the bill In his current state.
The effects of the bill are huge; Under many other effects, the taxes of income removes from social security, tips and overtime. The bill also makes enormous cuts on federal health care programs such as Medicaid and Snap. The CBO estimates that by making mass cuts on federal health care programs, almost 11 million More people will miss health insurance by 2034.
However, the bill would also make the effects of the tax cuts and jobs of Trump from his first term, Have found economists That these cutbacks benefited more for the richest Americans than the poorest. Extra tax cuts are also expected in the new account of Trump benefit rich families More than that in need.
Musk is not wrong when he says that some representatives who voted for the bill already regret it. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) admitted that she had not read the bill of a thousand pages at all and regrets it approves Because it prevents individual states from regulating the following decade AI.
The dispute between Trump and Musk continued on Thursday, when the president was asked about the rejection of the Tesla and SpaceX leader of the bill.
Trump claims that Musk was Deto Known with his plans for the bill, but recovered when he heard that it would negatively influence his company.
“He only developed a problem when he discovered that we should reduce the EV mandate,” said Trump, referring to policy that stimulates the production and sale of electric vehicles, as Tesla makes. “That is billions and billions of dollars.”
Musk also claimed that Trump only won the elections because of his help.
“Without me Trump would have lost the elections, DEMS would control the house and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate,” said Musk on X.
The two entrepreneurs continued to poke their respective social media platforms – and escalates.
“Elon was” thin “, I asked him to leave, I removed his EV mandate that everyone forced to buy electric cars that nobody else wanted (who he knew for months I was going to do!), And he just went crazy!” Trump wrote about Truth Social.
In another message, Trump added“The easiest way to save money in our budget, billions and billions of dollars is to end Elon’s government subsidies and contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t work!”
Musk posted A screenshot of Trump’s post and added that he would dismantle the Dragon SpaceCraft of SpaceX as a result of the president’s statement.
Musk continued with a tirade of posts on X against the president he spent $ 288 million To help choose. Musk then accused Trump of the part of the Epstein files, referring to the sexual exploitation of the financier Jeffrey Epstein of children. Trump did not respond to the statement.
Musk too indicated That the Trump rates will cause a recession in the second half of this year, and he posted in accordance with the message from another user and said that Trump must be dropped off.
While the public fight has launched hectic levels of posts on X, Popcorn Emojis and Memes in which it is stated that ‘the girls are fighting’, the consequences between the world’s richest person and a sitting US president promises to have broader implications for the technical industry.
Following Trump’s leadership, other tech billionaires such as Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sunday Pichai, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, OpenAi CEO Sam Altman and Apple CEO Tim Cook donated to Trump’s Inauguration Fund. Trump’s policy has already had negative consequences for some of these companies of these companies by enforcing serious rates for international import.
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