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#138 - Big Beautiful Bill Fallout: Musk and Trump's Public Spat · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  Okay, so we knew this was going to happen eventually.
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  Elon Musk and Donald Trump are having sort of a love spat.
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  They are falling out before our eyes, but this might not be the end of the world,
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  and this might have been expected.
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  So Elon Musk, he embraced Donald Trump, went against all odds.
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  It was a huge part of Trump becoming the president.
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  And doing that, he gave up a lot.
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  He gave up a lot of, because he was the darling of the left,
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  and now he has been labeled a Nazi in a lot of ways.
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  His brand of Tesla has taken a huge hit, and just the left, you know,
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  putting him in the crosshairs, it was unstoppable and unthinkable,
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  the limits that they would go to to try to destroy him.
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  So now trying to get a little distance from Donald Trump seems almost reasonable.
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  This is all about the big, beautiful bill that Trump and the Republicans,
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  together with Democrats, are pushing to get signed into law and to get passed through.
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  The Democrats are thrilled that they're having this breakup,
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  but for much different reasons.
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  Elon thinks it's a bloated bill, which it probably is. Trump is going to paint
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  everything in the best picture available.
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  But the Democrats, they don't think there's enough spending.
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  So they're happy that they're having a breakup and they're all for the trashing
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  on the big, beautiful bill, but for much different reasons.
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  Elon wants to take out all the massive spending that is going into it,
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  that he is trying to do so much with Doge and eliminate government waste.
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  But the Democrats are just we want they want to spend the house,
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  you know, spend us to non-existence, I guess. I don't know.
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  It's just, it's wild. The, the limits that both, both parties will go to, you know?
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  And that's why it is all, it's just all, it's just,
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  it's just a game. It's just a it's theater.
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  It's none of it's actually real. They're playing with monopoly money.
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  All right. But let's switch over. Let's let's actually take a look at things
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  that Elon has been putting out there because they've had disagreements.
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  Trump and Elon have had disagreements, but nothing this public.
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  They've kept it behind closed doors.
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  And Elon has just been out in the open, trashing the bill, saying it cannot go through.
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  But I'm with Trump on this. I'm with Trump on this because if they come away
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  with nothing and they go into this gridiron, just lock, everything gets locked
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  up, and they don't get anything passed through,
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  the huge tax cuts don't go through, that's the biggest thing that people will feel hugely.
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  So if those don't go through, I think it's all about compromise,
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  and Trump needs to get something pass through, and he's going to put it in the
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  best... He's a marketer. He's a guy that... It's a businessman.
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  He wants to... He's a cheerleader to whatever it is, whatever cause it is.
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  And Elon, I think he...
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  Tax cuts aren't going to, he's not going to feel it as much as other people,
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  as other people. He's a billionaire.
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  He's not going to experience it as much. He's looking more, a little bit more
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  long term in the direction of the country.
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  Sometimes you have to accept a little bit necessary evil to get what the greater good.
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  And I think Trump is like on that side.
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  So just the things that Elon has been tweeting, as you can see in the picture
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  right there, it's from a Not Jerome Powell parody account.
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  But anything that, if Elon tweets something, hundreds of millions of people see it immediately.
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  And hundreds of people, millions of people like it, you know,
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  or maybe not hundreds of millions of people like it, but hundreds of thousands
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  of people like it immediately.
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  Anything he puts out there. But this does fit into, he needs to,
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  he cannot be lockstep with Trump anymore.
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  He did what he needed to do to get Trump in the White House because it would
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  have served as a benchmark to the collapse of our nation if Trump would not
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  have won the presidency.
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  I don't think there would have been no recovery. And that's why Elon was so
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  adamant about getting him in there.
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  But in this tweet, this most recent one, Jerome Powell, or not Jerome Powell
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  tweeted, It has the train or the school bus going in front of the train tracks.
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  It says money Doge has saved the government.
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  And then the train just bust through the school bus.
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  And it says Trump's beautiful, Trump's big, beautiful bill.
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  So he's almost making himself his all his work.
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  Was it a waste of every pun?
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  Was it a waste of trying to eliminate all the waste?
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  Overall, it's not. This is going to be just a very small window of time.
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  It does give me a little bit concern that they could actually fall out because
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  it does seem like anybody that Trump has alongside of,
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  he ends up usually firing them or they don't.
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  Stay, they're not, they don't stay together. They don't, they're not happy.
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  Like eventually, it seems like that a lot of people, not his family,
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  not as, you know, his close closest people.
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  It seems, or even Marco Rubio, anyone or Ted Cruz, anyone that he's had these,
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  these fights against, they all end up coming to work for him.
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  And then they just kind of got to go along to get along.
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  You know, I eventually, you know, there could be a JD Vance fallout.
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  You know, I would hate to ever see that. I hope that never happens,
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  but you never expected Mike Pence and that whole thing.
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  It seems like it always eventually happens.
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  And I don't, that's why business is so freaking cutthroat.
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  And these are like the epitome of business guys. It is so cutthroat.
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  It is so, you have your idea of what you want to accomplish.
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  And if anyone, if anyone's not on board, I mean, you can cut ties in an instant.
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  And it seems like Elon and Trump are almost, you know, severing some things.
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  But this might be Elon in the back of his mind, because you got to play that 40 chess.
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  He needs to become that left media darling again that he was for most of his
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  life, that he was for most of his life.
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  And because he needs people buying Teslas. He needs people buying things that
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  he had built and made most of his money on because there was a drop in the Tesla
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  and you can understand that. It's definitely come back.
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  But for his image, it might not be the best thing as he goes off into the sunset.
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  The little sunset that he's going off into now, it might be good to kind of
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  a little bit more arms link from Trump.
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  And maybe that is what's going on as well. Because, I mean, just to save money
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  and to be this out in the open when he definitely, Elon is not stupid.
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  He knows the political gridiron that is taking place every day in Washington.
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  He knows that Trump has to get this through.
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  So this might be something in a public image kind of way to separate himself,
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  distance himself from Trump that, oh, we're having a fight.
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  You can see, you know, we're having a fight, you know, it's not a manual Macron
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  fight, you know, but it's a, it's a fight for everyone to see.
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  It's public and it's over, it's over money, you know, it's over,
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  it's over kind of policy.
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  So it's not personal. It's, it's business, not personal.
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  So this, uh, it's, there's greater things going on, but it does still give me
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  concern that like, you know, they could have a falling out, but they are still,
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  they're, they're actually friends.
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  So I don't think, I don't see that happening, but we'll see.
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