The war of words and tweets between Donald Trump and his top donor Elon Musk just went nuclear.
As the former DOGE chief and POTUS tossed slings and arrows at each other over the president’s “Big Beautiful Bill’s” effect on the federal deficit and whether or not the SpaceX owner put the Republican back in power, Musk dropped “the really big bomb.” After almost over a year connected to Trump at the hip, spending hundreds of millions on his 2024 campaign, and charging through the federal government’s inner sanctums like a rabid bill in a China shop, Musk truly went full Little Boy and Fat Man.
Less than a week after he was literally tossed out of the White House with praise and a golden key, Musk today claimed POTUS “is in the Epstein files.” He added: “That is the real reason they have not been made public.”
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As Trump cancels Musk’s billions in government contracts, and Musk says “Yes” to a post calling for the former Apprentice host to resign and VP JD Vance move into the Oval Office, the reaction to the Epstein remark exploded online – even as Fox News and the rest of the mainstream media essentially ignored it.
Trump himself this afternoon ignored questions about Musk’s allegation, while attending a law enforcement event with Attorney General Pam Bondi and other administration officials
In many ways, UK broadcaster, Trump buddy, and ex-Apprentice Piers Morgan contestant summed it all up with an emoji complimented “Holy sh*t”
As Musk’s tweet hits over 42 million views in less than an hour, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins offered up perhaps the second best response to the implication that the President of the United States, who already is a convicted felon and implicated in a sexual assault, is a pedophile – with even greater brevity.
Collins’ CNN colleague Jake Tapper was a bit more polite than Morgan but the sentiment was the same.
While it has never been a secret that the now dead and disgraced billionaire Epstein and Trump were party pals back in the 1990s, Trump has always denied he had anything to do with his indicted and arrested friend’s disgusting penchant for young girls.
Still, inside the Beltway Thursday a swath of other Trump critics got their popcorn ready for the rumble unfolding in near real time.
George Conway wrote, “The opening drive in the Super Bowl of Sociopathy has begun!!” Surprisingly longtime Trump foe, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) wrote of Musk’s Epstein claim: “I can’t believe he went there.”
Also from the halls of Congress, Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY) linked to Musk’s Epstein post and wrote, “I called for the full release of the Epstein Files a month ago because of my suspicion that @AGPamBondi was concealing the files to protect Donald Trump. Now my suspicion has been confirmed. Release the #EpsteinFiles now!” Echoing words that usually come from Republicans, fellow Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) wrote, “This tweet from Elon Musk shows, again, that I was right: Trump is all over the Epstein files. I urge the Department of Justice to release all the Epstein files. What is the Trump Administration hiding?”
Mehdi Hasan observed: “The funny thing about this is that Musk, by attacking Trump, is admitting that he funded the guy in the Epstein files. Neither of them come out well from this.”
Check out some of the other responses to Musk’s Trump and Epstein revelation:
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