'Disgusting abomination': Musk goes nuclear on Trump's 'big beautiful bill'

[highplainsdem]

Source: Politico

Elon Musk came out swinging against President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” on Tuesday, slamming the reconciliation package as a “disgusting abomination” in a massive break from the president just days after stepping away from his role in the administration.

“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X. “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”

Musk, who Trump had tapped to lead the federal expense-slashing Department of Government Efficiency, went on to criticize the bill for setting up Congress to “increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!)” and saddle Americans with “crushingly unsustainable debt.”

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt brushed off Musk’s criticism, which he posted as she was at the briefing room podium. “The president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill,” she said. “It doesn’t change the president’s opinion.”

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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/03/elon-musk-trump-bill-00382653

[twodogsbarking]

1. Tsk.

[SheltieLover]

2. Please proceed...

[twodogsbarking]

13. Trump has power over me. I can't help but be sarcastic and the best part is he keeps the shit coming.

[SheltieLover]

17. Sarcasm is good.

Hold the vision from Orrex's post. So many fabulous opportunities for karma to dish it up to him and we only need one. Just one...

[Lovie777]

3. Drama....

shithole knows Americans overall don’t like musk. What better way to get the public on the side of the big bullshit bill.

[progressoid]

9. He's only a couple percent lower than the TACO in chief.

https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_MV984ah.pdf

[riversedge]

4. Well Musky--you are one who helped install this crap--it is YOUR fault!!

[chowder66]

5. It's doesn't matter. He said Trump brought "Majesty" to the Oval Office.

[kskiska]

10. Didn't we once fight a war to rid ourselves of "majesty"?

[chowder66]

11. We sure did but those w/ $$$ want us all to be serfs.

[cstanleytech]

6. To late Muskrat, you already are tied to everything he does no matter what you try to claim now.

[Bayard]

7. All for show

[murielm99]

15. You have that right!

[ancianita]

21. Pretty much. Even if he's serious about this one thing that rethugs have ALWAYS done -- increase the deficit

with massive tax cuts for the rich -- this alone is not a deal breaker between him and the felon.

"Elon's really not leaving,” Trump said in a joint press conference with Musk in the Oval Office. “He's gonna be back and forth. It's his baby, he's going to be doing a lot of things."
“I expect to continue to provide advice," Musk, wearing a black hat with DOGE written on it and a black shirt reading “DOGEFATHER,” said during Friday's press conference, while noting that his legal limit for service as a special government employee was coming to an end. "I expect to remain a friend and an advisor.”...

Members of Musk’s early DOGE team, including Luke Farritor, Gavin Kliger, Edward Coristine, and Sam Corcos, have met with a number of departments and agencies—including the Treasury, the Office of Management and Budget, and the FBI—in recent days, seemingly continuing business as usual, WIRED has learned.

The team also appears to be actively recruiting ... This doesn’t sound like a group that is going away, it sounds like one that’s digging in like a parasite,” an IT specialist at the Department of Agriculture (USDA) tells WIRED...“Elon may be stepping away, but DOGE’s mission remains stronger than ever. Exposing reckless, wasteful government spending isn’t about one individual—it’s about a lasting overhaul of Crazy Town,” congressman Aaron Bean, chair of the House DOGE caucus, tells WIRED....

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-elon-musk-really-not-leaving/

[Buddha2B]

23. Exactly this is the way

Republican are always doing this. People need to call this the Republican Administration, not Trump. Trump will be gone and grifter Repukes will be pretending they had nothing to do with it.

[benpollard]

8. What about the tax cuts?

Musk has a problem with spending in the bill, but what about the tax cuts for billionaires that are the biggest cause of our enormous deficits?

And how about some cuts to the military budget which is rife with waste and abuse. Their budget is actually increased in the bill!

[Blue Owl]

12. White House Press Secretary Ketamine Leavitt

[Libloom]

14. How much more of a downward spiral

Will he go once he burns those bridges too?

[KentuckyWoman]

18. It's just a performance

This is pure theatre to make it look like the President can handle opposition. We already know he can't.

[Uncle Joe]

22. It looks like something they would do on WWE

I believe that's one of *rump's major influencers.

[Zambero]

19. $291 million coughed up and what's the verdict?

Drum roll:

It's nothing more than a DISGUSTING ABOMINATION. So says the deep-pocketed "financial wizard and 21st century visionary" who made this whole thing possible. Apparently, disgruntled mega-billionaires are quite capable of experiencing a finding out phase!

[homegirl]

31. Tesla sales crashed and..

Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill does not provide for a tax credit on purchases of electric cars. So, even after $280 million to get Trump elected, as usual Trump didn't deliver the perk Musk really needs, NOW!

As is well known-Donny's loyalty is only to himself, never anyone else!

[COL Mustard]

20. F-Elon knows something about disgusting abominations.

He is an abominable person.

[thought crime]

24. They're setting up a "compromise" with hard-liners.

[Escape]

25. People hate Musk.

Musk say bad things about Trump bill.

People support Trump bill.

This is the way MAGA Math works.

It will be successful.

[tanyev]

27. Only one way to solve this, Elon: Cagefight.

[k_buddy762]

28. Mr. Musk and I agree on this

This bill is just more pork and bloat. Not shocked, though.

[homegirl]

29. WOW!

Now it begins:

The Clash of the Titans.

Elon Musk is younger, healthier, certainly richer than tired, aging DJT!

The Republicans are going to learn an Economics lesson! Income shortfall, cutting expenses is the smallest part of the solution.

INCREASING INCOME IS THE SOLUTION; The USA is not in a position to cut taxes, quite the opposite, first step is elimination of the last tax cut and imposition of a minimum 15% tax on all corporate profits!

The MAGA and GOP pine for the "good old days", somehow they forget that those days included a 90% tax rate on business! Eisenhower (R) was POTUS then!

When the average American has money problems they get a second job, or a better job to increase income!

Like all Americans I am anxiously awaiting a response from DJT!

[JohnnyRingo]

30. Disgusting abomination: Musk

They could have ended the headline right there to make a true statement

[AloeVera]

32. An abomination that is also disgusting is really bad.

Watch out for the flying feces-excrement at Nazi- Central-Mar-aLago.

[electric_blue68]

33. Oh... Talkin' about yourself, Eloon?