Trump's week in review: From feuding with Musk to a new travel ban
4. Musk and Trump feud over ‘big beautiful bill’
Billionaire Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and X, had a key role in the early months of the second Trump administration as the head of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency tasked with cutting government spending. Now that he has departed from that position, Musk hasn't hesitated to trash the “big beautiful bill” that Trump is working to get passed through Congress.
In an X post on Tuesday, Musk denounced the “massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill” as a “disgusting abomination.” He told all members of the U.S. House of Representatives who voted for the measure that “you know you did wrong.”
“It will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden American citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt,” Musk warned in a follow-up post. While most of Musk’s social media posts over the past week have criticized the “big beautiful bill” and have included past posts from Trump highlighting the need to get the debt under control, the posts took a different turn when Musk alleged Thursday that Trump is in the Epstein files.
“That is why they have not been made public,” Musk said. While Trump’s name is mentioned in a batch of documents related to the late sex trafficker, no allegations of wrongdoing were included. Musk’s post suggests that additional information about Trump’s ties to Epstein is out there and more damning.
Musk’s criticism of Trump did not go unnoticed by the president. In a post on Truth Social Thursday, Trump maintained that “Elon was ‘wearing thin,’ 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!”
In another Truth Social post defending the “big beautiful bill” Thursday, Trump wrote, “I don’t mind Elon turning against me, but he should have done so months ago.” In remarks at the White House Thursday, Trump described himself as “very disappointed” in Musk, insisting that “Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here.”
Musk dismissed that claim as “false,” countering that “this bill was never shown to me even once and was passed in the dead of night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
