Battle of People's Commissars

The quarrel of US President Trump and the richest man Planet Mask overshadowed all the news. She was being watched as if there were no other problems left

They followed, in general, right: this quarrel can have far -reaching consequences - for politics, economics and science. Or maybe not to have. If these two are suddenly reconciled. Which is absolutely possible.

The latest news indicates that the conflict is still in full swing. On Friday morning, the elder adviser to the White House announced that Trump wants to sell or “get rid” of the Tesla red car, which he recently acquired from the company Mask. The car is still standing near the White House. The well -wishers wanted to arrange a “reconciling” phone call on June 6, but the president refused to talk with the mask, saying that he would not do this “a certain period of time” (for a While).

The quarrel erupted on Thursday and became extremely public due to the fact that the two recent ally were exchanged in the pages of social networks, respectively, Truth Social and X (formerly Twitter). This happened less than a week after the president and billionaire exchanged compliments during the ceremony in the oval office dedicated to the departure of the mask from the post of head of the Department of Efficiency of the Government (DOGE).

Due to the characteristics of the nature of the two persons-capricious, egocentric daffodils (determining the local media)-the skirmish became a gift to numerous critics of Trump and Mask: in the media, social networks and “corridors of power”. “Stunning scandal”, “stormy divorce” and, finally, a “big beautiful fight” - these are just a few names of what happened between these two online.

In the latter case, the name “Big Beautiful Law Process” is played out, due to which a loud clarification of relations began. Musk sharply “ran into” the president’s favorite political brainchild, which covers almost the entire internal political agenda of the current administration and provides for a reduction in taxes for ordinary citizens and corporations, but at the same time the costs of medical insurance programs of Mediaid and food coupons to the poor SNAP.

According to the estimates of the budget management of the congress - an independent, that is, a non -partisan organization - a bill on a budget in its current form will add 2.4 trillion dollars to a deficit for 10 years. Under this avalanche, 150–160 billion savings will be drowned, which brought the stormy activity of the mask at the head of the DOGE, which led to the fact that it became the most unpopular figure in the White House (the rating is lower than that of Trump). In addition, almost 11 million Americans will lose medical insurance due to the “large beautiful bill” included in the “Medicaid insurance” and the law on affordable medical care (Obamacare).

We are following the development of a "big beautiful fight."

Musk writes on social networks X, addressing rather not to Trump, but to the leaders of the Republicans in both wards - the speaker Johnson and the head of the majority in the Senate of Tuna: "Congress expenses will bring America to bankruptcy." Trump perceived this personally, calling the Mask “crazy” on the True Social network (Trump “frequent” in this characteristic!). “I took his mandate for electric cars, forcing everyone to buy electric cars that no one wanted (he knew for several months that I was going to do it!), And he just went crazy!” - Caught Trump, and further:

“The easiest way to save money in our budget, billions and billions of dollars is to terminate the state subsidies and contracts of Ilon! I was always surprised that Biden did not do it! " Musk quickly and ironically answered X: "Come on, do my day!"

Let me remind you that in addition to the management of TESLA electric vehicles and the SpaceX spacing and satellite communications company, the business mask includes the XII artificial intelligence company, The Boring Company Tunnel Modeling company, the NEURALINK technological company and the social network X, which many are considered as a powerful political resource, the lever of influence on voters around the world. And Musk has become the largest sponsor of the Republican Party and Trump in last year’s elections, investing about $ 300 million in a campaign.

Trump said in the White House that Musk was “exhausted” by the end of his work, and the true reason for his dissatisfaction with the bill is supposedly a government refusal for benefits for electric car manufacturers. “I asked him to leave,” Trump said.

Musk called this “an obvious lie” and fell upon the reproaches: “Without me, Trump would lose the elections, the democrats would control the House of Representatives, and the Republicans would have 51–49 in the Senate ( i.e. the minimum advantage. - A.P. )”.

The popular conservative blogger Ian Miles Chong, who has 1.2 million subscribers on the social platform of Mask X, writes on Thursday: “I put it on Ilon in the battle between Mast and Trump”. Jong also said: “Trump should be imperative, and his place should take ( vice president ) Jay Di Wence.” After less than 30 minutes, Musk made a repost Jong, adding one word: “Yes”.

Musk accused the Trump administration of refusing to publish notes regarding the late Jeffrey Epstein because the president "appears in Epstein files." “True will come out,” added Musk. Trump denies any involvement in Epstein’s criminal behavior, and Musk did not give any evidence in his post. The NBC television company has archival personnel, as Trump was hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein in 1992.

The accusation of Trump with a serial criminal accused of organizing people's trading and organizing sex-welfare with youngsters who committed suicide in prison under unclear circumstances in 2019, became a “stunning blow,” writes The Hill, known for his ties with insiders from the close circle of the president. On Thursday, Musk took the opportunity to remind his subscribers about Trump’s quote in the Epstein profile in the New York magazine more than two decades ago. “It’s very fun with him. They even say that he likes beautiful women just like me, ”Trump said then.

Musk raised the bets, writing: “In the light of the president’s statements about the abolition of my state contracts, SpaceX will immediately begin to disinterate the Dragon spacecraft.”

Then Musk abandoned this threat. It was the Mask company that helped to return to the Earth from the orbit of two American astronauts Barry Butcha Wilmore and Suni Williams, when NASA considered that the use of Boeing’s ship was “fraught with great risk”.

Further - more. Musk interviewed subscribers whether America was needed by the Third Party - a new political force that would unite voters disappointed both in the Democrats and in the Republicans. Within two hours, he was responded with 1.3 million people, 83.2% responded with “yes”.

Tricks immediately stood up for their leader and brought down new threats to the mask. “We are going to go to the damn war,” the former adviser to the president, and now the popular blogger Steve Bannon, said in an interview with Politico. - The president treated him almost like his son. He invited his family to a Christmas dinner. He allowed him to spend the night with him. He allowed him to come and leave the meetings. The president went to maximum informality to welcome this guy. ” In his show, War Room Live Bannon said that Trump should sign a decree on the control of SpaceX with the help of the law on mobilization in the interests of national security, which is called the Law on the production of defense products. Bannon is convinced that the administration should deprive the mask of admission to secret information and suspend all contracts until the investigation is conducted, including in relation to the relations with the Communist Party of China and the legality of immigration status and possible deportation from the country.

The Wired publication on October 31 of last year claimed that the mask (a native of South Africa and Citizen of Canada) could withdraw US citizenship if it turns out that he “lubricated” in migration documents. The victory of the Republicans in the election "Removed the question". But you can raise it again “in the light of new circumstances”, Trump is avenged. “Ketamin said so,” Bannon quarreled in an interview with NBC News, hinting at the recent New York Times about the use of drugs during the 2024 election campaign. The billionaire denies the accusations, although in the past he “used” live. In 2018, Elon Musk was a guest of the leading podcasts of Joe Rogan and during a 2.5-hour conversation Kurili Marijuana and drank whiskey. Now he says that for three years is absolutely sober.

On the one hand, there is a threat that part of the republican lawmakers will listen to the mask and fail Trump's Beautiful Bill, which threatens to seriously affect the intermediate elections to Congress next year. I note that so far the majority of one-time lawmakers have performed on the side of Trump.

Thus, Musk, who became an enemy among liberals for authoritarianism, protectionism, fascist “Ziga” and so on, now received a second front in the person of irreconcilable trampists.

On the other hand, in this scandal, Musk risks much more and has already suffered huge losses. The Tesla shares reset traders from Wall Street, collapsing them by more than 14%, which led to loss of $ 152 billion of the market value of the manufacturer of electric vehicles per day. The shareholders are unhappy with a mask, not Trump. Ross Gerber, head of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management, said on the Network that Elon “now attacks all the people whom he helped to lead to power ... All this cannot be good for shareholders. But - hey, who is worried about our fate? ”

If Trump refuses the mask in contracts, this will hit both the billionaire and the country. SpaceX is one of the largest federal contractors - $ 3.8 billion per hundreds of state contracts, writes The New York Times. According to the Fedscout government contracting site, since 2008, only this Mask company has received more than $ 20 billion from NASA, US Air Force and other agencies. In February, the Washington Post in February reported that for 20 years, the Mask received at least $ 38 billion from the government in the form of contracts, loans, subsidies and tax benefits. SpaceX is one of the favorites applying for an order under the Trump missile defense program Golden Dome, reports Reuters. The space agency invests about $ 4 billion in Starship, which was supposed to deliver astronauts to the surface of the moon and vice versa.

On Friday, Musk, it seems, handed Trump the branch of the world. The signal was small, in the form of a response to the post of Bill Ekman, General Director Pershing Square, who tried to reduce tension: “I support @realdonaldtrump and @elonmusk, and they must conclude the world for the benefit of our great country. Together we are much stronger than separately. ” Musk replied: "You are not mistaken."

Trump, who called the former adviser and chief sponsor, “problem”, this time said nothing, not noticing a gesture.

Many experts warned that their union was originally doomed. If it were not for the “big beautiful bill” or “tariff wars”, then there would be other reasons for the “divorce”. “Two large eagles cannot get along with the White House,” an assessment of the former Minister of Defense and Director of the CIA Leon Panetta. Some members of the Congress believed that the collapse of the president’s relationship with the billionaire was so inevitable that they made bets, how long their union would last. “We made bets right in the meeting room: will this relationship last three months or six months?” -said CNN Congressman-Democrat from Texas Vicenta Gonzalez. "I do not think that someone believed that they would last a year." In the Gonzalez constituency, a new city of Starbeis is located, built simultaneously with the headquarters of SpaceX. The conflict is at the same time bad for everyone, the congressman is convinced: for the president and for the billionaire, for his voters and for the whole country.

In Europe, the scandal responded to one of the first Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Radoslav Sikorsky. In March, he was drawn into a public quarrel with a magician and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, when he said that Ukraine may need an alternative to the Starlink satellite service. Then Musk wrote to the Polish minister: "Shut up, a little man." Now Sikorsky answered with a post in X: "You see, a big man, politics is more complicated than you thought."

But the overall impression of small personal sketches against the backdrop of serious world crises is very oppressive and resembles a phrase from a famous Soviet film: “Like children, Chesuslor!”

Washington