Elon Musk’s shouting match with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent might have been the final nail in the coffin for the tech billionaire’s four-month stint in the White House, but it came after months of bubbling frustration at Musk’s “chain-saw” approach to dismantling the federal government.
Musk and Bessent exploded at each other in April when Musk attempted to force through his pick to lead the IRS—Gary Shapley—behind Bessent’s back. (Musk eventually lost this battle—Shapley lasted less than 72 hours before Bessent tapped Michael Faulkender to replace him.)
“Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!” a typically mild-mannered Bessent was heard shouting after Musk as they charged down the halls of the West Wing.
Bullshit. He got pretty much everything he wanted, including gigantic government contracts for his businesses, while stopping all investigations into his criminal activity and negligent products. Also got to get high on swinging his dick around a lot, and still has trump offering him more favors for more money.
Yes, but -like trump- he will shout stupid shit to draw away the attention from the main cause… because people will take offense
It wouldn’t be a Trump administration without reality TV drama. That harms millions of people.
How crazy to be the useful idiot’s useful idiot.
Such nonsense. Musk was along for the ride on the recent Middle East trip. The staff may hate him, but HitlerPig is keeping him close. He’s going to need him to hack the next few elections.
If things are quieter, it’s only because his board threatened to replace him after that disastrous earnings call, which has to have stoked threats of a shareholder lawsuit. The stock tanked as a direct result of his irresponsible behavior, which has done irreparable damage to the company’s brand image, and the stockholders aren’t going to just accept the loss of millions of dollars.
So he’s keeping a low profile right now, until things cool off, but his presence on the Mideast trip means HitlerPig still wants him around.
He did everything he set out to do. Gutted every agency that got in his way of doing whatever he wanted with his companies. That’s not fair. He needs to be jailed for this sabotage of our government. Let’s not let some narrative of failure muddy the water on him actually doing those things
Elon left the White House an utter failure.
No, he didn’t. He killed all the government investigations into him and awarded his companies huge contracts worth $billions for the foreseeable future. He achieved everything he really set out to do. DOGE was just the distraction.
Is everyone forgetting the data access this guy has now? He accessed EVERYTHING and his script kiddies installed a ton of shit
He did exactly what he was supposed to do Got the private information of every single person we have records on. That’s a goddamn huge win for his fragile self
Most people have absolutely zero idea about the access they had and what they could have copied.
He did leave as an utter failure - not because of what he accomplished or didn’t accomplish, but because he was already an utter failure of a human being the day he arrived in the White House.
I wonder if Elon knows he’s a scapegoat. Like obviously he’s a villain brought in to do a bunch of shit that was always in the Trump plan but would be unpopular with a bunch of people so Trump’s team could say “Oh no! We didn’t do any of that stuff it was all this evil Musk guy!” I just wonder if he knows that. He is pretty stupid in a lot of ways, but I really don’t think he’s truly dumb enough to not realize that was his role in the Trump admin, but he is also increasingly delusional about his own skill and intelligence so maybe that won out.
Two attention hungry vainglorious narcissists can’t exist in the same space for long.
Yeah I don’t buy it. Republicans are trying to save face. They cheered him on the entire election.
Failure by what metric? First off, he went in and destroyed everything he wanted to. He got the FAA to cancel their contract with Verizon and sign with Starlink for communication; He and DOGE gutted agencies that were supposed to regulate SpaceX, Neuralink, Tesla, and X; DoJ dropped a case agains SpaceX; and since he started his rampage, more than 40 agencies have taken no actions on investigations into his companies suggesting they are at least being slow walked if not dropped all together. The transportation department lowered requirements for Tesla and other companies to report incidents with self driving cars, and the FAA gave SpaceX permission to quintuple their number of launches despite the effect on the environment and air travel.
In what way was this a failure? Because Trump and his people hate him? Frankly, everyone hates Musk these days. Plus, I wear it as a badge of honor when the likes of Trump and his cronies hate me.
They all hate Trump too because he’s cut from the same cloth.
I hope that some day Elon comes to realize that he is utterly alone. No one, and I mean no one likes him. Everyone in his life that is friendly or supportive to his face, is putting on a show trying to get money from him or through their association with him. The assortment of adoring losers that identify with him, are merely chasing a mirage. They don’t adore him, only the fictional character that he’s constructed for PR purposes. He has to buy friends. He has to buy sex and offspring. He even has to buy the illusion of trivial accomplishments like progress in video games. He is peak loser, everyone can see it, and only a few are willing to lie to his face in exchange for maybe getting some cash. No amount of money, or fear driven bigotry, or trolling, or descendants will ever fill the gaping hole in that fetid husk he calls a soul. If there is any justice, he will be moping, riddled with regret about all this someday whenever he gets around to dying, alone in some dusty metaphorical corner.
He’s not gone, though. They lie constantly, and of course about this.
“Entire Trump team hated Elon Musk”…
If you’ll recall, after Trump’s first term, it was revealed that the entire Trump team hated Donald Trump.
Basically, any marginally competent person will hate working with people like Trump or Musk who make drastic changes without any reason or even any idea of what they’re doing.
Lol we are supposed to believe Musk bought a presidency and is going to just leave his money-making rule-breaking new toy alone?
Yeah right, and monkeys could fly out of my butt.
