Elon is not just hurting himself – he’s hurting MAGA

Let’s face it, no one expected Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” to be perfect. But for Elon Musk to adopt the intransigent position that the work of government should stop in its tracks in pursuit of perfection is a manifest nonsense. Especially when considering OMB chief Russ Vought’s explanation of how the bill helps reduce the deficit. 

Musk has a habit of failing to see the wood for the trees. He’s been a long-standing backer of China, which my website has reported on for years. He supported DeSantis, not Trump, in the primary. He recently tried to depose Brexit leader Nigel Farage (it went badly for Musk), and just a few weeks ago lashed out at the architect of the tariffs – Dr. Peter Navarro. 

Now, he’s set his sights on the President, tweeting this afternoon about how Trump is in the Epstein Files, as if this were new information. It’s not. 

Such petulance, however, was visible to some of us for a very long time. A while ago, I told the New York Times: “Musk is an atheistic, amoral, CCP-aligned, unaccountable foreigner that’s going to be the head of the MAGA movement at some point.” I may have been wrong about that last bit. 

Now, Elon has very publicly severed his links with the MAGA movement, going so far as to retweet Malaysian influencer Ian Miles Cheong (who, to my shame, once worked for me), saying Trump should be impeached and replaced with J.D. Vance. 

Let’s be honest: this is no great loss. Trump should immediately cancel all SpaceX, Tesla and X contracts with the US government. 

After all, Elon once claimed he would save US taxpayers $2 trillion. That figure was then revised down to $1 trillion and then to $150 billion. At last check, just 27 percent of these recommendations can be verified. That is worse than failure.

And he’s not just hurting himself with his very public meltdown. He’s harming the MAGA movement. He’s harming the President of the United States. He’s harming his shareholders and investors. And he’s harming the fight against the far left. For what? His amour propre? 

It’s a pretty predictable and sad ending for Musk’s short foray with the MAGA right. Good riddance, as far as I am concerned.