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Peak Prosperity

The Trump-Musk War and the Coming Economic Crisis

Peak Prosperity

Chris Martenson

Government, Investing, Business

4.7591 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Musk-Trump feud highlights that DC will never change on its own, even with people showing up with the best of intentions. Instead, it will continue pushing the country deeper into debt until something breaks.

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0:00.0

The Trump-Musk War. What does it mean? Could mean good things. It could mean very bad things. Let's take a look.

0:10.5

The following is the audio version of a video released at peak prosperity.com.

0:16.0

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0:22.3

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0:33.4

Hello, everyone. I am Dr. Chris Martinson of Peak Prosperity. We're going to talk about this.

0:38.0

The Musk-Trump War, the Trump War, whichever way you look at it, and the coming economic crisis, I think this means bad things are on the way.

0:45.3

Here's why. Let's start. It began on June 3rd with Elon Musk saying that it was disgusting. He said, I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore. This massive,

0:57.3

outrageous, pork-filled congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those of you

1:05.0

who voted for it. You know you did wrong. You know it. 19 million views that came out at

1:09.7

131 in the afternoon on June 3rd.

1:13.1

So that was the opening salvo.

1:14.2

Now Musk had just slept on the floor, given up a lot of his life, had his Tesla brand,

1:19.4

which he poured so much into, just immolated on the world stage.

1:23.4

Obviously, for whatever mysterious reason, the media decided that Elon was a fascist for wanting to look at where we were spending money as a government and maybe trimming some of that and finding the fraud wasted abuse.

1:35.5

Intolerable, obviously, to whole cohorts and sections of the world, even, with Elon being called a Nazi fascist in Italy, Germany, Canada, you name it, right?

1:47.7

So he put up with a lot.

1:50.0

And then it comes through all of that.

1:51.8

And then what happens?

1:53.4

Nothing.

1:54.0

We get this big, fat, obese spending bill, which is going to require so-called

2:00.5

Republicans to raise the debt ceiling by

2:03.5

$5 trillion just to make it through a couple more years.

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