Tearing the facade! Trump: Musk is "crazy," attacking the spending bill for electric vehicle interests; Musk: Never had a bill "so beautiful."

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has repeatedly publicly criticized the Trump administration's massive spending bill, and now it seems that his "brotherhood" with President Trump can no longer even maintain a facade.

On Thursday, June 5th, Eastern Time, this pair of "good brothers" publicly erupted in a war of words over the Republican tax cuts and spending bill. First, Trump expressed to reporters at the White House that he was "very disappointed" in Musk, as Musk, who understands the contents of the bill better than anyone else, suddenly turned against it. Musk quickly posted a "counterattack," claiming that Trump was lying and that he had never seen the bill before, stating that there was only one way to cut spending.

According to CCTV News, Trump stated that he would rather Musk criticize him than his tax reform bill. Trump claimed that Musk was very unhappy about the Trump administration's repeal of the electric vehicle "mandate." He understood the internal workings of the bill and had no objections until he realized that the electric vehicle "mandate" would be repealed.

Trump said:

"I am very disappointed in Elon. I have helped him a lot. He understands the internal workings of this bill better than anyone else in the room. He had no objections to it. Suddenly, he has an opinion, and it was only when he found out that we were going to repeal the electric vehicle mandate that he started to have this idea."

Afterward, Trump posted on social media that it was he who suggested Musk leave the "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE), and that Musk went "crazy" because the so-called mandate to purchase electric vehicles was repealed. The post read:

"Elon has become 'unbearable,' I asked him to leave, I canceled his electric vehicle mandate, which forced everyone to buy electric vehicles that no one wanted (he knew I would do this months ago!), and he went crazy!"

Trump also hinted at possibly terminating government contracts signed with Musk's companies. In his post, he stated:

"The easiest way to save billions in our budget is to terminate Musk's government subsidies and contracts. I have always been surprised that Biden hasn't done this!"

Musk was not to be outdone and directly dropped a bombshell on social media, claiming that Trump was involved in the Epstein sex crime case, which is the real reason the U.S. government has not released the Epstein files.

Musk's post on @Trump's social media account stated:

"It's time to drop a bombshell: @realDonaldTrump appears in the Epstein files. This is the real reason these files have not been made public to this day. Have a nice day, DJT!"

Musk then posted that he would mark this post, and the truth would come out in the future.

Musk continued to post that, given Trump's claim to cancel his government contracts, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft would immediately begin to disengage from government missions. He also stated that Trump's tariffs would lead to a recession in the U.S. economy in the second half of this yearAccording to CCTV, Musk later publicly stated on social media that he believes Trump should be impeached, responding "yes" to a post supporting Trump's impeachment.

Trump: Musk is angry because we are targeting electric vehicles; without Musk, I would still win Pennsylvania in the election.

According to Trump's remarks to reporters, Musk's "betrayal" is because he believes the spending bill known as the "Inflation Reduction Act" harms the interests of the electric vehicle industry where Tesla operates.

Trump stated that his stance in supporting the bill is correct, and he would rather Musk condemn him personally than criticize the bill he supports. Musk's reaction to the bill surprised him. He can understand Musk's anger because the Trump administration is looking to repeal the electric vehicle tax credit policy established during former President Biden's term.

"Elon is angry because we took down the electric vehicle mandate, which is a huge amount of money for electric vehicles. They are struggling with electric vehicles now and still want us to pay billions in subsidies. Elon has known this from the beginning."

Trump said that he and Musk had a good relationship in the past. Musk strongly supported him during last year's U.S. election, "but I will win regardless."

According to CCTV, Trump stated that even without Musk, he could win the votes in Pennsylvania. Trump also mentioned that Musk has not personally spoken ill of him yet, but he believes he will soon.

CCTV reported that the Trump administration withdrew the nomination of Isaacman, whom Musk recommended, to serve as the head of NASA.

Media reports on Wednesday revealed that the White House vetoed Isaacman's nomination, escalating tensions between Musk and Trump. After Musk criticized the Inflation Reduction Act, Trump lost patience with him, while Musk was upset about Trump's decision to withdraw Isaacman. Musk is a close ally of Isaacman and previously supported him for the position.

The media cited a senior White House official stating that Trump was unhappy with Musk's criticism and did not understand why Musk decided to ramp up his criticism after closely collaborating with him for four months. Trump's senior advisors were caught off guard by Musk's latest offensive.

Musk: The bill was never shown to me; even if cutting electric vehicle incentives is unfair, it should be "lean and beautiful"; without my support, Trump would not win.

As soon as Trump's statement was released, Musk quickly responded with a series of posts on his social media platform.

In response to Trump's claim that Musk is angry about the bill due to electric vehicle interests, Musk simply replied at the beginning of his post: "Whatever (you do)."

He then stated in the post:

"The bill retains provisions to cut electric vehicle and solar tax incentives, and even if it doesn't touch oil and gas subsidies (which is very unfair!!), it should throw away that pile of disgusting private goods in the bill."

Throughout the history of civilization, there has never been a piece of legislation that is both large and beautiful. This is well known! Either you get a 'large and ugly' bill, or you get a 'slim and beautiful' bill. Slim and beautiful is the way out."

Then Musk responded to Trump's claim that he had previously understood the bill and had no objections, posting:

"Lies, this bill has never been shown to me even once, and it was passed quickly in the middle of the night by (Congress), with almost no members of Congress able to read it!"

Musk retweeted a post from Senator Rand Paul, who had been warned by Trump for opposing the bill.

Paul posted that Musk hit the nail on the head, as his report released last year revealed that in just one year, 2024, American interest payments would reach $892 billion, which amounts to consuming 10% of the federal government's budget. Musk wrote when retweeting this post that the large and ugly bill would make the situation worse.

Musk also retweeted a comment agreeing with Trump's view that he wouldn't win the election without his support.

The comment stated that Musk said, "Without me, Trump would have lost the election, the Democrats would control the Senate, and the Republicans' seats in the Senate would be 51 to 49," which is indeed correct.

Musk retweeted a post summarizing his statements from an interview, reiterating: the large and beautiful bill would expand the U.S. federal government's deficit to $2.5 trillion. The interview content showed that Musk stated the U.S. has a $2 trillion deficit, which is continuously increasing, and that spending on interest payments has already exceeded the Department of Defense's budget. Wallstreetcn mentioned that when Musk publicly broke away this Tuesday, he stated that the bill would cause the already huge budget deficit to surge to $2.5 trillion.

On Wednesday, Musk posted a call for the American public to contact their congressional representatives to "veto" the bill, attaching a still from the movie "Kill Bill" to the post. He posted again on Thursday, reiterating his call: "Kill the bill."