Trump & Musk Trade Public Insults, Ukraine War Escalates, Is Israel Financing ISIS In Gaza? [Preview]
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
For the past year, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have functioned as a team. Musk financed Trump's presidential campaign. They worked together after Trump's election to fire hundreds of thousands of public sector workers, to attack all vestiges or reforms from the Civil Rights movement, to carry out a huge transfer of wealth from the working class and poor people to billionaires. Yesterday, their partnership blew up, at least temporarily, as they launched public attacks against each other.
Brian and Layan discuss the Trump-Musk fallout, the escalation of the Ukraine war, and reports that Israel is financing ISIS in Gaza.
Brian Becker is joined by Layan Sima Fuleihan, a Palestinian organizer with the Shut It Down for Palestine coalition, a popular educator, the Education Director at The People’s Forum, and an editor at 1804 Books.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Socialist Program. |
| 0:04.0 | This is John Prysner, a producer of this show. |
| 0:07.0 | This is a preview of a patrons-only episode. |
| 0:10.0 | Subscribe at patreon.com slash the Socialist Program to hear the full episode, |
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| 0:22.4 | keep this show on the air. |
| 0:26.9 | For the past year, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have functioned as a team. |
| 0:33.7 | Musk financed Trump's presidential campaign. |
| 0:36.9 | They worked together after Trump's election to fire hundreds of thousands of public sector workers, |
| 0:43.0 | to attack all vestiges or reforms that emerged from the civil rights movement, |
| 0:49.2 | and to carry out a huge transfer of wealth from the working class and poor people to the billionaires. |
| 0:56.5 | Yesterday, their partnership blew up, at least temporarily, as they launched public attacks |
| 1:01.6 | against each other. I'm Leanne Seema Fullahan, here with Brian Becker, and this is in the |
| 1:06.8 | news, a segment of the socialist program, a patrons-only show. |
| 1:12.1 | Leanne, when we were starting to plan this show, we had no idea that Donald Trump and |
| 1:17.2 | Elon Musk would have a complete falling out. That happened in the last 24 hours. |
| 1:23.0 | There was obvious tension between the two. Musk was clearly not in favor of some of Trump's tariffs. |
| 1:30.6 | Musk also in his capacity as the leader of Doge, the so-called Department on Government |
| 1:36.2 | Efficiency. He wanted to go even further than Trump in carrying out vast, deep cuts, social |
| 1:43.6 | spending cuts that help in some small way working class |
| 1:47.8 | and poor people or the elderly. Musk wanted to go even further. Musk was aligned with the more |
| 1:53.6 | right-wing sectors of the Republican Party. So you could see tension, but nobody would have thought |
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