Like the rest of Trump Regime Media, WorldNetDaily has been a promoter of Elon Musk’s DOGE claims of discovered waste in government. Bob Unruh gushed of Musk in a May 30 article:
When billionaire Elon Musk, whose Tesla, X and SpaceX companies routinely lead the nation in tech accomplishments, started working with President Donald Trump on the Department of Government Efficiency, he said he hoped to save taxpayers a trillion dollars, or more.
The DOGE plan, after all, was to cut out corruption, fraud and waste in government spending, and it has been on the job since Trump’s inauguration, already saving, according to estimates, each taxpayer about $1,000.
One tracking software estimated DOGE already had saved Americans about $170 billion.
Unruh didn’t mention all the times that claims of savings were removed from the DOGE website because they weren’t true. Nevertheless, WND published a May 31 column by Josh Hammer fawningly headlined “Musk’s worthy DOGE work: May it not be in vain.”
That tone changed a few days later, however, as noted in an anonymously written June 3 article:
Elon Musk, President Trump’s former chief of DOGE, held nothing back over his opposition to the Republicans’ “Big Beautiful Bill” Tuesday, posting on his platform X that is outrageous and “a disgusting abomination.”
Wrote Musk: “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”
Besides increasing spending, the bill raises the federal debt ceiling by $5 trillion. U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., one of two GOP votes against the bill in the House had a two-word reply to Musk’s post: “He’s right.”
In recent days, Musk has distanced himself from the administration, both officially and in his comments about the massive spending bill.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about Musk’s post during Tuesday’s press briefing, dismissing the complaint and emphasizing that President Trump is “sticking to” his promotion of the bill, which the House passed and is pending in the U.S. Senate.
Unruh noted that Musk ramped things up further in a June 5 article:
SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk, who has been working for months now with President Donald Trump in the Department of Government Efficiency to eliminate criminal activity, fraud, waste and corruption from the government, unleashed what amounts to a nuclear bomb in his battle with Trump now.
The two have had a falling out over the congressional plan to implement some of President Trump’s agenda points: cutting some spending, making tax cuts permanent and such. Musk appears to want much bigger spending cuts while Trump is faced with the reality of a Congress where he has only a slim majority in the House, and split factions among the GOP members.
Musk recently left his role as a special government employee working with DOGE, which reports having found some $170 billion in waste that has been cut.
Trump said he asked Musk to leave, and suggested cutting government contracts with Musk, such as for use of the SpaceX ships to reach space; Musk responded with a threat to decommission SpaceX ships so they would not be available for the government.
Then Musk unleashed his big shot.
“Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files,” he said.
Note how it took Unruh six paragraphs to get to the actual accusation. He then immediately tried to equivocate things:
Jeffrey Epstein, dead by apparent suicide several years ago while in jail awaiting further sex crime charges, reportedly had connections to some of the biggest names in America, including Bill Clinton, who traveled to Epstein’s island, and Bill Gates.
Musk offered no evidence for his claim. But he called for Trump to be impeached.
Still, Unruh was quick to do his Trump Regime Media duty of trying to quickly turn the page on the feud in a June 6 article:
The day-long word war between Tesla and X billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump may be reaching a détente.
The two had worked together on the president’s Department of Government Efficiency for months, and reportedly had found about$170 billion in spending to cut in their war on criminal activity, waste, fraud and corruption.
Then, when the House adopted a piece of legislation turning many of Trump’s executive orders into law, Musk erupted in frustration that it didn’t cut enough.
[…]White House aides tried to organize a call and Musk, late Thursday “tried to de-escalate,” according to a report in the Daily Mail.
Trump even had called for Musk to be deported, and Musk’s stock dropped billions in value as traders fled his companies.
“Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman stepped into the fray, posting a plea on X for the two men to reconcile ‘for the benefit of our great country,’ warning that ‘we are much stronger together than apart,'” the report explained.
Musk responded, “You’re not wrong.”
The comment appeared to some as an olive branch, and reports said the two megawealthy men would speak Friday.
Trump, in a late-night interview, shrugged off the feud, explaining, “It’s okay.”
Unruh touted some very emo stuff going on between Musk and Trump in a June 11 article:
Musk has apologized, conceding some of his comments went too far.
And Trump has confirmed he could work through his reactions, and come to “no hard feelings.”
A report from Fox News revealed Trump said in a new interview he’s open to reconciliation.
We thought right-wingers like Musk and Trump weren’t big on emotion.