Will Trump deport Elon Musk?

Deport Elon Musk? “Without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa,” President Trump lightly threatened on Truth Social close to midnight. But Musk, who is proposing the formation of a new “America party” in reaction to Republicans passing the Big, Beautiful Bill this week, doesn’t seem to really care about electric vehicle subsidies. His X feed is an unending stream of warnings about the runaway national debt and promises to fund the re-election campaign of gadfly Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky.

But Daddy Trump isn’t playing nice. This morning on the White House lawn where he always unleashes his punchiest quotes, Trump said, “We might have to put DoGE on Elon. You know what DoGE is? DoGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon.”

Musk is also sniping at Steve Bannon, arguably his truest enemy in MAGA-land. “Bannon is going back to prison,” Musk tweeted, responding to a comment of Bannon’s that the government should “nationalize” SpaceX. “This time for a long time.”

Musk often seems to turn his ire on the former White House senior advisor when he’s feeling most hurt by his fall-out with Trump. This is what therapists call “transference,” Cockburn’s nieces tell him.

Bannon says, let’s go, big man. “LOVE IT,” he told Cockburn this morning. “The South African’s colors shining through – DEPORT.”

On our radar

EAU DE TRUMP “Trump Fragrances are here,” the President announced Monday. He’s released two scents with the names “Victory 47” and “Fight Fight Fight,” each costing $249 a bottle.

SELF-DEPORTATION Senator Thom Tillis and Representative Don Bacon will not be seeking reelection in 2026. Both Tillis and Bacon oppose the Big, Beautiful Bill, with Bacon telling the New York Times, “I don’t want to be the guy who follows the flute player off the cliff.

SECURE THE BAG Twenty-five packages adorned with the face of Yosemite Sam floated ashore in Florida over the weekend, containing $500,000 worth of cocaine. This follows $1.5 million worth washing up in Alabama on Thursday.

Weapons of Massie destruction

The war on Representative Thomas Massie rages on. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has been “obsessed with Massie since at least 2012,” a Kentucky GOP political consultant told Cockburn, and they are pulling out all the stops to primary him. AIPAC has apparently been on a hunt for someone to replace the Kentucky Congressman in the 2026 campaign. Two of the potential candidates AIPAC previously approached to challenge Massie for his seat told the rep about it, saying words to the effect of “I declined, but you should know.”

The consultant believes AIPAC “will convince someone to go headfirst into a buzz-saw, but the smart picks are already self-selecting out of the mix.” The Bluegrass State is supposedly more populist than it is dyed-in-the-wool conservative. “We are proud contrarians and very ideologically diverse,” he said.

Perhaps Kentucky’s 4th district sees the electrical engineer who built and powered his own house as one of their own. Massie seems unfazed, posting a photo of an old, yellowed phonebook on X along with the text, “AIPAC looking for someone to primary me in KY-4 right now.”

Goodness me GOP…

A rather disturbing new poll from JLPartners reveals a little bit too much information about the proclivities of Trump voters. Namely: the more sex a respondent claims to have had in the last five years, the likelier they are to have voted for Trump in 2024. And you thought Republicans were prudes…

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