Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) lobbed an insult that might virtually actually get beneath Donald Trump’s pores and skin on Thursday after Elon Musk helped tank a Republican authorities spending invoice the day earlier than.
Wednesday’s growth led Democrats to recommend the Tesla CEO is Trump’s “shadow president,” and prompted “President Musk” to development on the billionaire’s X social media platform.
Goldman urged Trump would possibly fall even decrease within the pecking order throughout an look on MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes.” Hayes had known as Trump and Musk “the 2 co-presidents-elect.”
“We have to face the fact: Proper now, we now have President Elon Musk,” Goldman stated. “And Donald Trump, perhaps he’s vice chairman. I assume vice presidents don’t do a lot, in order that is sensible. He may be the chief of workers.”
Goldman argued that Musk “has no concept how authorities operates or how authorities runs” and has “his personal very self-interested view of all the pieces.”
He additionally identified that Musk spent more than 1 / 4 of a billion {dollars} to assist elect Trump, and that Trump nonetheless stands to make monetary beneficial properties from the connection if a rumored merger between their respective social media platforms had been to really happen.
“Elon Musk has Donald Trump in a vice, and it is rather clear that Elon Musk is now calling the pictures,” Goldman stated.
On social media Wednesday, Musk publicly pressed in opposition to a bipartisan deal negotiated by Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). Trump finally spoke out in opposition to the measure himself, scrambling the plans with days earlier than the deadline to stop a authorities shutdown.
Trump’s spokesperson pushed again on assertions that Musk is pulling the strings in a press release to The Related Press.
“As quickly as President Trump launched his official stance on the CR, Republicans on Capitol Hill echoed his standpoint,” Karoline Leavitt stated, referring to the failed stopgap measure. “President Trump is the chief of the Republican Social gathering. Full cease.”
