“All the political and media stooges got their new commands and are now repeating the same message to drive a wedge between @realDonaldTrump and me,” Musk said.
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Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman of New York warned Thursday night that Elon Musk would offer President-elect Donald Trump a “windfall” if the new commander-in-chief carried out the X’s owner’s bidding.
The Tesla CEO was successful in his efforts to take down a continuing resolution that was set to allow the government to remain funded through Christmas, forcing Speaker Mike Johnson back to the drawing board.
Musk tweeted opposing the bill on Wednesday before Trump followed suit, pushing for it to be rejected. President Mike Johnson then withdrew the bill before introducing a shorter edition on Thursday that he rejected despite support from both Musk and Trump.
Goldman gave that impression on MSNBC shortly before Thursday’s vote on the new spending package.
“Congressman, it occurs to me the Founders, they made their mistakes, but they had one president, I think, for a reason,” host Chris Hayes told Goldman. “You’re sort of seeing the problem with the co-president model. If the two co-presidents don’t agree, it’s hard to get anywhere. The two co-presidents-elect, I guess. But I can’t actually understand who’s where on what that you can get a path forward.”
“Let’s make one thing clear: it turns out that there is only one president. It’s Elon Musk, who has his own very selfish view of everything, adding the fact that he was looking to remove restrictions on. . . U. S. corporations that make an investment in China. I wonder why,” Goldman told Hayes, in all likelihood referring to a giant Tesla factory in Shanghai, Mediaite noted.
“He has his own interests similar to his own federal contracts, his own business interests,” he added. “He has no idea how the government works or how it works. But he only spent about $300 million to elect Donald Trump. There is rumors that he will use X to buy or merge with Truth Social, which would be a huge blessing for Donald Trump.
Goldman went on to say that Musk had Trump “in a bind as if he were a vice. “
“It’s very transparent that Elon Musk is now taking the lead. There’s no way Donald Trump wouldn’t have known about those negotiations for weeks and weeks,” Goldman said. “And the fact that he lowered the debt ceiling to 11 hours after . . . Mike Johnson and the Republicans reaching a bipartisan agreement is absurd. But it’s thanks to Elon Musk.
Goldman said: “We have to face reality”: “right now we have President Elon Musk. “
“And Trump? Maybe he’s vice president, I guess. Vice presidents don’t do much, so it makes sense. He might just be the staff leader. I don’t know what they call it, but he’s not. ” who decides,” Goldman said.
Musk wrote on X Friday morning: “The political and legacy media puppets all got their new instructions yesterday and are now parroting the same message to drive a wedge between @realDonaldTrump and me. They will fail.”
Tech journalist Kara Swisher said in an appearance on CNN last month that Truth Social and X could merge to become a larger “propaganda outlet. “
“He’s going to use it as a means of propaganda, that’s why he bought it,” he said of Musk and his social media platform.
A Forbes study found earlier this year that three court rulings reimbursed Trump $574 million. The outlet estimates that the president-elect has $410 million in money and about $9 billion in assets, adding up to about $6 billion in inventory at his social media company.
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