MAGA Republicans respond to Trump-Musk fallout
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump invested a lot of political capital in Elon Musk. And Elon Musk invested a lot of money in Donald Trump. Will their bust up cost them both?
Also on the programme, who are the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and what is known about them? And we meet Pedro Urruchurtu, one of the Venezuelan opposition figures who spent over a year in Argentina's embassy in Caracas, and who was subsequently rescued by the USA in "Operation Guacamaya."
(Photo: Elon Musk (L) and Donald Trump (R) face each other in March 2025. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour live from the BBC World Service in London. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm Rebecca Kesb. |
| 0:10.1 | Who could have predicted that the so-called bromance between the tech billionaire Elon Musk |
| 0:15.4 | and the US President Donald Trump would end badly? |
| 0:18.7 | Well, frankly, just about every Washington commentator did predict |
| 0:22.9 | a fallout, but one so bitter, so public, and so potentially damaging to each side, the rapid |
| 0:29.6 | descent into ferocious insults and threats delivered via social media has had the world gripped |
| 0:35.9 | and the US networks struggling to keep up with the latest |
| 0:39.3 | as the president blasts Musk that he's lost his mind and Elon Musk demanding Donald Trump is |
| 0:45.5 | impeached. Happy Friday to you. We begin with that feud between Elon Musk and President Trump |
| 0:51.3 | exploding and the consequences could be significant. |
| 0:55.1 | Yeah, it all started with Trump's budget bill quickly grew to include the results of the election |
| 0:59.9 | Musk's government contracts, even the Jeffrey Epstein files. |
| 1:02.8 | It is getting ugly and personal, 16 social posts in all, 15 of them in a four-hour period. |
| 1:09.8 | The president said Musk had gone crazy and threatened to cancel his lucrative government contracts. |
| 1:15.7 | Musk wrote, such ingratitude and claim that Trump could not have won the presidency without him. |
| 1:22.1 | Well, tensions have been simmering for a while with Elon Musk taking against Donald Trump's signature Big Beautiful Bill |
| 1:28.9 | that amongst other things promises huge tax breaks, but Mr Musk claims it will plunge the US into crippling debt. |
| 1:36.3 | He's called the bill a disgusting abomination and the explosive verbal brawl to rival even the best soap opera |
| 1:43.4 | lovers Tiff began from there. It's a long way from the gentle verbal brawl to rival even the best soap opera. |
| 1:46.1 | Lovers Tiff began from there. |
| 1:48.7 | It's a long way from the gentle loving from the two men shared in Pennsylvania. |
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