There has been a falling out at the White House. I know, shocking. What I am surprised at is that there hasn’t been more. In this case, the fallout is between Elon Musk, Trump's former head of the Department of Government Efficiency, which, by the way, is a made-up department, and Trump himself. What they are fighting about is what surprises me. They are fighting over Trump's “Big Beautiful Bill”. Now, don’t start thinking that Musk has seen the light. Musk’s big complaint with the bill was that it is going to increase the deficit. People have been talking about that all along. That is what giving to billionaires does to the deficit: it makes it grow. It has been that way since Reagan, and it is still that way today. It will also be that way tomorrow. They have tried to tell us they will pay for themselves. That has never happened. They have said that it will create jobs. That has never happened in the numbers we were led to believe. What it has created is a group for people who think their money gives them power, power they think should go unchecked by the government and the people.

There is a lot of mud-slinging now between Trump and Musk. It all started after Musk left the Trump Administration and started lobbying against Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”. Musk has called the bill a “disgusting abomination” and posted, “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong”. He has stated that the bill was irresponsible because it added to the national debt. He encouraged his followers to phone their Representatives to express their opposition to the bill. Trump had a news conference with the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, saying, “I'm very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here. All of a sudden, he has a problem.”

I, too, was surprised Musk seemed surprised the bill would add to the deficit. Since before the election, experts had been saying that Trump would add to the deficit. When was the last Republican President who didn’t add to the deficit? Eisenhower maybe? Republicans have always talked about fiscal Responsibility, but only when there was a Democrat in the White House.

Trump suggested Musk was upset about the removal of the subsidies and mandates for electric vehicles that would affect Musk's Tesla business. Musk countered, “Keep the EV/solar incentive cuts in the bill. Even though no oil & gas subsidies are touched (very unfair!!), But ditch the MOUNTAIN of DISGUSTING PORK in the bill.” I just want to know what planet Musk has been on for the last nine years. The motto of the Republican Party has been “drill, baby, drill”. They want to open up huge sections of the National Forest to oil exploration. They pretty much want to give the oil company carte blanche to drill for oil. Trump has always talked about expanding oil and abandoning any green initiatives that were in place, and that is what driving an electric car is: it is a green initiative. That is one of the reasons why I thought that a Trump/Musk alliance was always headed for a disaster. One of Trump's goals has always been to do away with electric cars. That is why I always thought it was a strange alliance and why I wondered if Musk truly believed in his own car business. Many of his core customers were those people who believed in Climate Change and that buying a Tesla was their way of helping the planet. Musk became best buds and working partners with the Trump Administration, which was, in a way, turning his back on the people who had supported his business, the believers in Climate Change. To put it bluntly, Musk joined the “climate deniers”.

Musk has been very aggressive on Twitter and posted, “Without me, Trump would have lost the election. Dems would control the House, and the Republicans would be 51-49  in the Senate.”  He also posted asking his followers, “Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle?” Not a bad idea, but one I am sure Musk would never do. Musk has posted a tweet calling for Trump to resign and that his global tariff plan will trigger a recession. Many people have said the same thing about Trump’s tariffs since before the election, so for Musk to speak up now instead of before Trump was elected, he looks like a man who is acting more like a spiteful ex-wife than a concerned businessman. Musk sunk millions and millions into the Trump campaign, knowing that Trump was a big fan of using tariffs as a form of revenge and control over other countries around the globe. To speak up now just shows the depth of his lust for power and has nothing to do with the good of the country or even his businesses.

Musk has also tweeted, without proof, that Trump's name is all over the Epstein Report. Most of us have believed that from the very beginning. Some people believe that Epstein’s death was not a suicide.  If Musk had information about Trump and Epstein, I would think it would have been his duty to have made that information public before the election. Are we to believe that he supported a suspected pedophile to be President of the United States? I have always believed the entire Epstein report should have been released years ago. Many of us feel the only reason it hasn’t been is because of all the Rich and Powerful people who, if they had done wrong, have no business being protected in the first place.

Trump has now threatened to take away all of Musk's subsidies and government contracts. Let's face it, much of Musk's wealth has been built on money from the government, taxpayers' money.  What we have been witnessing is two very corrupt billionaires who have no regard for the American people whom they harm and the Constitution that they defy every day.