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The ballooning brouhaha started out slowly, then built up a head of steam that resulted in Musk implying that Trump was one of Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophilic pals, and Trump threatening to cut off Musk’s umbilical cord to government funding.<\/p>\n
SEE THIS: Trump Threatens to Cancel Musk\u2019s Government Contracts Because He \u2018Just Went Crazy\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The MAGA-verse was discombobulated as to how to respond to this break up, and which daddy to love. Fox News nearly had an on air seizure<\/a><\/strong> trying to sort it all out. Although there were those on Fox, and within the Republican ranks, who relied on the wishful thinking that it would all blow over shortly when the two elite lovers reconciled. But that was not to be – at least so far.<\/p>\n On Saturday it was reported that Trump told NBC News<\/a><\/strong> host Kristen Welker that he “has no desire to repair his relationship with Musk.”<\/em> However, he didn’t stop there. Trump escalated the rhetorical war with a threat that is further evidence of his lust for totalitarian rule.<\/p>\n “President Donald Trump on Saturday said there would be ‘serious consequences’ if tech mogul Elon Musk funds Democratic candidates to run against Republicans who vote in favor of the GOP\u2019s sweeping budget bill.<\/p>\n “‘If he does, he\u2019ll have to pay the consequences for that,’ Trump told NBC News in a phone interview, but declined to share what those consequences would be. ‘He\u2019ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n For the record, Musk has suggested that he would back challengers to Republican members of Congress who vote for Trump’s preposterously named (by Trump) “Big Beautiful Bill.”<\/em> Musk tweeted that he “can’t stand it anymore,”<\/em><\/a><\/strong> and that any Republicans who support that “disgusting abomination”<\/em> should be ashamed.<\/p>\n While Democrats might accept Musk’s donations in order to bury the bill and get rid of some MAGA Republicans, that doesn’t mean that they approve of his prior sabotaging of critical government agencies and services via the phony “Department of Government Efficiency”<\/em> (DOGE). The greater good served by casting out the GOP Trump cultists justifies the fiscal jiu-jitsu of diverting some of Musk’s billions to a decent cause.<\/p>\n However, Trump’s threat of “serious consequences”<\/em> for donating to Democrats is an alarming escalation of his authoritarian aspirations. He is asserting that he has some sort of power to dictate how private citizens can contribute to politicians or political causes. That is flagrantly unconstitutional.<\/p>\n Trump had no problem when Musk donated more than a quarter of a billion dollars to his campaign. And if money equals speech, as the Supreme Court ruled in the right-wing Citizens United decision, then Trump’s threat is violating Musk’s freedom of speech. And, by extension, the freedom of speech of every other American.<\/p>\n Another curious twist in this continuing melodrama is the discovery that Musk has apparently deleted some of his recent tweets aimed at Trump. Was this in response to Trump’s threats? It’s hard to imagine that he had a pang of conscience. You need to have a conscience for that. And neither of them meet that criteria.<\/p>\n First TACO, now MACO (Musk Always Chickens Out)"Elon Musk deleted a number of social media posts attacking President Donald Trump Saturday…including one accusing the president of featuring prominently in the Epstein files \u2013 and covering that up."www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/e…<\/p>\n — News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social)<\/a> 2025-06-07T18:30:36.512Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n