{"id":27716,"date":"2025-06-05T17:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T21:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=27716"},"modified":"2025-06-05T17:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T21:09:07","slug":"trump-v-musk-the-big-beautiful-breakup-and-political-war-of-many-words-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2025\/06\/trump-v-musk-the-big-beautiful-breakup-and-political-war-of-many-words-continue","title":{"rendered":"Trump v. Musk: The Big, Beautiful Breakup and Political War of Many Words Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27719\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27719\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2025\/06\/Musk-and-Trump-03_credit-The-White-House.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27719\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2025\/06\/Musk-and-Trump-03_credit-The-White-House.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The White House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Donald Trump became the 47th president of the United States, he surprisingly appointed his friend and billionaire tech mogul, Elon Musk, to reduce governmental overspending and create efficiencies among interdepartmental spending and business decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which the owner of SpaceX, Tesla, X\/Twitter, OpenAI, and Neuralink oversaw until recently, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2025\/03\/13\/doge-saved-federal-government-115-billion-experts-doubt-figures-elon-musk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">claims<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to save the federal government \u201cmore than $10 billion each week,\u201d or $714 saved per taxpayer. Trump and Musk made a formidable duo in U.S. politics until Elon shocked the world and refuted the \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/1\/text\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One Big Beautiful Bill Act<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d which is now in the Senate for review.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elon Musk has acted as one of the Act\u2019s chief cheerleaders in Congress, understanding this would make Trump\u2019s suggested 2017 tax cuts permanent and boost other spending resources for border security and foreign defense. He spent over $270 million of his money to support the Republican party and electioneer for Trump to get the popular vote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then, he went rogue and got personal on his social media platform<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCall your Senator, Call your Congressman, Bankrupting America is NOT ok! KILL the BILL,\u201d Musk stunningly posted and surprised most of the Executive Branch. In another post, he wrote, \u201cAmerica is in the fast lane to debt slavery.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That was followed by a creative meme paying homage to a notable Quentin Tarantino movie. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b15EQ9l0nD\">pic.twitter.com\/b15EQ9l0nD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1930338434415243739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a response via Donald Trump\u2019s platform, Truth Social, the president shared, \u201cThe easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon\u2019s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn\u2019t do it!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another post got a little more personal: \u201cElon was \u2018wearing thin,\u2019 I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do) and he just went CRAZY!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the taxes the two are arguing about involve:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Homeownership cuts to green energy tax credits and incentives<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$330 billion from student loan spending over the next 10 years\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ending the $200 excise tax imposed on the purchase or transfer of gun silencers<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raising the SALT tax deduction (state and local taxes) limit from $10K to $40K for joint filers making less than $500,000 per year<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The creation of \u201cTrump saving accounts\u201d for parents of newborn children<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elimination of tax on tips and overtime for servers who make less than $160,000 a year<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To rub some additional \u201csalt\u201d in the open wounds left by his departure, Musk posts about Trump\u2019s ingratitude:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">He\u2019s not wrong\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UkdzB43zIq\">pic.twitter.com\/UkdzB43zIq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 @amuse (@amuse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amuse\/status\/1930670362112426421?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the country approaches a hyperbolic national debt of $37 trillion, pundits suggest that Musk\u2019s use of the term \u201cdisgusting abomination\u201d about the Act should be applied to that harrowing number.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether Congress is \u201cmaking America bankrupt\u201d remains to be seen, but the end of this egocentric squabble appears to be far from over.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Donald Trump became the 47th president of the United States, he surprisingly appointed his friend and billionaire tech mogul, Elon Musk, to reduce governmental overspending and create efficiencies among interdepartmental spending and business decisions. 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