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So Awkward! Elon Humiliates Johnson Over Trump’s Bill!

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, News Commentary, Politics, Society & Culture

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk humiliates Speaker Mike Johnson over a GOP bill. Once allies, the two are now locked in a public feud, with Musk using his platform to torch Johnson—and ignore his calls.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:22.6

I'm here with Tim Miller.

0:23.6

We're going to be discussing round three of Ewan Musk versus Mike Johnson.

0:28.6

Just keeps getting better, juicier.

0:30.6

Has Mike Johnson won any rounds yet on the points?

0:33.6

He, no.

0:35.6

But he's not flustered. he maintains his very calm demeanor

0:40.5

uh amidst the barrage no knockouts it's just 10 to 9 on the scorecard for all three rounds

0:46.3

who's doing the rope a dope we don't know yet we'll figure it out you let me be thrown too many haymakers

0:51.4

here we'll see a little bit of sort of forthwall here we were were talking about doing this recording and Tim was like, well, I've already talked about it.

0:59.4

And in fact, we have talked about it. I think you and I've done two Elon recordings in a row at

1:04.0

this point. But it's an evolving storyline and it just got really a lot more interesting and

1:10.1

juicier in just the last hour.

1:12.2

We're recording this around 3.30 p.m. on Wednesday.

1:14.8

So I'm going to go through chronologically what happened.

1:18.2

And then Tim's just going to, you know, do his thing.

1:21.3

So this morning, it all starts this morning when Mike Johnson goes to the cameras and he says, look, I think

1:29.9

Elon's dead wrong about this bill that he wants to kill. It's weird because we talked about it for

1:35.5

20 minutes and then he did a 180. And then he has this. I called Elon. You didn't answer my call.

1:42.9

And, you know, poor Mike.

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