The Daily Blast: Why Trump-Musk Feud Is Suddenly Driving White House into “Full Panic”

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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As you’ve surely heard, the feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has erupted, with the two men trading attacks on each other for hours. As of this recording, the last big things to happen are that Trump threatened to cut off all government contracts to Musk’s companies, and Musk then dropped what he called a “big bomb”—that Trump is in the "Epstein files." Former GOP strategist and Never Trumper Rick Wilson grasps the inner pathologies of MAGA like no one else, so we talked to Wilson about the latest Trump-Musk madness. He offers a counterintuitive take on why Musk’s attacks on Trump will trigger MAGA’s paranoid obsessions in an unexpectedly explosive way, why he thinks Musk has more weapons in this battle than Trump does, and why the White House has almost certainly entered into a “full panic” about where this is all going. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.4	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:32.0	As you've surely heard by now, the feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has erupted,
0:35.4	with the two men trading attacks on each other for hours.
0:39.0	As of this recording, the last big things to happen are that Trump threatened to cut off all government contracts to Musk's companies, and Musk then
0:44.8	dropped what he called a big bomb, which is that Trump is in the Epstein files. Musk also called for
0:51.2	Trump to be impeached. What strikes us about this feud, though, is that each one
0:56.3	accidentally revealed just how corrupt they really are. And this also provided a weirdly revealing
1:02.4	glimpse into the soul of Maga into how fundamentally empty and hollow it all is. There's
1:08.3	nothing there. Nothing is ever real. Today, we're lucky to be digging
1:12.9	through this monk with someone who dissects the pathologies of MAGA like no one else alive.
1:18.2	Former GOP strategist turned never-Trump or Rick Wilson. Thanks for coming on, Rick.
1:23.3	Hey, thanks Greg, thanks for having me. It's been a hell of a day. Sure has. Well, let's quickly do the
1:28.4	background here. Elon Musk criticized the big, beautiful bill that has passed the House and that Trump now wants the Senate to pass.
1:35.9	Musk called it a disgusting abomination that will explode the deficit. Musk kept it up and then Trump finally unloaded.
1:43.3	Let's start with this.
1:44.5	Listen.
1:45.4	People leave my administration, and they love us.
1:51.8	And then at some point, they miss it so badly.
1:54.9	And some of them embrace it, and some of them actually become hostile.
1:59.5	I don't know what it is.
2:00.5	It's sort of Trump derangement syndrome, I guess they call it.
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