{"id":19537,"date":"2025-06-07T17:29:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T17:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=19537"},"modified":"2025-06-07T17:29:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T17:29:47","slug":"trump-confronted-musk-in-private-before-their-blowout-public-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=19537","title":{"rendered":"Trump Confronted Musk in Private Before Their Blowout Public Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"incArticle\">\n<p>This week, president Donald Trump and Elon Musk&#8217;s dangerous blood burst into public view \u2014 however apparently, it had been brewing behind the scenes for a while.<\/p>\n<p>In a large expos\u00e9 wanting behind the scenes of the yr&#8217;s largest breakup, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/06\/us\/politics\/trump-musk-split-nasa.html\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\"><em>New York Times<\/em> revealed<\/a> that the pair was already squabbling\u00a0instantly after Musk&#8217;s now-infamous farewell celebration \u2014 sure, the one which Musk confirmed as much as with a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-black-eye-drug-claims\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">mysterious black eye<\/a> and a weird excuse.<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with White Home insiders who requested that the <em>NYT <\/em>maintain them nameless, Trump discovered simply forward of Musk&#8217;s now-infamous ultimate Oval Workplace assembly final week that aviator Jared Isaacman, the billionaire&#8217;s decide to guide NASA, had in recent times been a big-time donor to Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Although many donations are public and simply accessible on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/donor-lookup\/results?name=jared+isaacman\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">databases like OpenSecrets<\/a>, the data in that file was apparently information to the president. After enjoying good throughout Musk&#8217;s televised farewell, Trump apparently made his displeasure with the state of affairs identified.<\/p>\n<p>Through the confrontation, Trump learn the names out loud \u2014 which names, we do not know, as a result of the\u00a0<em>NYT<\/em> did not reveal them \u2014 whereas reportingly shaking his head. This wasn&#8217;t good, he informed Musk.<\/p>\n<p>Making an attempt to defend his decide, Musk insisted that Isaacman&#8217;s donations could possibly be spun positively as proof that Trump, himself a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/07\/21\/politics\/donald-trump-election-democrat\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">former registered Democrat<\/a>, was prepared to rent individuals from totally different political backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>The president, nevertheless, wasn&#8217;t shopping for it, and instructed it confirmed solely that the <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/jared-isaacman-spacex-hubble\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">well-heeled SpaceX customer<\/a> was a turncoat.<\/p>\n<p>Isaacman&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/trump-elon-musk-jared-isaacman-nomination-nasa\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">nomination was ultimately rescinded<\/a> after that tense change on the finish of Could. And in line with the <em>NYT<\/em>&#8216;s unnamed insiders, that debacle was the tipping level that took his rising frustrations with the president to nuclear ranges. Inside only a few days, Musk started posting in regards to the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1929954109689606359\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">abomination<\/a>&#8221; that\u00a0he take into account&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s 2025 funds and tax proposal to be \u2014 and added in an obvious <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/elon-musk-trump-epstein-files\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">pedophilia allegation<\/a> for good measure.<\/p>\n<p>The president, to his finish, responded publicly to Musk&#8217;s barbs the one approach he is aware of how: with cruelty and aplomb. Together with <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/trump-calls-terminating-elon-musk-government-contracts\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">threatening to cancel<\/a> SpaceX&#8217;s NASA contracts, Trump allegedly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/06\/us\/politics\/trump-tesla-elon-musk.html\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">per more reporting from the <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>, determined to promote the cherry-red Tesla he bought in March &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114141854575248527\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">as a show of support and confidence<\/a>&#8221; for Musk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Extra on the Musk-Trump drama:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-trump-doge-slump\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\"><em>Elon and Trump\u2019s Breakup Results In Hilarious Consequences For Dogecoin<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/trump-confronted-musk-privately\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, president Donald Trump and Elon Musk&#8217;s dangerous blood burst into public view \u2014 however apparently, it had been brewing behind the scenes for a while. In a large expos\u00e9 wanting behind the scenes of the yr&#8217;s largest breakup, the New York Times revealed that the pair was already squabbling\u00a0instantly after Musk&#8217;s now-infamous farewell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7413,5950,2499,793,2481,863,57],"class_list":["post-19537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-blowout","tag-confronted","tag-fight","tag-musk","tag-private","tag-public","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}