Weeks of tensions culminated in the incredible quarrel last night, where heavy accusations flew, with Musk who accused Trump of being inside the “Epstein Files”. In the afternoon, a clarifying call is expected.
The honeymoon between Donald Trump and Elon Musk It seems to have come to its conclusion. Last night a tough blow and response by social media between the American president and the patron of Tesla and Spacex was staged, one of those who leave their mark.
Some warnings It had already been in recent weeks. Musk had never fully digested the duties imposed in “Liberationday”, it is not a mystery that the strong cuts imposed by the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), directed by Musk himself, had made more than a nose turn into the administration. In short, in short, the lite of yesterday is not a lightning bolt, however, it is in the ways in which it happened.
The main reason for the social scar in Mondovisione that took place yesterday is the “Big Beautiful Bill“, By Musk defined as” the Big Ugly Bill “, which” will increase the deficit of 2500 billion dollars! “. According to the sweater of South African origin, in fact, the bill proposed by the President will significantly increase the already exorbitant American public debt, now to 124% of GDP. The Big Beautiful Bill, strongly desired by Trump, aims to make the 2017 tax cuts permanent, to introduce new tax deductions and to increase the debt roof of 4 other trillions of dollars. It also includes significant cuts in shopping for social programs such as Obama’s Medicaid and borders’ safety funding.
But let’s get to the point. It all started late yesterday evening, when questioned on Musk’s opposition to the Trump bill said she was “very disappointed by Elon. I helped it a lot. He knew the internal mechanisms of the bill better than anyone else present here. He had no problems. Suddenly he had a problem, and he left only when he discovered that we would cut the obligation of electric vehicles».
Musk immediately replied on X: «False, this bill has never been shown to me once and was approved in the middle of the nightso quickly that almost nobody at the congress managed to read it! ».
So Trump declared in a post on his social network Truth that “Elon was “exhausting”, I asked him to leaveI removed the mandate on electric vehicles, which forced everyone to buy electric cars that nobody wanted (and he had known for months that I would do it!), And he went crazy! ». To which Tesla’s tycoon immediately replied on X: «Such a clear lie. How sadness».
Trump, however, returned to the attack, adding: “The easiest way to save money in our budget, billions and billions of dollars, is to put an end to Elon’s subsidies and government contracts. He always surprised me that Biden didn’t do it! ».
Musk then raised the shot, announcing the disposal of the Spacex Dragon spacecraft, the only orbital capsule of reusable transport of the American space program. Musk then moved back, but it certainly did not go unnoticed that Spacex is the only American company capable of bringing crews to and from the space station, without it, American astronauts must rely on the Russian Soyuz probe, as happened last April 8th.
But Musk went beyond posting the following message: «It’s time to release the biggest bomb: Donald Trump is in Epstein’s files. This is the real reason why they have not been made public. Good day, DJT! ». South African magnate refers to the case files Jeffrey epsteinUS financier accused of minors sexual traffic and management of an exploitation network involving minor girls. Arrested in 2019, he died in prison in suspicious circumstances, officially from suicide. The online publication of the lists of various celebrities and men of power that attended his private island has aroused a lot of sensation, especially in the United States.
However, the thing degenerated in a sort of “witch hunt”, with continuous lists of people even remotely associated with Epstein who were published and promptly generated a sensation, often unjustified. The financier who fell in disgrace, in fact, had already been sentenced in 2008 to adapt to prostitution and procurement of minors for prostitutionafter only 13 months he left prison. Nevertheless, Just starting from that 2008 condemnation Donald Trump, as well as Bill Clinton and many others, cut every type of relationship with Jeffrey Epstein (many others, however, continued to attend it).
In short, Musk’s accusation seems a little span for air and aimed at generating a sensation. However, the great quarrel remains with the president, followed live by the over 220 million followers of the patron of X. The fracture between the two could be recomposed, at least in part, by a phone call scheduled for this afternoon, on the other hand Trump has already diminished the thing in the night, declaring that the quarrel with Musk “is not a big problem”.
