Elon Musk Crosses the Rubicon: ‘Without Me, Trump Would Have Lost the Election’ (UPDATES)

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Elon Musk crossed the Rubicon on Thursday afternoon.

The ex-DOGE chief has not been shy about voicing his opposition to President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill,” the would-be signature legislative achievement of the president’s second term.

But until recently, he had not personally attacked Trump himself. That all changed on Thursday, when Musk fired off a few posts that are likely to turn the cold war between himself and the president hot.

Reacting to a clip of Trump asserting in the Oval Office that he “would have won Pennsylvania easily” without Musk and his support in the election, Musk wrote, “Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.”

“Such ingratitude,” he added.

Musk was also set off by Trump arguing that Musk’s displeasure with the “Big, Beautiful Bill” stems from his support for electric vehicle mandates and subsidies, as well as his claim that Musk “knew every aspect of this bill.”

“Whatever. Keep the EV/solar incentive cuts in the bill, even though no oil & gas subsidies are touched (very unfair!!), but ditch the MOUNTAIN of DISGUSTING PORK in the bill,” said Musk in one post. “In the entire history of civilization, there has never been legislation that both big and beautiful. Everyone knows this! Either you get a big and ugly bill or a slim and beautiful bill. Slim and beautiful is the way.”

“False, this bill was never shown to me even once and was passed in the dead of night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it!” shot back Musk in another.

In another personal attack, Musk shared a post including screenshots of Trump railing against the national debt and Republicans for failing to curb it, and added the caption, “Where is this guy today??”

And the tweets just keep on coming:

Even before Trump sounded off on Musk in the Oval, the Tesla CEO had upped the ante by using Trump’s own words against him, writing “Wise words,” above an old Trump post in which he said “I cannot believe the Republicans are extending the debt ceiling—I am a Republican & I am embarrassed!”

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