Elon Musk's messy breakup with Trump
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The Washington Post
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🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann break down the Republican drama surrounding President Trump's signature "Big, beautiful bill" – starting with the dramatic social media breakup occurring between Trump and Elon Musk. And are GOP senators on board with Trump's plan?
Then, Trump seems to be reacting to that drama by creating distractions – from a new travel ban to a dubious investigation of his predecessor.
Plus, former president Joe Biden's former White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, says she's leaving the Democratic Party. Why?
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| 0:00.0 | Look what happened. Is this crazy? We stand on the verge of the four greatest years in the |
| 0:07.4 | history. Make America great victory. How can you be against them? |
| 0:16.9 | This is Sidebar from The Washington Post. I'm Libby Casey, and I'm here with Rhonda Colvin and James |
| 0:22.1 | Homan. And my friends, should we ever have to part ways, let us not berate each other on Twitter, |
| 0:28.4 | now known as X? Can you even imagine? Messy breakups are tough enough, but when it happens in front |
| 0:34.6 | of the public eye and on a social media platform, ouch. |
| 0:38.3 | Well, we are in the middle of watching that between two major characters of our national drama right now, |
| 0:43.3 | Elon Musk and President Donald Trump. |
| 0:46.3 | Elon was core to Trump's plan to remake the federal government. |
| 0:49.3 | Now, he left government service one week ago? |
| 0:52.3 | I can't believe. |
| 0:53.3 | So recently, he received a golden key |
| 0:55.8 | from Trump on his way out, but now the parting is maybe not such sweet sorrow because |
| 1:01.5 | Trump and Musk are at war on X, and Trump is saying all of this out loud. Let's listen to |
| 1:07.8 | President Trump's remarks. I'm very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost |
| 1:15.0 | anybody sitting here, better than you people. He knew everything about it. He had no problem |
| 1:19.4 | with it. All of a sudden he had a problem. And he only developed the problem when he found out |
| 1:23.5 | that we're going to have to cut the EV mandate because that's billions and billions of dollars. |
| 1:27.7 | And if you saw the statements he made about me, which I'm sure you can get very easily, |
| 1:31.1 | it's very fresh on tape. |
| 1:33.5 | He said the most beautiful things about me. |
| 1:35.9 | And he hasn't said bad about me personally, but I'm sure that'll be next. |
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