Elon Musk becomes so dangerous for Donald Trump
A little melancholy seemed to be in the air. « Thank you, » said Donald Trump Unusually often in the direction of his « friend and consultant » Elon Musk: he has shown America an « unprecedented service ». The tech billionaire gratefully took a golden one Key to the White House as a farewell gift in contrast to. « Elon doesn’t really work, » Trump assured: « He will move back and forth. »
Less than five days, the staged harmony between the president and the richest man in the world kept. In the White House, Musk, who, according to media reports, consumed considerable amounts of drugs and had not temporarily under control his facial features. On Tuesday it burst out of him: « I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore, » he posted on his platform X and fired a full broad side against Trump’s central project: the gigantic tax and expenditure package.
Musk’s criticism strikes like a bomb for Republicans
For weeks, the president has been raving about his « great, beautiful law », which is intended to permanently fix and expand the tax cuts from his first term: « This is probably the most important piece of legislation in the history of our country. » For days he has been feverishly trying to bring possible deviators to line in the Senate. Musks revolves it like a bomb: « This massive, outrageous and stuffed budget draft of the congress with election gifts is disgusting hideousness. »
It was not done for Musk with the unique outbreak: on the night of Wednesday he added around a dozen posts in which he denounced the astronomical expansion of American debt by the law. According to calculations by the congregation’s non -partisan budget office, the already huge state deficit of $ 36.1 trillion would grow by a further 3.8 trillion dollars within a decade, although the Republicans had always promised a more solid budget policy.
TRump for the first time at the appointment with Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) in the White House When asked about the controversy. The 78-year-old indicated that musk was led by business interests. The busy entrepreneur is, among other things, the head of the electric car manufacturer Tesla. Trump said Musk had no problem with the law – until he found out that a reduction in billions of billions of subsidies for electric vehicles added. Musk called that a lie.
Musk: Trump only stays president for three and a half years
The 53-year-old owner of the extensive online platform X suggested congress members of the Republican Party to join his side when voting on the law. « Trump still has three and a half years as President – and there will be more than 40 years, » he wrote as a « food for thought » for the parliamentarians on X, where he put a real cascade on posts within a few hours.
It may seem questionable that musk, as a matter of course, estimates a life expectancy of more than 90 years – but for congress members, his words are not simply an empty threat. With an estimated assets of more than $ 300 billion, Musk is by far the richest person in the world. Last year he put over $ 250 million in Trump’s election campaign, although he was previously considered a supporter of the Democrats. And with his monster, he could easily finance challengers who dispute the unpleasant MPs in the House of Representatives or Senate.
Musk: Without me, Trump would have lost the choice
Musk also made an election campaign for Trump, among other things, in the important state of Pennsylvania. Trump now said that he had easily won in Pennsylvania – and seems to have also applied the tech billionaire against himself. « Without me, Trump would have lost the choice, » Musk said at X. « Such an ungratefulness. »
After that, Musk took a sensational accusation, which he initiated with the sentence « It is time to throw really big bomb »: He claimed that Trump’s name can be found in documents for the notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. « That is the real reason why they were not published, » he wrote – and then wished Trump a « beautiful day ».
Epstein died in a New York prison cell in 2019. Vice-FBI director Dan Bongino recently confirmed that the well-networked financier in the American high society had committed suicide. Trump’s Ministry of Justice disclosed some Epstein documents in February.
Musk did not give any evidence of his claim – and there is no reason why he should have access to the documents. However, during his time as a listed government advisor in Washington, he intergers many things that exceeded his actual area of responsibility. The president initially did not comment on Causa Epstein. Trump confidante told the news channel CNN, but they did not believe that the relationship between the two could recover from this attack Musk.
Tesla share sags after Trump threats
The tech billionaire also spread a contribution to X with a narrow « yes » in which the author wrote that Trump had to be removed from the office. Trump, in turn, threatened financial consequences for Musk companies. « The easiest way to save billions and billions of dollars in our household is to terminate Elon’s government subsidies and contracts, » wrote the President at the online platform Truth Social. He had always been surprised that his predecessor Joe Biden didn’t do that. Many Tesla investors reacted panicked, the carmaker’s share lost more than 14 percent to the US trade.
In return, Musk announced that his space company SpaceX would start immediately taking the Dragon space capsule out of operation. Later he seemed to take this back with another post on X – however, it was not clear how serious Musk means.
The Dragon room capsules are currently practically indispensable for the USA to bring astronauts into space. Boeing developed the spaceship Starliner, but the first flight with people on board the crew had to remain on board the ISS space station because there were technical problems. The astronauts stuck on the ISS for months before returning with a SpaceX capsule.
Demonstrative harmony becomes a bitter dispute
For the first time, Trump also claimed that he asked Musk to withdraw from Washington. So far, both had referred to a rule that external government employees may only be employed 130 days a year. There had been no talk of differences, and there was a communication on the outside – until now.
In the past few months, Trump and Musk demonstratively have shown their harmony, so that the heavy boss was often referred to as the « First Buddy » of the President. They showed themselves together at a SpaceX rocket start and a wrestling tournament. Musk was allowed to take out extraordinary freedom and, for example, let his son X romp around at a media appointment in the Oval Office.
When the sales figures from Tesla collapsed, among other things, because of Musk’s right -wing political views, Trump had a car column opened in front of the White House and demonstratively bought one of the electric vehicles. « I love Tesla! » Trump called to the TV cameras. Meanwhile, Musk wrote in February that he love Trump « as much as a hetero man can love another ».
However, speculation has been speculated since the beginning of the alliance that the fraternization between Trump and Musk, which is often mockingly referred to as « Bromance », was a pure alliance. If only because of its pronounced ego, the alliance could not last forever.
For Trump, Musk’s intervention is extremely dangerous for Trump in two ways: the Republican majority is already standing for the Law in the Senate on toned feet. Musk provides further arguments to the critics. At the same time, the richest man in the world, who supported Trump with campaign donations of $ 250 million, has enough money to influence the coordination in the congress through economic pressure. « Shame on those who voted for it, » he said at X and openly threatened: « In November of the coming year (in the intermediate elections, editor) we will fire all politicians who have betrayed the American people. »
So far, Trump has largely implemented his politics through more than 200 presidential orders and directives. But for his central fiscal election promises, he needs a law adopted by the congress. The 1100 -page « One Big Beautiful Bill Act » provides for new tax exemptions for drinking funds, overtime and car loans in addition to the fixed diploma. In addition, military spending is to be increased by $ 150 billion. For – completely inadequate – counter -financing, cuts at Medicaid, health insurance for the needy, and food aids are intended for arms. However, the lion’s share would have to be covered by new debts.
After the House of Representatives waved through the paragraph with a wafer -thin majority, it is now in the Senate, where the Republicans theoretically have a majority of three votes. However, several budgetary hardliners around the Libertary Senator Rand Paul reject the debt explosion and demand more drastic spending cuts. On the other hand, several senators already go too far the intended cuts through which around 15 million people could lose their health insurance coverage.
Meanwhile, the reasons for Musk’s vehement attack against the core of the Trump agenda is speculated in Washington. The Tesla owner could also have personal motifs. The law drives the subsidies for electric cars introduced by the bidet government, from which Tesla also benefits. In addition, the state aviation authority FAA had spoken out against the use of Musk’s Satellite System Starlink on domestic air traffic control. Finally, Trump dropped a muscle confidantWith Andrej Sokolow, dpa)
