Musk takes credit for Trump's victory, invokes Epstein's name in barrage of posts – The Commercial Appeal
From riding in a Tesla together to exchanging words for the world to see, the wealthiest man in the world took to social media on Thursday and shared his thoughts on the President.
Less than five months into his second term President Trump has lost one of the largest supporters of his campaign, with the departure of Elon Musk.
The President said on June 5 that he was “very disappointed” with Musk and signaled his close relationship with the former top White House adviser was over as Trump publicly addressed Musk’s efforts to kill his so-called “big, beautiful bill.”
“Elon and I had a great relationship,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I don’t know if we will anymore.”
Soon after, Musk was on social media sharing his thoughts on his relationship with the President, saying the election would have been lost without his help.
In a series of Thursday afternoon posts on X, Musk claims Trump wouldn’t have his current position without the help of the billionaire.
“Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate,” Musk wrote on X.
Musk then spent most of the afternoon posting his opposition to Trump’s spending bill, resurfacing old tweets of the president, making claims against the president and interacting with supporters.
Tweets of Musk’s include:
On June 3, Musk took to his platform X to express his opinions on President Trump’s tax and domestic policy bill after Trump held a friendly send-off for the world’s richest man in the Oval Office on May 30.
“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk said in a post on his social media platform X. “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”
According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the bill is estimated to add $3.8 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.
“It will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden America citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt,” Musk said in a follow-up post on X. “Congress is making America bankrupt.”
In late May, Musk similarly shared his thoughts on President Trump’s spending bill in an exclusive interview with CBS Sunday Morning.
“I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,” Musk said in the interview.
A month after announcing he would step back in his role at DOGE, Elon Musk announced he would leave the position entirely.
“As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President @realDonaldTrump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending,” Musk said. “The @DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.”
Musk was designated a “special government employee,” which allows him to work for the federal government for a limited period, with or without pay.
According to the United States Department of the Interior, a special government employee is “an officer or employee in the Executive Branch of the Federal Government who is appointed to perform important, but limited, services to the Government, with or without compensation, for a period not to exceed 130 days during any period of 365 consecutive days.”
Musk’s 130 days allotted to work under the title of special government employee were expected to finish near the end of May. The earliest reported work from DOGE is dated Jan. 21, which would put the end of his 130-day period on May 31, the date he officially departed.
