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All In with Chris Hayes

Musk turns on GOP, suggests ‘we fire all politicians' who voted for MAGA bill

All In with Chris Hayes

MSNBC

Biden, Climate Change, Politics, Washington, Policy, Congress, Election, News, Trump, Government, President, Democracy, Senate, Msnbc

4.65.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Guests: Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Sarah Longwell, Jared Bernstein, Rep. Ro Khanna, Rep. Rob Menendez, Imari Jones Democrats literally roll out the TACO truck as Trump announces new tariffs and new deadlines. Plus, get ready for an easier way for the president to profit through anonymous payments. Then, accusations of "false arrest and malicious prosecution:” the new lawsuit against Trump's former lawyer. And as the Trump administration targets a gay trailblazer, new data on the real world impacts from MAGA attacks on the LGBTQ community.

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0:00.0

Good evening from New York. I'm Antonia Hilton. I'm in for Chris Hayes tonight.

0:08.5

Elon Musk, the unelected billionaire who left the White House just last week, is now whipping

0:13.2

votes against Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill.

0:17.4

Take a look at the tweet, which I'm told we do have Freddie here from Elon Musk, who says,

0:22.7

I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore.

0:24.8

This massive, outrageous, pork-filled congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.

0:30.0

Shame on those who voted for it.

0:31.9

You know you did wrong.

0:33.4

You know it.

0:34.8

In a follow-up post, Musk added this, quote,

0:37.7

In November next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people.

0:43.5

Now, contrast that with the much more diplomatic tone Musk had just a few days ago.

0:50.1

I'm a little stuck in a bind where I'm like, well, I don't want to, you know, speak out against the administration, but I don't want to, I also don't want to take responsibility for everything the administration is doing.

1:04.2

But then on Sunday, something changed. Trump pulled the nomination of Musk's close collaborator and to be NASA administrator,

1:13.1

a billionaire named Jared Isaacman.

1:15.7

And so now the bill is a, quote, disgusting abomination.

1:19.2

But Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson disagrees with Musk.

1:23.2

It's very disappointed, okay?

1:25.2

I've come to consider Elon a good friend. But with all due respect, my friend Elon is terribly wrong about the one big beautiful bill.

1:33.7

We had a long conversation yesterday. He and I spoke for I think more than 20 minutes on the telephone, and I stole all the virtues of the bill.

1:40.9

He seemed to understand that. We had a very friendly conversation about it,

1:44.6

but for him to come out and hand the whole bill is to be just very disappointing, very surprising

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