P***ING CONTEST

Trump Is Pretty Defensive About ‘President Elon Musk’ Jabs

Trump is claiming that he, and not his billionaire ally, was responsible for killing a bipartisan government spending bill.

Donald Trump is firing back after some Democratic lawmakers alleged that “President Elon Musk” was the one responsible for killing a bipartisan spending bill. Musk had aggressively campaigned against the stop-gap compromise in a slew of Wednesday X posts beginning as early as 4 a.m., but Trump, who made his opposition known around 12 hours later, is claiming victory after the bill failed to pass. “As soon as President Trump released his official stance on the CR [continuing resolution], Republicans on Capitol Hill echoed his point of view. President Trump is the leader of the Republican Party. Full stop,” his spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to The Hill. After support for the bill fell apart, Democratic lawmakers took it as a chance to question Trump’s hold over his party. Some argued that the world’s richest man, whom Trump has tapped to head his thus-unofficial Department of Government Efficiency, was the one who actually turned the tides against the bill. Now, as the government now faces the impending threat of a shutdown, Trump has pitched a new spending resolution that he is urging Congress to pass.