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Montauk6

(9,305 posts)
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 07:15 PM Jun 2025

Am I the only one NOT buying this okie-doke otherwise known as the Trump/Musk feud?

Shawn Michaels and Bret The Hitman Hart got nothing on these phonies.

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Am I the only one NOT buying this okie-doke otherwise known as the Trump/Musk feud? (Original Post) Montauk6 Jun 2025 OP
Not this huckleberry.... wcmagumba Jun 2025 #1
Nope, total reality tv bullshit. BlueTsunami2018 Jun 2025 #2
Scripted for distraction Deuxcents Jun 2025 #3
Same here. They are both king johnnyfins Jun 2025 #4
Feels contrived to me. Borogove Jun 2025 #5
Gotta disagree - I think the clash of the gigantic egos and man baby demands that they Marie Marie Jun 2025 #6
I totally believe it and knew it was coming since the election. NYC Liberal Jun 2025 #7
Trump is a giant toddler biocube Jun 2025 #8
too much play, without anything being said stillcool Jun 2025 #9
Sorry, I don't buy 5D chess play from Trump newdeal2 Jun 2025 #10
The budget bill is what they're trying to distract attention away from, which is what Trump tried Gaugamela Jun 2025 #11
It seems to me like there is much more behind all of this. moniss Jun 2025 #12
I believe it. Taco is a malignant narcissist. He'd never agree to Elon saying he is the reason Taco is president. Scrivener7 Jun 2025 #13
What is there not to buy ? JI7 Jun 2025 #14
I believe it. obnoxiousdrunk Jun 2025 #15
Nope, some of us recall Trump's long history with pro wrestling misanthrope Jun 2025 #16
As unstable as the two are... Hugin Jun 2025 #17
I noted when he stepped in there would be a pool to determine JCMach1 Jun 2025 #18
I'm on the fence. Both need distractions from what is happening now to each but they are also both mentally ill Attilatheblond Jun 2025 #19
Its just a lovers spat but I do not want to hear about the makeup sex! nt ImNotGod Jun 2025 #20
Are you serious? Mountainguy Jun 2025 #21
Worked punches always LOOK real but how consequential is any of this? Montauk6 Jun 2025 #22
You honestly think... Happy Hoosier Jun 2025 #23
HARUMPH and AHEM... Montauk6 Jun 2025 #24
A month later, STILL not buying it... Montauk6 Jul 2025 #25
I don't. I think it'll become the MAGA Party and TACO/Butthead Jr will run in 2028. marble falls Jul 2025 #26
I don't buy it for one second... Cloudhopper Jul 2025 #27
'rasslmania, but both these blowhards are heels rampartd Jul 2025 #28
The clash is real, but temporary. Trump is at the end of his usefulness. Musk is also at the end of his shelf life. jmbar2 Jul 2025 #29
all the world is a stage stillcool Jul 2025 #30

wcmagumba

(5,661 posts)
1. Not this huckleberry....
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 07:17 PM
Jun 2025

I've got a nice monogramed tin hat but I think the two dough boys are still humpin in the backroom....

Marie Marie

(10,899 posts)
6. Gotta disagree - I think the clash of the gigantic egos and man baby demands that they
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 07:31 PM
Jun 2025

each get only what they want for themselves has begun. We all knew this was coming, I am surprised those two self-centered Narcissists managed to play together as long as they did. Just my humble opinion...

NYC Liberal

(20,445 posts)
7. I totally believe it and knew it was coming since the election.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 07:33 PM
Jun 2025

No conspiracy needed. It's just two of the biggest egos in the country in a room that isn't big enough for both. Neither of them has any real loyalty to anything other than themselves. Makes total sense.

stillcool

(34,407 posts)
9. too much play, without anything being said
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 07:55 PM
Jun 2025

and with Donald and the entire GOP I'd be a real fool to believe anything they put out.

newdeal2

(4,810 posts)
10. Sorry, I don't buy 5D chess play from Trump
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 07:58 PM
Jun 2025

Trump has had lots of nasty fallouts with friends before. Why would you say this is different?

Most of us predicted this from the beginning - two big egos not able to work with each other.

Gaugamela

(3,252 posts)
11. The budget bill is what they're trying to distract attention away from, which is what Trump tried
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 07:58 PM
Jun 2025

to do with the new travel bans and calling Biden a robot. This feud calls attention directly to the budget bill, and Musk has threatened republican congressional members with bankrolling primary challengers. Trump and republican leaders have been hiding from the press over the weekend, and after the drop in Tesla’s stock today I wouldn’t be surprised if Musk is fired by the Tesla board. I don’t see how this feud benefits either one of them.

moniss

(8,755 posts)
12. It seems to me like there is much more behind all of this.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 07:59 PM
Jun 2025

As though Edolph is purposely positioning himself for something and Crumb The 1st is in on the deal and playing along. Edolph saying Crumb The 1st is in the Epstein files is repeating what everybody has been saying for some years now. Even if Edolph had a copy and released it all that Crumb The 1st would have to do is call it a "fake" list and that he has the "real" list. That's just one example of how this doesn't strike me as being on the level between the two.

Wealthy people fight with money. They spend money to hurt the money of the one they're fighting with. I don't see that because any threat to Edolph's contracts will be shot down by the courts and Edolph knows it as well as Crumb The 1st since the courts have already been stepping in for others. So until they actually bring out the money "knives" and truly slash each other and not just make dubious threats I'm not buying the face value explanation being given about this.

Scrivener7

(58,399 posts)
13. I believe it. Taco is a malignant narcissist. He'd never agree to Elon saying he is the reason Taco is president.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 08:41 PM
Jun 2025

misanthrope

(9,380 posts)
16. Nope, some of us recall Trump's long history with pro wrestling
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 08:47 PM
Jun 2025

Musk's broadsides have no teeth and Trump's response was unusually tepid.

Hugin

(37,452 posts)
17. As unstable as the two are...
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 08:49 PM
Jun 2025

It may be real, but that doesn’t matter. They could be lapping up each other’s sauce again in fifteen minutes.

It’s the turbulence of these mutual fits that are going to tear the US asunder.

JCMach1

(29,094 posts)
18. I noted when he stepped in there would be a pool to determine
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 08:49 PM
Jun 2025

When they would throw Musk under the bus.

The fun part is he won't go quietly.

Attilatheblond

(8,320 posts)
19. I'm on the fence. Both need distractions from what is happening now to each but they are also both mentally ill
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 08:51 PM
Jun 2025

and each fancies himself king. Kinda surprised their nebulous partnership lasted this long, all things considered.

But, isn't the jobs report due soon? It's gonna look bad for both bozos so distraction mode might have become operational.

Then again, what's JD been up to lately. Yeah, my thinking goes that dark some days.

Montauk6

(9,305 posts)
22. Worked punches always LOOK real but how consequential is any of this?
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 09:06 AM
Jun 2025

Elon says Trump was on Epstein Island. So? Everybody knows THAT. Yes, we (i.e. the Public) know about the sex stuff. At the end of the day, IT DIDN'T, DOESN'T nor WILL IT matter.

Has he shut down Trump's Twitter account yet? That would be a "shoot" punch.
Is he trying to negotiate an immunity deal with law enforcement in swing states to prove how his techs helped rigged the election? That would be a "shoot" punch.

(BTW, I'm using pro wrestling jargon because, if Trump were to ever show up on Monday Night RAW, he would probably be introduced as "WWE Hall of Famer and President of the United States Donald J. Trump&quot

Is Trump shutting down DOGE? "Shoot" punch.

In fact, to my point of the whole "Reality TV" ballyhoo and weaponized distraction, this is what's NOT dominating any of the news cycles.

Supreme Court allows DOGE team to access Social Security systems with data on millions of Americans

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration two victories Friday in cases involving the Department of Government Efficiency, including giving it access to Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans.

The justices also separately reined in orders seeking transparency at DOGE, the team once led by billionaire Elon Musk.

The court's conservative majority sided with the Trump administration in the first Supreme Court appeals involving DOGE. The three liberal justices dissented in both cases.

The DOGE victories come amid a messy breakup between the president and the world's richest man that started shortly after Musk’s departure from the White House and has included threats to cut government contracts and a call for the president to be impeached. The future of DOGE’s work isn't clear without Musk at the helm, but both men have previously said that it will continue its efforts.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/supreme-court-allows-doge-team-to-access-social-security-systems-with-data-on-millions-of-americans/ar-AA1GeUBl


Don't get me wrong, MountainGuy, I'm sure these divas are genuinely miffed at each other, but I don't think their joint-venture diabolicalness is gonna be tweaked in any manner... or at least in a way that will BENEFIT us.

I'm just an old man drenched in cynicism, I guess...

Happy Hoosier

(9,404 posts)
23. You honestly think...
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 09:08 AM
Jun 2025

Either Trump or Musk has the discipline to take insults without ACTUALLY getting pissed? These are two of the thinnest skinned muthafuckers in history.

Montauk6

(9,305 posts)
24. HARUMPH and AHEM...
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 01:58 PM
Jun 2025
Elon Musk surrenders: World's richest man is caving to Trump after their epic feud
Story by Joey Garrison, USA TODAY • 20h • 6 min read

WASHINGTON – Perhaps a reconciliation was just as inevitable as the breakup that so many predicted.

Elon Musk, the billionaire tech entrepreneur and former top White House DOGE adviser, has gradually taken steps to restore his tattered relationship with President Donald Trump and surrender, just days after their alliance blew up in a spectacular war of words marked by personal insults and threats.

The early returns have Trump ‒ no stranger to scorched-earth fights ‒ coming out on top in the battle between the world's richest man and the world's most powerful man. Both own major social media platforms, but it doesn't hurt that the president is the one with the sway of the White House.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/elon-musk-surrenders-worlds-richest-man-is-caving-to-trump-after-their-epic-feud/ar-AA1GwKvu

(Am I surprised? No more than when Cody Rhodes "finished his story" winning the WWE Championship from Roman Reigns at Wrestlemania 39)

Cloudhopper

(165 posts)
27. I don't buy it for one second...
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 07:05 AM
Jul 2025

I wouldn't mind being proven wrong. I think he's just trying to make a spoiler party to keep R's in power, like the Green Party does..

rampartd

(3,854 posts)
28. 'rasslmania, but both these blowhards are heels
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 07:07 AM
Jul 2025

the real action is in their bitcoin reserve..

jmbar2

(7,650 posts)
29. The clash is real, but temporary. Trump is at the end of his usefulness. Musk is also at the end of his shelf life.
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 09:02 AM
Jul 2025

Musk, the Broligarchy, and the Russian axis used trump to get firmly implanted in the middle of America's government.
- Suck up all the data and disperse widely
- Censor data that doesn't support their motives
- Set up the control mechanisms - ICE mercenary army, surveillance, concentration camps
- Undermine opposition voices in coming elections through election manipulation, and splitting the vote on a 3rd party candidate.

Trump doesn't give a shit now about being president. He is too busy stuffing himself at the trough. However, he would like a Nobel peace prize, by "negotiating peace" in Israel and Ukraine after they are conquered by others. The Axis are happy to oblige him because they share the same goals of conquest.

Musk is more evil than Trump. Willing to mass murder the poor. But he's also vulnerable to manipulation by the Axis of Evil and the Broligarchy. They will spit him out if/when his usefulness is over.

JMHO, of course....

stillcool

(34,407 posts)
30. all the world is a stage
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 09:50 AM
Jul 2025

and Donald 'acted' in so many movies and tv shows prior to this latest gig. The current production tends to consistently fall short in the believability factor, but from some he still gets rave reviews! Guess that's show-biz

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