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Maga implodes as Trump, Musk go nuclear – with each other

Trump: ‘You’re cut off!’ Musk ‘You’re an Epstein paedophile! It couldn’t happen to two more deserving fascists

US ‘MAGA’ is in meltdown after Donald Trump and Elon Musk went nuclear with each other in what appears to be the fascist equivalent of cutting up your ex’s dresses or taking a baseball bat to their car. Or perhaps torching their car is more apt in this case.

Trump made the breakup final by destroying Musk’s expectation of an electric-vehicle mandate in Trump’s fascist so-called ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ that would have put billions in Musk’s pocket:

Trump had responded to outraged citizens torching Musk’s Tesla vehicles by selling them from the White House lawn, but now – typically – has no compunction about doing the complete opposite. Tesla’s already struggling stock price nosedived, wiping a reported $100bn, 14%, off its ‘market capitalisation’ in a day, on top of reported losses of almost a trillion dollars since Trump took power, leading to serious predictions that the Tesla board will move to oust Musk as CEO. Trump also suggested he could end any government contracts Musk or his companies hold.

Musk, in what many commentators have characterised as a drug-fuelled attack, posted on X that Trump appears in the ‘Epstein Files’ of figures enmeshed in the late alleged Israeli agent and paedophile child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s network and that this is the reason Trump has not released the full files:

This seemingly irretrievable mutual immolation seems certain to lead to Musk also losing his defence and other federal contracts, as well as his expected ‘EV’ bonanza.

The meltdown caused an implosion among ‘MAGA’ figures who have until now ridden on the joint tails of Trump and Musk together. Just a couple of notable examples are shown below:

MAGA rank and file tried desperately to cope, claiming this couldn’t be true because – well, anything they could think of, particularly that former president Joe Biden would have released the information, but that would require the big assumption that no leading Democrats are equally implicated. Musk’s post also implicates him in knowingly working with an alleged paedophile.

Others revelled in the pair’s self-destruction and MAGA’s agony:

16 comments

  1. Rats in a sack. More please.

    Let’s hope that the same happens with benny and beelzebub (smotrich), benny and donald, benny and keef, donald and keef,**, keef and mcswindle, keef and murdoch etc, etc, etc…

    **unlikely. They’ll need a bloody good surgeon to remove keef from the orange one’s colon…

  2. SURE, it’s edifying to see Trump. and Musk bicker like D-list celebrities (‘You’re in the Epstein files!”, “no I’m not, YOU are!!”), but it just highlights the oligarchic and anti-democratic nature of the Trump Administration.

    ** – In the 2024 election cycle, 150 BILLIONAIRES families spent a total of $1.9 billion supporting presidential and congressional candidates, highlighting the outsized influence of the ultra-wealthy in U.S. politics.

    ** – The total net worth of the billionaires involved in the incoming Trump administration exceeds $382 billion, with the Cabinet alone holding a net worth of over $450 billion, making it the richest in history.

    ** – Trump’s policies, such as tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy and deregulation, are expected to further concentrate wealth and power among the elite, reinforcing oligarchic tendencies.

    Musk aside, other Tech titans like Bezos, and Zuckerberg have direct access to Trump and will influence policy decisions to benefit their businesses and further weaken everyone else.

    “FOR THE MANY not the Few”?. A Trump cabinet worth $450 billion suggests not

    1. Good points QWERTY but the Democrats actually were backed by more billionaires showing both are big business parties when the US & the UK need new left parties for the diverse working class.
      The problem with the US & it’s politically appointed judges is you get bad law like the 2010 Supreme Court ruling which allowed billionaires to donate billions to political campaigning to promote their interests.
      This needs repealing & state funding of candidates so they put citizens first not big business & an independent judiciary would help.
      The electoral college should also be scrapped & Presidents elected on the popular vote, if they’d had this before, Trump the first time would have lost to Useless Clinton by 3m.
      Would also help if US political parties had members who made policy.
      US democracy needs seriously reforming yet they lecture the world and now under Lumpen Trump critical thinking seems to be being banned!

    1. yeah, but a prospective REFORM voter or two might stumble over and read this for the very first time. Happens!

      Skwawky’s more than just an echo chamber. He helps make socialists here (summut we should all try).

      1. And let’s not forget maybe some ‘Blue Labour’ types might get to see some truth here as well. Glasman, and no doubt his acolytes, is after all a Trump fanboy.

        Speaking at the Postliberalism Conference in December 2024, Glasman celebrated the victory of Donald Trump, which he said was “world historical”, and described it as “a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, interfaith, working-class coalition against progressives – that’s the enormity of what we’re talking about. Kamala Harris was for they/them, President Trump is for you. That’s all you really need to know about the American election”. Morgan Jones and David Klemperer, co-editors of Renewal, said that by choosing to align with the MAGA movement, Glasman sided with forces which threaten social democracy, and which today represent its primary antagonist.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Glasman,_Baron_Glasman

      2. WOW – thanks PW, every centrist (inc Reeves, Starmer, Blair and Brown etc) would rather have a Trump than a ‘For the Many, Not the Few’ in power?

  3. Off topic:

    By James Wright in The Canary:

    Rachel Reeves received £27,000 donation from the NHS’s new private landlord

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves received a £27,000 donation from FGS Global, a lobbying firm owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR). The thing is, KKR has its fingers in many pies and Reeves’ accepting the donation shows Labour’s priorities are in line with unbridled capitalist extraction. The Labour party itself also received around £17,000 from FGS Global in late May this year…

    Private equity firm KKR is the NHS’ new landlord after buying up our healthcare infrastructure for £1.6bn with Stonepeak Partners. These firms will now be renting our NHS buildings to us rather than simply owning them ourselves. And Labour is overseeing the continued privatisation – with Rachel Reeves actually benefitting from it…

    KKR also has large investments in fossil fuels. 78% of KKR’s energy portfolio companies are rooted in fossil fuels. One example is KKR’s £6.6bn funding of gas storage and transportation.

    Labour, meanwhile, is propping up the fossil fuel industry with a £22bn bung to carbon capture projects that don’t work. It has also refused to deliver a publicly owned Green New Deal, risking climate destruction through a more expensive market solution to the climate crisis…

    KKR also has investments in the UK Build to Rent sector, which turns homes into assets we must rent from the transnational capitalist class. In April, KKR expanded its UK real estate portfolio, buying up Build to Rent properties in the Slate Yard in Manchester for £100m.

    In February, Common Wealth warned that Labour’s 1.5m new homes risk being dominated by private equity firms in the Build to Rent sector like KKR. In Reeves’ budget, she pledged money for the Build to Rent sector in order to ‘crowd in’ private investment. That’s instead of treating homes as necessary shelter provided publicly and mandated as affordable to all…

    KKR has also faced boycotts because of its links to illegal Israeli settlements in the Palestinian West Bank. This includes KKR’s major investment in German media company Axel Springer, which runs ads for illegal Israeli developments in occupied Palestine.

    Labour, meanwhile, has continued selling arms to Israel.

    It’s clear KKR encompasses the worst of capitalist excess. And Labour are all for it too.

    https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/06/06/rachel-reeves-donation-kkr/

    1. Reeves’ voters in Leeds West should be having fits! KKR owns chunks of the NHS and Israel’s cybersecurity companies, weapons manufacturers, and data centres. Nancy Astor and KKR – Rachel Reeves seems to admire the most unpleasant types

      1. “Reeves’ voters in Leeds West should be having fits!”

        Well that depends on how widely – or not – the MSM have covered it, and I don’t think they have, generally speaking. The i Paper covered it, but that’s the only one I spotted in the results when I did a search. But I came across the following from December 10th last year:

        Labour Donors Lobbied the New Government on Behalf of Fossil Fuel Giants

        Major oil and gas firms are being represented by lobbyists that have given more than £300,000 in support to Keir Starmer’s party.

        Seven lobbying firms that have collectively donated or gifted more than £314,000 to the party since 2022 have helped clients – including Shell, Equinor, and British Gas owner Centrica – to attempt to influence the government since July’s election.

        Consultancy Global Counsel, which also has close connections with the Labour Party, declared that it attempted to lobby the government on behalf of Shell, and Anglo American, a multinational mining company that is a major coal producer.

        Prior to the 4 July election, the company provided a staff member to current Economic Secretary to the Treasury Tulip Siddiq – a donation in kind worth £35,835, according to the register of MPs’ financial interests.

        Global Counsel was founded by former New Labour Cabinet minister Peter Mandelson, who serves as its president. Mandelson, who is currently a Labour peer, was previously reported to be a member of Labour leader Keir Starmer’s team of advisors.

        FGS Global lobbied the government on behalf of boiler company Intergas Heating, and KKR, a global private equity firm that holds investments in 188 fossil fuel assets according to April’s Private Equity Climate Risks report.

        Chancellor Rachel Reeves declared that FGS Global provided her with a campaign advisor between February and May this year, a donation in kind worth more than £17,000. The firm also funded a further £12,929 of “logistical costs” for Reeves at the Labour Party conference in October.

        https://www.desmog.com/2024/12/10/labour-donors-lobbied-the-new-government-on-behalf-of-fossil-fuel-giants/

      2. And also the following from a BBC News article in August last year:

        Chancellor Rachel Reeves is facing questions about the appointment of a Labour Party donor to a senior Treasury role.

        The BBC has been told that former banker Ian Corfield was brought in to help deliver an international investment summit in October.

        In opposition, Labour frequently accused the Conservatives of “cronyism” in appointing their political friends to public bodies.

        Over the past decade Mr Corfield has donated a total of £20,000 to Labour MPs, including £5,000 to Rachel Reeves in July 2023.

        Previous donations included Labour’s former deputy leader Tom Watson in 2015 and 2017.

        And under the sub-heading ‘Exception’ it says the follwing:

        According to his LinkedIn profile, external, Mr Corfield previously provided business advice to the Labour Party for seven months, and before that held senior roles in financial services. Until recently, he was also a director of Labour-supporting news website LabourList.

        He was appointed as director of investment at the Treasury without going through the usual application process. This is allowed when the commission is satisfied a fair and open competition is not feasible, for example because of an urgent need to recruit or a role’s short duration.

        So-called “exceptions” to the normal rules have been granted more than 100 times in the past 12 months. (my emphasis)

        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd7y8evel7o

  4. ” ……Trump appears in the ‘Epstein Files’ of figures enmeshed in the late alleged Israeli agent and paedophile child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s network …… ”

    Should we be surprised that Epstein (a member of USA’s Trilateral Commission) is no longer alive !! ??

    1. The world will be a better place when we can say the same about every current and nominal former member of that organisation.

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