Who is following who: Trump Leading or Following Musk or Vice Versa Hard to Tell

“See, government must turn hard right like this” 

(Um, I see. I see - okee dokee)

“Hey, Elon: Go sic Mike Johnson bigly”

From ALTERNET how Trump used (or abused) Musk to blast Speaker Johnson about the chaos over the bill that prevented a shutdown with this headline:

“Blindsided and furious Trump turned Elon Musk loose on House leadership”

According to a deep dive into how House Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson (R-LA) managed to get most of his caucus and Trump to agree on a budget package that kept the government working until March, the Washington Post is reporting that Johnson “Blindsided the president-elect by also negotiating with Democrats.”

That, in turn, led Trump to prompt billionaire adviser Elon Musk to launch a war on the House leadership in a flurry of attacks on X that derailed the proposed deal at the time.

According to the report, while attending the Army-Navy game the previous weekend, an insider claims Trump believed he made it clear what his expectations were, which forced Johnson to make concessions to Democrats — which in turn angered his caucus.

According to the Post: “Lawmakers were irate when Johnson laid out details about his bicameral and bipartisan proposal in a Tuesday morning meeting. When Johnson described it as a collaborative process, Ways and Means Chairman Jason T. Smith (R-MO) exclaimed: not true – according to people in the room.”

The Post is also reporting: “Several people close to Johnson say the speaker talked frequently with the president-elect and kept him abreast of ongoing negotiations. But another Trump adviser described him as blindsided by the bill’s contents and furious. The first adviser said the president-elect was with Musk at the time, and Trump told NBC he encouraged Musk to post messages condemning the bill. I told him that if he agrees with me, that he could put out a statement.”

The report notes that is when Musk flooded his X account with over a hundred posts that had Republicans scrambling to put together the final budget that only passed with the help of Democrats, but still left far-right members of his caucus fuming and refusing to support it.

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My 2 Cents: Damn, who is working for whom and who is serving the public Trump or Musk?

The above article shows a contest of sorts between the President-elect and well, the Acting President-elect which is another first for Trump since he always loves being first at any and everything.

The worst is yet to come.

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