Democrats can barely comprise their glee over Trump and Musk’s ‘big beautiful breakup’ | EUROtoday

Just in time for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s go to to Washington, Democrats loved a wholesome serving to of schadenfreude as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s feud went nuclear in actual time.

“The big beautiful breakup?” Rep. Sarah McBride requested in response to a query from The Independent Thursday about Trump and Musk’s spat, a reference to the “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” Trump’s centerpiece laws that seeks to increase the 2017 tax cuts, slash social spending and ramp up immigration spending.

The first inklings of a crack within the partnership that began when the Tesla CEO bankrolled Trump’s return to the White House and blossomed as he took on the DOGE function of slashing authorities spending, got here on Tuesday, when Musk known as Trump’s invoice an “outrageous, pork-filled, disgusting abomination.”

“You ever see that meme of the guy’s face, like, when the person, the worst person in the world, you actually agreed with?” Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona mentioned to The Independent, in reference to a preferred Clickhole article headlined “Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point.”

“That’s kind of what I feel right now,” Gallego mentioned.

Sen Raphael Warnock of Georgia couldn’t assist however chortle.

“It is proof positive that even a broken clock is right twice a day,” Warnock mentioned.

Musk’s phrases plunged Senate Republicans into chaos as they search to move the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” Act after the House handed their model final month. But on Thursday, Musk went scorched earth, tweeting that Trump “is in the Epstein files,” and saying that’s the reason that they had not been launched.

“That is the real reason they have not been made public,” the Tesla billionaire tweeted. “Have a nice day, DJT!”

Musk turned up the warmth even larger when he endorsed Trump’s impeachment.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, the highest Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, who led the second Trump impeachment, mentioned he had missed Musk’s tweet calling for Trump to be impeached.

“Well, he must know a lot more information,” about Trump’s ties to Epstein, Raskin advised The Independent.

Democrats have spent the early months of the Trump administration depicting Musk as a shadow president who spent $290 million to elect Trump and whose Department of Government Efficiency slashed important providers.

For some time, it appeared like Trump and Musk could be an ideal match, with Musk dubbing himself “First Buddy,” sporting his “Dark Ultra MAGA” hat and carting his son X across the Oval Office. But some Democrats mentioned that the fallout was inevitable.

“It was always going to happen,” Rep. Maxwell Frost of Florida advised The Independent. “I didn’t expect it to happen at the same time like it is now.”

Musk grew to become a villain in Democratic assaults within the Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, on condition that Musk’s political motion committees poured in thousands and thousands. Shortly thereafter, Musk mentioned he would chorus from giving cash.

But Musk did little to dispel the concept that he performed a job in profitable Trump the presidency on X.

“Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate,” Musk mentioned. “Such ingratitude.”

Rep. Eric Swalwell of California, an outspoken critic of Trump, agreed with Musk.

“If Elon didn’t help Donald Trump, he wouldn’t be he wouldn’t be president, he’d be in prison,” Swalwell, advised The Independent.

Progressives mentioned that the combat between a president who largely ran on the premise that he was an extremely rich businessman versus the world’s richest man confirmed the hazards of wealth focus.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the democratic socialist from New York, mentioned that the combat validated the message she and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont had unfold throughout the nation of their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour.

“I don’t think that the whole state of the country should be with two should be concentrated in two guys with massive egos that are fighting with each other,” the progressive firebrand Ocasio-Cortez advised The Independent.

When requested if she loved the feud, AOC mentioned, “I mean, it was a long time coming.”

Trump has sniped again in type, saying, “Elon was ‘wearing thin,’ I asked him to leave,” additional saying: “I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!”

For different Democrats, the fallout reveals that Musk and Trump deserve one another.

“They both got what they paid for,” Rep. Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico, the highest Democrat on the DOGE subcommittee to House Oversight, advised The Independent.

But Musk’s impression on the Trump administration will last more than the feud. As Stansbury descended the steps, she clutched a folder with the DOGE brand.