{"id":673743,"date":"2025-06-06T08:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T05:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-are-elon-musk-and-donald-trump-fighting\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T08:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T05:15:15","slug":"why-are-elon-musk-and-donald-trump-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-are-elon-musk-and-donald-trump-fighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are Elon Musk and Donald Trump fighting?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump and his biggest political supporter Elon Musk are breaking up in the most public and 21st century way \u2014 via their own social<\/a> networks. And while many predicted the Trump-Musk pair-up would eventually sour, it\u2019s still worth asking and trying to answer, \u201cHow did we get here?\u201d<\/p>\n

Until recently, Musk has been a key figure in Trump\u2019s inner circle. The connection has affected broad swaths of the government, notably through the Department of Government Efficiency, an organization created by an executive order and advised by Musk.<\/p>\n

Musk, once a fixture at Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, and in the White House, has now turned against the president. The source of his discontent: the One Big Beautiful Bill Act<\/a>, a 1,038-page piece of legislation that was passed May 22 by the House of Representatives. It now heads to the Senate, the next step in the bill\u2019s path toward becoming a law.<\/p>\n

Days later, Trump withdrew his nomination of Jared Isaacman, Musk\u2019s pick to head NASA \u2014 a move widely viewed as evidence of their faltering relationship. But even through the end of the month, Trump and Musk publicly played nice.<\/p>\n

The mood shifted \u2014 in a public, scorched-earth kind of way \u2014 this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry, but I just can\u2019t stand it anymore,\u201d Musk wrote<\/a> on X on Tuesday. \u201cThis massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m sorry, but I just can\u2019t stand it anymore.<\/p>\n

This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.<\/p>\n

Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The bill is presented as an effort to cut taxes and invest in American businesses. However, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates<\/a> that while the bill will cut taxes by $3.7 trillion, it will increase the national debt by $2.4 trillion over 10 years and raise the country\u2019s debt ceiling by $4 trillion<\/a>. This impact on the country\u2019s existing debt crisis has two Republican senators, Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ron Johnson (R-WI), breaking from their party\u2019s stance to oppose the bill<\/a> in its current state.<\/p>\n

The bill\u2019s impacts are vast; among numerous other effects, it removes taxes from Social Security income, tips, and overtime pay. The bill also makes massive cuts to federal healthcare programs like Medicaid and SNAP. The CBO estimates that, by making massive cuts to federal healthcare programs, almost 11 million<\/a> more people will lack health insurance by 2034.<\/p>\n

The bill would also make the effects of Trump\u2019s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act from his first term permanent, though economists have found<\/a> that these cuts had more benefit for the richest Americans than the poorest. Additional tax cuts in Trump\u2019s new bill are also expected to benefit wealthy families<\/a> more than those in need.<\/p>\n

Musk isn\u2019t wrong when he says some representatives who voted for the bill are already regretting it. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) admitted that she had not read the thousand-page bill in its entirety and regrets endorsing it<\/a> because it would prevent individual states regulating AI for the next decade.<\/p>\n

The dispute between Trump and Musk escalated further Thursday, when the president was asked about the Tesla and SpaceX leader\u2019s rejection of the bill.<\/p>\n

Trump claims that Musk was deeply familiar with his plans for the bill but recoiled when he learned it would negatively impact his business.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe only developed a problem when he found out that we\u2019re going to have to cut the EV mandate,\u201d Trump said, referring to policies that incentivize the production and sale of electric vehicles, like the ones Tesla makes. \u201cThat\u2019s billions and billions of dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk went on to claim that Trump only won the election because of his help.<\/p>\n

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Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cWithout me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate,\u201d Musk said on X.<\/p>\n

The two entrepreneurs have continued to make jabs at each other on their respective social media platforms \u2014 and it\u2019s escalating.<\/p>\n

\u201cElon was \u2018wearing thin,\u2019 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!\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

In another post, Trump added<\/a>, \u201cThe easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon\u2019s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn\u2019t do it!\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk posted<\/a> a screenshot of Trump\u2019s post and added that he would decommission SpaceX\u2019s Dragon spacecraft as a result of the president\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n

Musk has continued on with a barrage of posts on X against the president, who he spent $288 million<\/a> to help elect. Musk then accused<\/a> Trump of being in the Epstein Files, referring to the financier Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s sexual exploitation of children. Trump has not responded to the allegation.<\/p>\n

Musk also declared<\/a> that the Trump tariffs will cause a recession in the latter half of this year, and he posted an agreement with another user\u2019s post saying that Trump should be impeached<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the public fight has launched frantic levels of posting on X, popcorn emojis, and memes declaring that \u201cthe girls are fighting,\u201d the fallout between the world\u2019s richest person and a sitting U.S. president promises to have broader implications for the tech industry.<\/p>\n

Following Trump\u2019s lead, other tech billionaires like Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and App<\/a>le CEO Tim Cook donated to Trump\u2019s inauguration fund. Trump\u2019s policies have already had negative repercussions for some of these companies\u2019 businesses through enforcing heavy tariffs on international imports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n