Mad men, Brunswick Beacon

Brunswick Beacon, 06.12.25

The bromance between Musk and Trump is over. 

Musk spent $275 million electing Trump, who repaid Musk by giving him DOGE. Musk cut research funding for kids with cancer. He tried to fire air traffic controllers during a spate of plane crashes. His “armed” takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace (think about that) was overturned by a judge who called it “unlawful” and a “gross usurpation of power through blunt force.”

On May 30, Musk visited the Oval Office. Although DOGE never came close to delivering the $1 trillion savings Musk promised, Trump praised Musk and gave him a fake gold key to the White House.

Four days later, Musk attacked Trump’s “We’re All Going to Die” bill, so-called because that was Republican Senator Joni Ernst’s response when told that its Medicaid cuts will kill people. “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk wrote. “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.”

Trump said Musk “went crazy” because it cut subsidies for electric vehicles. He claimed Musk knew what was in it. Musk called that ““False, this bill was never shown to me even once and was passed in the dead of night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it! Trump would have lost the election” without him. He said Trump should be impeached and asked, “Was he replaced by a body double!?”

Trump killed the nomination of Musk’s pick to head NASA and threatened to “terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts.” Musk threatened to stop launching American astronauts. He said Trump’s tariffs will cause a recession. 

Musk said Trump “is in the Epstein files,” referring to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who provided his friends with underage girls. “That is the real reason they have not been made public.” 

Musk and Trump are equally venomous. Like scorpions in a jar, they were bound to turn on each other.

Larry Widman

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