What was the real reason Musk was removed from the WH?

[Amy10223]

According to The Daily Mail, Trump world figure Steven Bannon stated that Musk physically "shoved" 62-year-old Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during a showdown that was previously reported as a shouting match.
"Scott Bessent called him out and said, 'You promised us a trillion dollars (in cuts), and now you're at like $100 billion, and nobody can find anything, what are you doing?'' Bannon stated.
"And that's when Elon got physical. It's a sore subject with him," he continued. "It wasn't an argument, it was a physical confrontation. Elon basically shoved him."
DOGE has been an unmitigated failure by any metric. It has engendered widespread antipathy towards the White House, weakened the federal government, inflicted mass suffering on the rest of the world by gutting crucial aid programs, all while failing to produce anything beyond the most measly of "savings." Those "savings" will in turn be washed away by Trump's "big, beautiful bill" which skyrockets the debt and deficit.
"Trump 100%' sided with Bessent after the clash," revealed Bannon. "I don't think Bessent has any bad blood, but he's got a job to do and he's going to do it."
"People in the administration and the White House realized [Musk] didn't have any idea what he's doing," he said. "They cauterized the damage."
According to Bannon, the failure of DOGE was compounded by the fact that Trump falsely claimed during his State of the Union that there were millions of fraudulent Social Security recipients over the age of 100. The "mistake" was blamed on false claims from Musk that stemmed from a supposed accounting error.
"Not one penny was ever shown to have been sent to these people," said Bannon. "Is anyone trying to talk to Elon now? No."

so you MAGA know--that "fraud waste" Musk talked about to justify DOGE--was all talk and nothing more. If fraud was found, there would be proof of it. There wasn't.

[Anonymous]

He hasn't gone anywhere.

Smoke and mirrors to keep the damage away from his companies. Pure brand protection. Reality... too late for that.

You don't walk away from that sort of power. Especially when everyones private info has now been stored on his own private servers. He's addicted to power. He's the president unelected. He's there to stay.

[katiesmuff]

Along with the fact that his real businesses were taking a dump in the toilet and he is now with his hands full of shit trying to find away to bring them back again. I wonder if our retarded congress will press forward to get all the SS and IRS personal information he has back and secure again.

[AngryCarl2]

You ever try putting water back in a bottle with your bare hands?

[OneViewpoint]

A.) Musk was stealing the spotlight from the Orange Man-baby.

B.) Musk revealed himself to be an idiot with zero managerial talent or analytic ability.

C.) Musk was trashing the stock prices of his own businesses to satisfy his huge ego.

[Amy10223]

I forgot to choose you as BEST HMO! Sorry, this should have been #1.

[OneViewpoint]

LOL, thanks. No worries. It's all just good fun.

[andreasderjuengere]

The real reason:

Real assholes don't get along with each other.

[DryGermanGuy]

A. k. a. „There’s no honor among thieves.“

[andreasderjuengere]

@DryGermanGuy... ''Pack schlaegt sich. Pack vertraegt sich'' :D

[andreasderjuengere]

Thanks, mate. I looked for a long while already for a suitable translation of this.

[MisterWack]

I heard he isn’t actually leaving, but doesn’t want to get clowned on every second.

Its hurting his Tesla and SpaceX, though he desperately craves more power, money, influence which is showcased with ‘Golden Dome’ which I don't know if you realize will need Starlink to reach its full capacity which happens to put money into Elon’s pocket.

Elon Musk is the Scrooge McDuck of screwing the American people over.
World’s Richest Man only wants to keep his title.

[Amy10223]

Where did you “hear” he isn’t actually leaving?

[MisterWack]

@amy10223 skip to 0:52
At 0:58 he says “Elon’s really not leaving, he’s going to be back and forth…”
https://youtu.be/057qy_fvaoI?feature=shared

[Amy10223]

That video was from around Feb or March. He's gone now.

[MisterWack]

@amy10223 It says it was posted 3 days ago, I even believe Stephan Colbert reacted to it on his Late Show… Can you send me the link of the original from Feb or March saying the exact same quote / same White House video then? I just want verification since it is confusing.

[exitseven]

DOGE has found 175 billion dollars in waste. this is a lot more than the last 4 presidents found all put together. It has only been 4 months and the courts have fought them all the way. I would not say it was a failure. I say it was a good start. I think that after a lot of these democrat judges are out of the way it will hit that trillion mark before the midterms.

[Amy10223]

Really? Wastebin what? Where is the proof? What exactly was “wasted”?

[beefcakebradybatson]

Waste, my a**. DOGE slashed funding from neceassary programs so Trump can lavish it on his already stinkin' rich buddies.

[exitseven]

@beefcakebradybatson USAID is a total waste of money, there are thousands of illegals aliens collecting benefits. The federal Dept of Education is another waste of money. There was dead people collecting Social Security benefits. then we find out private colleges were getting federal grants amounting in the billions. Too many others to list but they are here.
https://doge.gov/payments

[beefcakebradybatson]

As if...

[Amy10223]

@exitseven: Wow, dead people were collecting SS benefits? I guess they don't have it all in Heaven do they? The Dept of Ed is needed to run s schools. Our school scores and education wo;l; now be worse because no one knows what they're doing, no one has money to run schools anymore. Your link is no proof; whatever you have there is questionable. If Musk wrote it--or FOX News got hot from some place--that's not real. There WAS no fraud, no waste. And you didn't answer the question about fraud.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Pennies on the MILLIONS (actually BILLIONS) of dollar$ Trump and Co. have swindled since Jan.21.

[exitseven]

The test scores under the federal DOE have been plummeting. They have been a front for the teachers union and a proponent of DEI policies. We do not need them. States are better equipped to handle their own education system. We need nationwide school choice as well.

[Amy10223]

Exitseven, I have news for you. States have always handled their own education system. They depend on the state for monies for all county school districts. And what's more, there is such a thing as being taught at home. I am not a proponent of that. Children need to be taught in social settings to learn to get along with others to develop more social skills and to learn about leadership and responsibility.

[exitseven]

@amy10223 So if the states have always handled their own education system (I agree with you because I used to work for one) exactly why do we have to spend billions funding a federal DOE?

[Amy10223]

It's better than spending billions on having Trump and his billion friends receive those massive tax cuts that he's planned since being in office, isn't it? Along with all of his golf trips. Are you siding with the 2% of the population who are billionaires? Are you happy that they don't have to pay that much tax on the billions they have?

[exitseven]

@amy10223 i am glad that I am not paying more taxes. During Trump's first term my federal income tax went down over $4000. I expect that i will get an additional tax break with the increase in the SALT deduction and no tax on social, Security

[exitseven]

Those massive tax breaks were mostly for the middle class.

[Amy10223]

Are you kidding me? Those massive cuts are to make sure the 2% of billionaires in the country get a super tax cut for their taxes. It is NOT for the middle class. Why are you lying to yourself? Why are you in such denial?

[exitseven]

@amy10223 Trump's last tax cut netted me a nice $4000 tax cut. If that was allowed to expire everyone would be paying more. Between the tax cut, no tax on SS and the increase in the SALT deduction I should be getting a bigger cut next year.
There is plenty of documentation supporting this.
waysandmeans.house.gov/.../

[Amy10223]

That fact sheet is from 2017. It's got nothing to do with today. Please keep abrupt of current news. Something like this:
www.reuters.com/.../

Ever since Trump came into office, I have been getting NOTHING, Zilch, nada, as I used to for my tax refunds. My bank interest yields are also going down.

[Amy10223]

Keep abreast*

[exitseven]

They are from 2017 because Trump has just started his second term and his new tax cuts have not taken effect yet. In Trump's first term the fake news kept screaming "tax breaks for the rich" and as it turns out it was a tax cut for the middle class,. This looks like more of the same. The elderly on Social Security are not billionaires and neither are tipped workers. People that get overtime pay are hourly workers, hardly billionaires.

[TheSmellOfVictoria]

Steve Bannon said? 🙄 He has as much credibility as Jake "the snake" Tapper. Trump fired Bannon from his first administration and Bannon went on a rampage against Trump and the Republican party. Musk left because he was losing a ton of money.

[Amy10223]

He didn’t leave. He was kicked out.

[Red_Arrow]

You are so right in what you said. Musk screwed things up badly but Trump loved having the richest man in the world supporting him. Even turned the White House lawn into a sales floor for Teslas. But one of Musk's kids leaving boogers on Trump's desk was too much for him. That was the final straw.

Did you see Musk staring all over at the ceiling as Trump was talking?

[DrPepper12]

Ketamine is a HELLUVA drug

[Sevenpointfive]

who do you think gave him that black eye? answer one and you answer both

[Amy10223]

I have no idea who gave him the black eye. I thought that was a birthmark.

[Sevenpointfive]

it's not a coincidence

[NoDecision]

He peed on Trump's pantleg and humped Melania's leg.

[DrPepper12]

What could go wrong? A sociopathic narcissist drug addict scraping all our personal data with Big Ballz?

MAGA fuckwits enthusiasticly cheer on their own destruction...

[Anonymous]

Incompetence is basically Musk's middle name

He tried coding at PayPal, the developers basically gave him a beta to pay with like how you treat a kid with nothing important because his attempts on the real thing had to be reversed

[Bklynbadboy12]

Because Trump has used them for all he wants to use him for and Elon probably realizes I got all of that I need so as a mutual part between both of them

[Dargil]

He wasn't removed. His temporary assignment expired. Nothing to see here.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Bessent and Musk, two a**holes. Boys, boys...

[Twalli]

There is waste. We can cut thst quite easily, but we won't. Cutting that would save more than the expenses if Trumps party and his bill.

[Amy10223]

What waste is there? Nope.

[Twalli]

We don't need to give oil and drug companies subsidies. They don't reduce prices anyway. So there's really no need to give thrm subsidies. Thst would cut billions in government spending immediately.

[shortster]

Steve Bannon? Wasn't he kicked out from the first Trump administration?

[Amy10223]

Yes he was.

[Anonymous]

Because he has three major companies to run.

[Amy_2000]

No idea

[Amy10223]

The reasons are above.

[eagle1951]

he could only serve 130 days a year,

[Anonymous]

You were the biggest reason