“Not going quietly”

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace on Trump and Elon Musk’s escalating public feud, Republicans attempting to undermine the CBO’s credibility, and the latest iteration of Trump’s travel ban. Joined by: Teddy Schleifer, Angelo Carusone, Mara Gay, Courtenay Brown, Allen Orr, Kristy Greenberg, David Jolly, Rep. Jim Himes, and Andy Hazelton.

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0:00.0	Hi there, everybody.
0:09.5	Buckle up and pop some popcorn.
0:11.8	It's 4 o'clock in New York.
0:13.2	The alliance between the world's richest man and the world's most powerful Donald Trump
0:18.8	is imploding right now in real time before our very eyes, with Trump
0:23.0	and Musk tearing into each other inside the Oval Office and online. It appears that Elon Musk,
0:29.5	after donating $277 million of his own money to the Trump campaign, after serving as Donald Trump's
0:36.6	political heat shield for the first five months of his second presidency, did so while doing permanent damage to his business empire to the federal government and his personal reputation and legacy. But after all that, even Elon Musk is not immune from the golden rule that for Trump, loyalty is a one-way street.
0:57.0	But Musk is not going quietly into the night.
1:01.1	After days of Musk trashing Donald Trump's signature domestic policy, his big ugly bill, as Elon Musk called it,
1:10.2	Trump finally broke his silence.
1:12.4	Watch.
1:13.9	Elon knew the inner workings of this bill
1:16.7	better than almost anybody sitting here.
1:19.0	And he only developed the problem when he found out
1:21.1	that we're going to have to cut the EV mint.
1:23.0	He knew every aspect of this bill.
1:24.8	He knew it better than almost anybody.
1:27.2	And he never had a problem
1:28.2	until right after he left. He said the most beautiful things about me. And he hasn't said bad
1:33.2	about me personally, but I'm sure that'll be next. Well, Trump was right about that. That is indeed
1:40.3	what is happening next. Musk, who's now a former special government employee with basically the same status as the
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