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Trump and Musk enter bitter feud – and Washington buckles up

by mellosouls on 6/5/25, 9:28 PM with 19 comments

  • by floxy on 6/5/25, 10:21 PM

    Kayfabe? I mean, if anyone were to do something like this strictly for the lulz, its got to be these two jokers.

  • by JCattheATM on 6/5/25, 9:54 PM

    Whoever loses, America wins.

  • by insane_dreamer on 6/5/25, 10:39 PM

    Fun to watch this meltdown in realtime. It was always going to happen someday, didn't expect it to be this soon and this public.

    They act like two little kids. "Did you say thank you today?"

  • by lazystar on 6/6/25, 6:41 AM

    these two are masters of social media. occams razor suggests that they planned this in advance for some other purpose. my guess is theyre hoping this will cause tesla stock to rise.

  • by southernplaces7 on 6/6/25, 3:28 PM

    Gee, nobody could have predicted this coming. It's not like two utterly self-absorbed, narcissistic egomaniacs working together would ever, you know, normally have a falling out.

  • by GianFabien on 6/6/25, 12:47 AM

    "The Battle of the Egos" - grab the popcorn and beer.

    Why don't they do a cage fight challenge? Would be even better for TV ratings.

  • by southernplaces7 on 6/6/25, 5:03 PM

    In this case Musk should be careful if he cares about keeping what he has. It's Trump who, pun intended, holds all the trump cards. Musk can threaten some random expo of bad stuff about Trump but the president has been getting sprayed for years with his own shitty past activities and has pretty much built an entire persona of armour that lets them slide off like water from a duck's back. Trump's core of supporters loves him enough to not give a shit whatever new dirt they hear anyhow, while just about nobody, even among republican types, likes a socially unpleasant techbro on steroids like Musk.

    Legally too, Trump can absolutely hammer even someone as rich as Musk with all kinds of tools through his FCC, FTC, AG's office and Justice Department. Musk can... tweet about how angry he is and share a document or two. Hardly a good balance of competing powers. There are the vital SpaceX tech contracts working in Musk's favor, but they're not an insurmountable problem for the notably reckless Trump admin.

  • by jfengel on 6/6/25, 6:18 PM

    Musk posted: "The Trump tariffs will cause a recession in the second half of this year."

    Uh, we are almost certainly already in a recession. The tariffs will almost certainly exacerbate it, but just the fear of them is reducing GDP right now.

  • by belter on 6/5/25, 9:53 PM

    "Musk calls for Trump's impeachment" - https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/musk-trump-impeachment