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#140 - Trump vs Musk: Is This the End or Just a Blow-Up? · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  Was yesterday a dream or was it real? Today we're going to take a look at this
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  saga continues with Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
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  They are set to speak today and I'm just thinking that they are going to make up.
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  There's no way that this can go on, but what do you all think?
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  We're going to take a look at a, actually a column from Reuters and it's kind of interesting.
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  So Trump and Musk to speak on Friday after alliance descends into public feud.
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  So if you were, if you have not been like in the news cycle,
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  the last 24 hours, Donald Trump and Elon Musk have completely derailed their,
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  their relationship is a dumpster fire right now.
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  But my contention is that this is going to, this is not, it's not going to be settled today.
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  And it's not going to be settled probably for maybe a couple of weeks or so,
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  or maybe months over overall, you know, but bros can always make up.
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  Guys can always, when they actually start talking together, the things that
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  like maybe girls, it might be tougher for them to come together and make up
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  and not really hold grudges. Guys don't really care.
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  Overall, guys aren't going to hold something against each other for the most part, for the most part.
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  And I think that these guys, you know, they are, you know, top of their game,
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  businessmen, you know, politician-ish, you know, but either way,
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  they are not some people that are going to just be able to, they're not going
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  to hold grudges for no reason.
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  If anything, this has made Elon Musk, I think, it's made him look not so good
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  for people on the more conservative side, on the more right,
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  but on the left, people are loving him. Maybe this is his overall game plan.
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  Elon Musk, he's not stupid. He's not stupid. So I guess we could start there.
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  So Reuters has on their Donald Trump aides schedule a call between the US president
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  and Elon Musk for Friday after huge public spat that saw threats fly over government
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  contracts and included the world's richest man suggesting Trump should be impeached.
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  Elon is saying he should be impeached.
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  Elon is saying so many things. He's throwing everything out there and it's to
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  distance himself from Trump. It's.
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  In the public eye. It's in the public eye because I think he needs to repair
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  his brand, repair his image on the left overall, because he has been painted as the focal point.
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  Everything, the heat that Donald Trump was getting, it all shifted to Elon Musk.
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  So I can completely understand why he would, why he's doing this in a sense.
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  It says a White House official said that the two men would speak on Friday.
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  The official did not give a time for the call, which could ease the feuding
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  after an extraordinary day of hostilities largely conducted over social media.
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  That marked a stark end to a close alliance.
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  Representatives for Musk, Tesla said, did not immediately respond to a request
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  for comment about the planned call.
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  Tesla is definitely hurting. If there were things that were built into this
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  bloated bill and Elon knew that they weren't going to go through,
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  because that's what Trump is saying, that you knew that these mandates were
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  not going to go where the people were going to be probably the subsidies ish
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  or maybe government spending towards people buying Teslas or just having a little
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  safe haven for his to make a little money on the side.
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  And when we say a little money, when we're talking government, it ain't little.
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  It is like probably a masses of amount that does not it does not seem it's astronomical
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  compared to regular people spending.
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  All right. So shares in the electric vehicle maker closed down over 14% on Thursday,
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  losing about $150 billion in market value.
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  So when we say Elon Musk, he's a billionaire, he's like a $200 billionaire or
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  whatever it is, you know, it's based on primarily on his stock value,
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  how big his companies are.
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  It's not like he's got it in the bank or something. It's what is estimated for
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  the most part, you know, he's He's got money all over the place,
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  and he's the richest man in the world.
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  He battles with Jeff Bezos back and forth. He has kept the title for the longest time now, Elon.
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  So he's not hurting for cash. He's not hurting for cash. So this is not completely money. This is image.
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  This is how he's going to go forward and playing a few steps ahead.
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  Because if it was just money, he's not strapped for cash. He's not strapped for cash.
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  Okay. Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company for Trump's true
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  social platform, ended down 8.04%.
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  On Thursday and was up and 0.2% in pre-market trade.
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  What's actually very nice about this overall is Elon Musk cannot just push the
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  button and deplatform Trump.
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  As you remember at the end of his presidency last time, when he got booted off
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  of Twitter, booted off of X, he had no megaphone.
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  He had no way to post things.
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  Now, all of the media understands that truth is social isn't a legitimate thing.
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  So anything he puts out there, everybody sees, and then everybody is covered.
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  So his microphone is, he doesn't have that power over Trump.
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  It's just going to be throwing things against each other on the wall,
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  you know, just making, when you, when you are typing things,
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  when you're putting things in email or, or on, on social media,
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  that's why it becomes a sewer.
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  And you see the worst perception of somebody, as opposed to,
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  if you can get more personal talking to somebody.
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  And then secondly, when you were in person with somebody, you know,
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  I know they've had a lot of time together.
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  You know, Elon stayed with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
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  So they, they've been together. They, they're not the exact same age.
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  So there is, they're not like, it's not probably the chemistry is not always
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  there and they're very different people,
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  but they respect each other in a lot of ways in certain things
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  but Elon he's played
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  so nice for so long I think he just held it
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  out and it just erupted it all just came out and now it's like can we dial it
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  back in can we reel it back in it's like once you say something you can't ever
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  take it back but the media is always going to play this game that they think
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  it's the end of the world oh my gosh did you remember what you said you said
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  this you know you typed this out to somebody,
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  but then it's like, okay, we're, we're past that.
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  You can be girls and talk about all this and just make it, make it a big deal.
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  It's really not, you know, this is a big deal.
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  I'm not going to play this light, but when they actually get together and talk,
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  they, there's no way that this can continue and separate more and more.
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  They're eventually going to come together.
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  It's not going to be over in a night or a day or a phone call, but it's,
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  I don't see in a year them completely continuing to duke it out and Elon trying
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  to thwart everything that Trump is doing and Trump trying to just make Elon's
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  life miserable as much as he can.
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  So I don't think this is going to escalate to the most extreme.
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  It's going to cool down. These are dudes.
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  So it's like, they're going to make up. They will eventually make up. So,
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  Musk had bankrolled a large number of Trump's presidential campaign and was
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  then brought as one of the president's most visible advisors,
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  heading up a sweep and controversial effort to downsize the federal workforce in slash spending.
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  The verbal punches erupted on Thursday after Trump criticized Musk in the Oval
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  Office, and the pair then traded barbs on their social media platforms.
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  Trump's true social and Musk's falling out had begun brewing days ago when Musk,
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  who left his role as head of the Department of Government Efficiency,
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  that's a loaded term, why don't we just say Doge,
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  a week ago, denounced Trump's sweeping tax cuts and spending bills.
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  So this is in the facade of all spending money and bloated bills and all that
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  stuff that is just the mess of Washington.
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  It is deeper than that. It is not that. No matter how much they want to paint
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  that as this. It is not that.
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  There are deeper underlying tones that are driving this. And it's coming from Elon.
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  It's coming from him. And Trump is going to, he's going to fight back.
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  He'll always, he'll always punch.
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  If someone hits him, he's always going to, he, he, he will do the most crazy
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  outlandish thing possible.
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  He will always do that. Trump will always do that.
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  So that's why it could escalate in a lot of ways.
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  And it probably will or never, never will be maybe the same,
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  but was it ever the same? Was it really ever the same?
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  Okay. Trump broke his silence on Thursday, telling reporters he was very disappointed in Musk.
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  He says this, look, Elon and I had a great relationship. I don't know if we
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  will anymore, Trump said.
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  As Trump spoke, Musk responded on X.
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  Without me, this is Elon, without me, Trump would have lost the election, wrote Musk.
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  He spent nearly 300 million backing
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  trump and other republicans and republicans in last year's election.
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  In another post, Musk asserted that Trump's signature import tariffs would push the U.S.
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  Into a recession later this year. The easiest way to save money in our budget,
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  billions and billions of dollars, is to terminate Elon's governmental subsidies
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  and contracts, Trump posted.
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  So if you haven't seen these, you can go back and forth to Trump's true social
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  account and then Elon's account on X, and you can see it all for you there.
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  But either way, I think this is going to clear up.
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  The dust will settle. These guys are, these boys will make up,
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  they will talk it out, they're not stupid.
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  But I mean, maybe it wasn't meant to be the same.
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  It wouldn't be exciting if it was just that.
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  I think this life always tells you there's going to be bumps and twists and
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  everything you expect is never going to happen.
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  It's not going to happen. It always doesn't happen and what you expect is not supposed to happen.
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  So they'll make up it it'll start
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  today i this elon is going
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  to i think i believe he will cool down and he's but
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  it's all it's the underlying thing that is is ripping this
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  thing is he needs to get himself in good hands back with everyone like he was
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  before there was a time when everybody loved elon musk and he got which is seemingly
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  tds trump derangement syndrome but i think he's using that to his overall advantage and purpose.
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  All right. So if you've enjoyed this video and you want to continue this conversation,
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  hit this link right over here and I will see you on the other side.