The gayest event of the month." Media about the quarrel between Trump and Musk

The quarrel between Trump and Musk caused a lot of interest in the world. Here is what the media write about the conflict.

✒️ New York Times

Social media has been flooded with memes depicting Trump and Musk as a divorced couple sharing custody of their child, JD Vance, or two monkeys engaged in a knife fight surrounded by cheering onlookers — a scene from a 2000 episode of The Simpsons.

Others laughed at the breakdown in the relationship between the two men, which coincided with the start of LGBT Pride Month:

"This messy breakup between Trump and Musk is the most gay event of Pride Month."

✒️New York Post

The Trump-Musk feud is similar to an episode of the reality show only with less emotionally stable people.

✒️The Washington Post

The alliance between President Trump and Musk effectively collapsed, turning into mutual public trolling.

#Trump #Musk #Scandal

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Former adviser to Donald Trump Stephen Bannon, who never returned to the White House, calls for the cancellation of all state contracts of Musk's companies, to investigate his drug use and deport him from the United States, recognizing him as an illegal migrant.

#Musk #Bannon

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💔Multiple allies caught in the middle of the implosion between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk were delicately attempting to broker peace between the two men on Thursday when their quiet conversations were disrupted by a post on X.

💬“Time to drop the really big bomb: realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”

Musk wrote, stunning those with close relationships to Trump and Musk.

Several people familiar with what was happening behind the scenes — who were desperately making phone calls to one another and trying to tamp down the escalating feud — described that as the tipping point, fearing that there was no going back after Musk’s loaded accusation about the president regarding the so-called Epstein files.

While Trump and Musk had largely argued over policy, it had now turned personal.

Officials in the West Wing spent most of Thursday glued to their phones as they watched the battle between the two play out on X and Truth Social. Several aides were sending the updates in group chats, likening it to a divorce and commenting that they expected this would happen, just not this soon.

💬“I thought maybe August,”

one noted to CNN.

White House Press secretary Karoline Leavitt called Musk’s claims an “unfortunate episode” in a statement to CNN Thursday night.

💬“This is an unfortunate episode from Elon, who is unhappy with the One Big Beautiful Bill because it does not include the policies he wanted. The President is focused on passing this historic piece of legislation and making our country great again,”

Leavitt said.

Musk has not detailed how he would have gained access to unreleased files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and has not provided any evidence of where his information was coming from.

Tensions had been growing between the two billionaires throughout the week, as Musk, who recently departed the administration following a time-limited stint as a special government employee, railed against the Trump domestic agenda bill currently making its way through Congress.

But the feud reached new ruptures on social media on Thursday afternoon as Trump floated the termination of Musk’s business contracts with the government and Musk invoked Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.

💬“I don’t mind Elon turning against me, but he should have done so months ago,”

Trump said on his social platform, Truth Social, complaining about the fight emerging as his administration seeks to pass its policy bill.

Musk soon after called for Trump’s impeachment, threatened to decommission the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that returned NASA astronauts from the International Space Station and said the president’s tariffs would trigger a recession later in the year.

Late Thursday, however, he walked back the plans to decommission the Dragon spacecraft, after an X user encouraged the parties to “Cool off and take a step back for a couple days.”

💬“Good advice,”

the tech billionaire responded.

“Ok, we won’t decommission dragon.”

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman offered similar advice on X, writing:

💬“I support @ realDonaldTrump and @ elonmuskand they should make peace for the benefit of our great country. We are much stronger together than apart.”

💬“You’re not wrong,”

Musk responded.

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Tucker Carlson accused Fox News host Mark Levin of “lobbying for war” at the White House on Wednesday, before warning President Donald Trump that a strike on Iran would “end his presidency.”

💬“Mark Levin was at the White House today, lobbying for war with Iran,”

claimed Carlson in a social media post.

💬“To be clear, Levin has no plans to fight in this or any other war. He’s demanding that American troops do it.”

💬The former Fox News host continued:

We need to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons, he and likeminded ideologues in Washington are now arguing. They’re just weeks away.

If this sounds familiar, it’s because the same people have been making the same claim since at least the 1990s. It’s a lie. In fact, there is zero credible intelligence that suggests Iran is anywhere near building a bomb, or has plans to. None. Anyone who claims otherwise is ignorant or dishonest. If the US government knew Iran was weeks from possessing a nuclear weapon, we’d be at war already.

Iran knows this, which is why they aren’t building one. Iran also knows it’s unwise to give up its weapons program entirely. Muammar Gaddafi tried that and wound up sodomized with a bayonet. As soon as Gaddafi disarmed, NATO killed him. Iran’s leaders saw that happen. They learned the obvious lesson.

So why is Mark Levin once again hyperventilating about weapons of mass destruction? To distract you from the real goal, which is regime change — young Americans heading back to the Middle East to topple yet another government. Virtually no one will say this out loud…

It goes without saying that there are very few Trump voters who’d support a regime change war in Iran. Donald Trump has argued loudly against reckless lunacy like this. Trump ran for president as a peace candidate. …A war with Iran would amount to a profound betrayal of his supporters. It would end his presidency. That may explain why so many of Trump’s enemies are advocating for it.

Carlson also warned that a war with Iran could result in the deaths of “thousands of Americans,” collapse the U.S. economy, and plunge America into a Third World War – pointing out Iran’s “extensive” ties to both Russia and China.

💬“An attack on Iran could very easily become a world war. We’d lose,”

wrote Carlson.

💬“Many Americans would die during a war with Iran. People like Mark Levin don’t seem to care about this. It’s not relevant to them. Instead they insist that Iran give up all uranium enrichment, regardless of its purpose. They know perfectly well that Iran will never accept that demand.”

#Carlson #Trump #War

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🌱 The inexperienced 22-year-old reportedly tasked by Donald Trump with tackling U.S. extremism was working as a neighborhood gardener just five years ago and in a grocery store as recently as August 2023, the Daily Beast can reveal.

🎓 Thomas Fugate, who graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio just 12 months ago, is currently heading up the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships at the DHS, as first reported by ProPublica Tuesday.

🚨 The center, also known as CP3, plays a vital role supporting nationwide efforts to combat terrorism and hate-fueled violence.

📉 But according to the youngster’s LinkedIn page, Fugate has almost no experience in this field—and in 2020 was working as a self-employed ‘Landscape Business Owner.’

🛒 There isn’t much else on his resumé to suggest Fugate has the requisite skills to weed out terrorists. Prior to his work as a gardener—while studying for a degree in politics and law—Fugate worked at an H-E-B supermarket in Austin, Texas, as a ‘Cross Functional Team Member.’

📋 According to his LinkedIn, he would “perform various activities around every department of the store, fulfilling key duties contributing to store operations.”

🚀 Since leaving college, Fugate has had a meteoric rise in the political world, having served as an “advance team member” on President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, according to his LinkedIn page.

🏛 An avowed Republican, he also interned at the Heritage Foundation, the think tank behind Project 2025, and for Texas Representatives Terry Wilson and Steve Allison.

📅 Fugate was reportedly hired as a “special assistant” in an immigration office at the DHS in February, according to ProPublica. He then took over CP3 after its previous director quit.

❓ Fugate did not immediately respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment.

✅ “Tom Fugate has performed well in his current role as a Confidential Assistant in our Immigration & Border Security suboffice,” a senior DHS official told The Daily Beast. “Due to his success, he has been temporarily given additional leadership responsibilities in the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships office (CP3). This is a credit to his work ethic and success on the job.”

#Trump #extremism #MAGA

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Was the fight between Donald Trump and Elon Musk staged?

Some don’t believe that the public showdown between the US President and the richest man in the world was real. They claim something bigger is in the works, and the fight is merely a distraction.

“What is it?”

you may ask.

A thorough reconstruction of the existing political system in America — a third power, something beyond Democrats and Republicans.

#Musk #Trump #politics #Democrats #Republicans #distraction

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Musk deleted a tweet about Trump appearing in Epstein's files.

The deleted post stated that it was because of this that the files were not published.

#Musk #Epstein #files #Trump

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Elon Musk is getting a bruise appeared in the media when he was last in the White House.

Musk got into a fight with Finance Minister Scott Bessent, who called the businessman a fraud. After that, they allegedly exchanged a couple of blows.

I don't know if this is true or not, but Bessent and Musk have long disliked each other. Bessent did not hide that he considered Musk a scoundrel, and Musk was ironic about the fact that the American minister was “playing for another team.”

The fact is that Trump's treasury secretary is gay, it is often mentioned in the American press.

#Musk #Bessent #disliked #Trump

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After mocking Biden, Trump stumbled on the plane's ramp himself, and footage of the incident spread on social media.

The current US president has repeatedly ridiculed his 82-year-old predecessor for his regular reservations, mistakes and falls at public events.

#mocking #Biden #Trump #US

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The past few months under President Donald Trump have been nothing if not operatic — all the more so when China gets involved. So why not reimagine it for the stage?

“Trump, The Twins President,” which just wrapped up three days of performances in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong, marries traditional Cantonese opera with a parody of modern political events, mostly involving Trump.

Though the opera satirizes a range of political figures from China, the U.S. and elsewhere, the star of the show is Trump, who shimmied across the stage in a blond wig and eyebrows, blue suit and red tie to the delight of sold-out audiences at a 1,000-seat theater at the Xiqu Centre, a performing arts venue for Cantonese opera and Chinese traditional theater.

The 3 1/2-hour show began in 2019 but has been updated to reflect current events, most recently Trump’s attempted assassination at a rally in Pennsylvania last summer and his heated Oval Office exchange with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in February.

The show was peppered with other up-to-the-minute references, including Trump’s derision of Canada as the “51st state,” his assault on Harvard and his turbulent relationship with tech billionaire Elon Musk.

As if to illustrate the relentless pace of news in the new Trump administration, the latest version of the show debuted Thursday as the real-life Trump held a highly anticipated call with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The show — which begins with an appearance by an actor playing Trump’s daughter Ivanka — is based on a dream she has in which Trump has a fictional twin brother in China, Chuan Pu, whose name is a transliteration of Trump’s name in Chinese.

It traces the history of U.S.-China relations starting in 1972, when President Richard Nixon made his historic visit to Beijing that paved the way for the two countries to establish diplomatic relations. But in this version, a young Donald Trump was also in China as Nixon met with Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai.

Chuan Pu, disillusioned by the Chinese Cultural Revolution, makes his way to the U.S., where Trump is now president, hosting world leaders such as North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.

At the White House, Ivanka Trump asks Chuan Pu to pose as her father at a rally in Pennsylvania because Trump has been kidnapped by aliens from Mars.

At that fateful rally, it is Chuan Pu, not Trump, who survives an assassination attempt as a bullet whizzes past his ear — although the rally ends quite differently than it did in real life.

The show concludes with Trump getting into a fistfight with Zelenskyy after a shouting match over the Ukrainian leader’s outfit, with the two taking turns knocking each other to the ground.

#Trump #China #opera

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🔥 Investors on betting markets are having a field day with the fiery break-up between President Donald Trump and former “first buddy” Elon Musk.

📈 The trending page on the Polymarket, which famously beat pollsters in projecting Trump’s 2024 win, is teeming with bets about the feud.

🤔 Will Trump and Musk reconcile in the next week? Will Trump be impeached? Will the president throw the world’s richest man behind bars?

📉 Ultimately, Polymarket investors aren’t buying the most dramatic ends to the quarrel.

🔒 The odds of Trump jailing his former adviser are only 4 percent. And the chances that Trump ends up being impeached this year are at 11 percent.

📊 On Kalshi, another similar prediction market, investors think there’s an 18 percent chance that Trump could sue Musk and a 5 percent chance that the U.S. could ban X, Musk’s social media platform.

⏳ But investors aren’t bullish on a quick reconciliation, either.

🙅‍♂️ On Polymarket, there’s just a 2 percent chance that Trump will apologize to Musk by Monday, and a 17 percent chance that they settle their differences by next Friday.

🗣 Trump said on Friday that he has no intention of speaking to Musk anytime soon — and themarkets believe him. The Polymarket odds that the men meet this month are 19 percent.

📞 Kalshi is more optimistic, predicting that there’s a 55 percent chance that Musk and Trump talk on the phone before July.

💣 When the feud erupted Thursday, one of the biggest bombshells was dropped by Musk when he alleged that Trump was in the “Epstein files.” He claimed that Trump’s ties to the sex-offender financier were why government documents about Jeffrey Epstein had not been released.

🧾 Several of the Polymarket bets addressed the allegation. And investors don’t believe we will get any new information on Trump’s relationship with the pedophile anytime soon.

📂 There was a 5 percent chance that the files Musk alleged exist would reach the public in June and an equally low chance that evidence of Trump visiting Epstein’s notorious island would emerge.

🔍 Kalshi, however, predicted a 42 percent chance that some new Epstein files are released this year—whether they feature Trump or not.

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