“Morning Joe” panelists on Monday predicted when Donald Trump’s alliance with Elon Musk will fracture. (Watch the video under.)
The president-elect’s weekend speech reassuring that he was in cost, not Musk, confirmed he was feeling insecure, host Jonathan Lemire mentioned. Trump gave a principally lighthearted response to speak of Musk being the “shadow president.” Musk appeared to scuttle a bipartisan spending invoice on his personal by tweeting objections and threats to any GOP lawmaker who accredited it. Trump joked that Musk couldn’t be president anyway as a result of he wasn’t born in the USA.
“The truth that he needed to level to the Structure for instance of ‘Hey, no. Elon Musk really can’t be president. He wasn’t born right here’ exhibits you the way a lot that is getting beneath his pores and skin,” Lemire mentioned.
The topic then turned to what it could take to interrupt up their political bromance.
Panelist Sam Stein, a former HuffPost politics editor, instructed their bond is extra out of comfort as a result of Trump appreciates the wealth Musk dedicated to his marketing campaign and that he has the megaphone of X, which he owns, at his disposal.
However Trump gained’t play second fiddle on the eye entrance, Stein assured.
“The issue is, after all, is that if Elon begins stealing his thunder, the highlight, and it turns into obvious that Elon is definitely extra highly effective than Trump, that won’t go over very nicely for the president-elect, soon-to-be-president,” Stein mentioned. “I feel that’s once you begin seeing friction between the 2.”
Lemire riffed on the type of second that would immediate a breakup: “When the Time Journal cowl drops suggesting that Elon Musk is definitely operating the present, which may be it.”
Stein famous that Musk had talked about on social media not wanting the Time Particular person of the 12 months cowl that went to Trump this month.
“DOGE would have been performed earlier than it started, had that occurred,” Lemire joked, referring to the management put up Trump assigned Musk within the new Division of Authorities Effectivity.
