C-SPAN: DONALD TRUMP RESPONDS TO ELON MUSK ATTACK ON HIS TAX AND SPENDING CUTS BILL

"President Trump on Elon Musk: "I've always liked Elon. I was very surprised...He hasn't said anything about me that's bad. I'd rather have him criticize me than the bill because the bill is incredible...I'm very disappointed in Elon. I've helped Elon a lot." 

Source:C-SPAN with a look at The Rambling Don. Apparently drunks get into The White House for free. Or they have to pay Donald J. Trump to be let in, first.

From C-SPAN

As Fred Schneider wrote about Elon Musk back in March: 

"But what I do know about Elon Musk is very clear: he's not a politician, doesn't want to be. He's a businessman... an oligarch. If he thought he could make a billion dollars producing nothing but vegan foods and other products and thought campaigning to outlaw meat, junk food, and soft drinks, so his vegan business would be even more successful, that's exactly what he would do. Even while still eating cheeseburgers (and I don't what he actually like to eat) with fries and washing that down with chocolate milkshake. And that would make him very popular with the Hippie-Left in America, (to keep it real) even if they founded out that he still eats meat and likes his junk food and soft drinks... 

From The New Democrat

As Derik Schneider wrote about Elon Musk yesterday: 

"As Fred said, Elon Musk is not a politician, or even a political activist. At least not a full-time political activist, who tries to advance some partisan movement, or political philosophy. He's a businessman... an oligarch. The only thing or person that he wants to advance, is Elon Musk. And he's just the latest person who got into bed with Donald Trump and came out soaking in sweat, because the only person whoever does well with Donald Trump... is Donald Trump. A look at what has happened to Elon Musk and his company Tesla since Musk went to work for the President in January:.. 

From The New Democrat

In case anyone in the world (who is not in their right mind, is currently drunk, high, in a mental institution, throwing a few back right now in a closet) missed The Rambling Don, he just made a reappearance at this joint news conference with the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Friedrich Merz. The President was given a simple question about Elon Musk and he turned it into how great and fabulous he thinks he is and perfect a job he's doing, with at best, a lot of misleading comments.

The President was asked a basic question about why Elon Musk is now speaking out against him. He sort of answered that question by saying that Mr. Musk didn't like the fact that House Republicans stripped the electric vehicle subsidy from the "Big Beautiful Bill. (That we call the Big Ugly Debt Bomb) That might be part of it, since Tesla makes EV's. But he went to The White House with the goal of eliminating $1T from the budget deficit, with his DOGE and they maybe found 5% of that instead. But to make it worst, their budget plan would add over $2T to the deficit. (According to the Republican controlled Congressional Budget Office) 

Plus the fact, Elon Musk and his company Tesla are now worth 1/2 a trillion dollars less, than they were just in December of 2024. (According to Investors Business Daily) So if you are Mr. Musk right now, you could be thinking: 

"What did I donate 6 months of life for to Donald Trump? To fend off being deported by a President Kamala Harris? Is that worth 1/2 trillion of my own money?" 

Conservative and ex-Republican political strategist Rick Wilson back in 2018, wrote the book: "Everything that Donald Trump Touches Dies": 

"In the #1 New York Times bestselling Everything Trump Touches Dies, political campaign strategist and commentator Rick Wilson delivers “a searingly honest, bitingly funny, comprehensive answer to the question we find ourselves asking most mornings: ‘What the hell is going on?’ (Chicago Tribune). The Guardian hails Everything Trump Touches Dies, saying it gives, “more unvarnished truths about Donald Trump than anyone else in the American political establishment has offered. Wilson never holds back.” Rick mercilessly exposes the damage Trump has done to the country, to the Republican Party, and to the conservative movement that has abandoned its principles for the worst President in American history.

Wilson unblinkingly dismantles Trump’s deceptions and the illusions to which his supporters cling, shedding light on the guilty parties who empower and enable Trump in Washington and in the media. He calls out the race-war dead-enders who hitched a ride with Trump, the alt-right basement dwellers who worship him, and the social conservatives who looked the other way. Publishers Weekly calls it, “a scathing, profane, unflinching, and laugh-out-loud funny rebuke of Donald Trump and his presidency.”

No left-winger, Wilson is a lifelong conservative who delivers his withering critique of Trump from the right. A leader of the Never Trump movement, he warned from the start that Trump would destroy the lives and reputations of everyone in his orbit, and Everything Trump Touches Dies is a deft chronicle the tragicomic political story of our time. From the early campaign days through the shock of election night, to the inconceivable train-wreck of Trump’s first year. Rick Wilson provides not only an insightful analysis of the Trump administration, but also an optimistic path forward for the GOP, the conservative movement, and the country.

“Hilarious, smartly written, and usually spot-on” (Kirkus Reviews), Everything Trump Touches Dies is perfect for those on either side of the aisle who need a dose of unvarnished reality, a good laugh, a strong cocktail, and a return to sanity in American politics." 

From Amazon

OK, Elon Musk is still alive and fairly well, (for Elon Musk) but that's not the point of Rick Wilson's book. The point here is that anyone who goes into business with Donald Trump... at least if they had a successful career and good reputation, pre-Donald Trump, gets screwed on the backend by Donald Trump and gets stuck with a bag of monopoly money and worthless merchandise. (Whatever metaphor you want to use) And that's what's happened to Mr. Musk and that's why he's reacting to the President the way he is. It has very little with anything that The Rambling Don had to say at this joint press meeting with Chancellor Merz. 

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