Everything Trump Touches Dies (And Elon Should've Known Better)

The Lincoln Project

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This week, Rick's Elephant in the Room reflects on the fallout of Elon Musk and Trump (the girls are fighting!). Elon should have heeded Rick's golden rule or read his book, Everything Trump Touches Dies, to fully understand what he was signing up for. Watching the fiery tweets ping-ponging back and forth this week, Trump seems to have finally met his match. Waiting to see what happens next, what if Elon turning on Trump evolves into the ultimate redemption story? We're not holding our breath quite yet, but we ARE entertained. Enjoy the sh*tshow, folks! ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ Follow Rick Wilson at @TheRickWilson on X and @therickwilson.bsky.social on Bluesky, and subscribe to his Substack at therickwilson.substack.com. Join the fight with the Lincoln Project at www.lincolnproject.us and follow LP on X at @ProjectLincoln. If you'd like to help us continue our critical work, visit https://action.lincolnproject.us/helplp to make a difference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Your task will not be an easy one.
0:02.5	Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battlehardt.
0:06.2	There is not a liberal America and a conservative America.
0:09.9	There is the United States of America.
0:14.8	Good night and good luck.
0:16.5	Hey, everybody.
0:18.0	Look, the elephant in the room today is that everything Trump touches dies and Elon should have known better.
0:28.2	I'm recording this at 546 on Thursday afternoon. For the last eight hours, Donald Trump and Elon Musk have been flaming the living shit out of each other on Twitter.
0:42.1	It's amazing. It's hilarious. It's gone from, I hope Elon and I have a friendship still to
0:50.4	Elon basically saying Donald Trump's in the Epstein files.
0:58.1	The roller coaster is ratcheting up and up and up.
1:00.0	The White House is in a panic.
1:03.3	I mean a panic.
1:08.9	They are in absolute mortal terror right now where this is headed.
1:14.1	Elon does know things. He does know some family secrets.
1:22.3	I was just told by somebody about five minutes ago. They're most worried, not about Trump and Epstein of Elon saying something there, they're most worried about Elon disclosing things the Super PAC did during the campaign.
1:33.8	Oh, really. Really? Really. Really.
1:44.5	Donald Trump is a political force of nature.
1:50.9	But Donald Trump depends on two things, two normative forces inside the GOP that are the most powerful elements of his control of the party.
2:00.9	The first is Fox News.
2:04.0	Prima and Drapare is of this deal, perhaps, but a declining asset in control of the Trump
2:11.4	base.
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