Musk is on his way out, but he’s not going quietly. It seems there’s been some resentful scuffling over his activities failures.
A physical altercation between Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent precipitated the Tesla founder’s quick ouster from the Trump administration, according to a report.
The incident was previously reported as a “screaming match” between the two men, but the physical aspect has since been confirmed by The White House.
The U.K.’s Daily Mail interviewed former Trump adviser Steve Bannon about the DOGE-related scuffle.
“‘Scott Bessent called [Musk] out and said, ‘You promised us a trillion dollars (in cuts), and now you’re at like $100 billion, and nobody can find anything, what are you doing?” Bannon recounted. “And that’s when Elon got physical. It’s a sore subject with him. It wasn’t an argument, it was a physical confrontation. Elon basically shoved him.”
The altercation was confirmed by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday, the Mail reported.
The Daily Mail is not a reliable source, but we also have physical evidence of the fight.
Cool, hit him some more, and put a little more vinegar in the punch.
You know what? This is not normal.
It may not be normal, but it’s great to see.
Dare we hope that they are this incompetent for three more years?
It’s not the Musk/Zuck cage match we were promised, but I’ll settle for video evidence of this.
Elon Musk getting punched in the face should be normal. Just all the time.
neither is Steve Bannon
In Oval Office farewell, Trump says Elon Musk is ‘not really leaving’
Do you think he’ll come back for another beating?
They are so unprofessional and lawless that I am disappointed it did not escalate to fighting with chairs and broken bottles. And if they are sad that people believe the worst, too bad.
If you behave like stupid thugs, people will expect you to continue being stupid thugs.
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
Maybe we can bring dueling back. Just this once.
They could stage a fight between them on TV. They could get Vince McMahon to do it for them. Linda McMahon, Secty of Education, could referee…she’s got professional experience at that. Great show. The audience would be huge. (Or course, the results are contractually agreed upon.)
And yeah, I don’t trust Bannon anymore than I trust Musk or Trump or Scott Bessent or any of the other perps milking the government right now in the name of MAGA. Con artists all the way down.
#5
So Stupid Idiot’s claiming that Muck’s not really leaving, but others say that he is.
Who’s right? Beats me (No pun intended).
Lets hope he didn’t take the nuclear codes with him.
Brian Pansky @4
You beat me to it. Plus given their mutual animosity Bannon is probably motivated to cast Musk in the worst possible light.
That Karoline Leavitt confirms it though…
I despise them all.
Musk said his son gave him the black eye pictured above:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-black-eye-trump-doge-b2760990.html
So was it actually from his son or from the confrontation with Bessent? It doesn’t seem like much of a black as pictured. If a grown person punched him one would expected more bruising and swelling???
Punching him is fine, but I won’t be satisfied until we see his corpse hanging by the heels outside a gas station.
If Bessent or some other MAGAt with beef punched Musk and that’s all the damage that occurred they should be embarrassed. Makes more sense that Musk’s demon spawn did that. Or maybe I’m disappointed in the lack of a shattered face. I mean take a good look at the cover of Pantera’s Vulgar Display of Power first next time!
People speculate it was accidental self injury after some party drugs. He should have familiarized himself with William Holden if so.
What I’m getting is that one gets one’s comforts where one can.
(I’ve had worse playing with my dog)
@ Hemidactylus
Do any of these fools seem like they would know how to throw a punch?
Musk got beat up by Scott Bessent? I really can’t decide which of those two comes out looking more pathetic…Not that it matters…
Well, that’s reassuring actually. If he legitimately thinks of Doge as if it were one of his children, the most consistent thing in the world he could do is abandon it for others to take care of.
mikey@13> this guy gets it
dangerousbeans@16>my thoughts exactly, these are a bunch of incompetent shit-talkers that hide behind their wealth and status
I’d suggest a full-scale, general fistfight with pigs and chickens thrown into the melee:
this describes their style perfectly. Art anticipating reality, what?
Whether it was his kid (you know, the one he carries on his shoulders all the time to protect him from snipers) or Bessent, I hope it happens more often. Musk may have 12 or more kids, but it is estimated his DOGE cuts killed 300.000 of them since he started in the Trump admin, by disease or starvation. Evil man.
rorschach @ 21
Holy crap. I knew the cuts would kill people, I did not know the scale.
May he perish from a disease that could have been prevented if funding had been available.
@ rorschach : Not doubting it – its horribly plausible even probable – but do you have a source for that 300.000 kids killed by DOGE cuts figure please?
PS, Yet more proof that the 2 (& ONLY two) major American parties are NOT remotely the same or anywhere near as bad as each other. There would NEVER have been a DOGE under Kamala ofc.
BTW. New covid strain has been spreading folks :
https://www.respiratorytherapyzone.com/covid-19-comeback/
So do beware and take care given that yáll.
Oh, PZ, shame on you! You used the ‘N’ word: ‘Normal’. I haven’t used that word for many years. There is no normal!
#9 Owosso
Beats me is the shortstop.
Of course, the miscreant muskrat’s miscreant offspring rubbing boogers in the resolute desk in the oval office is an absolutely accurate and poetic summation of the mump cult’s contribution to society.
Re: Hemidactylus @12:
Clearly, they both teamed up against Elon.
Re: StevoR @23:
98,924 adults, 206,420 children. 103 deaths per hour. Malaria, Tuberculosis, Diarrhea, Malnutrition, Pneumonia, Medicaid disruption, Neglected Tropical diseases, PEPFAR. Each cause has an itemized tally and a methodology write-up.
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I’ve been saying this for a while now but it bears repeating: there is going to be a housing crisis in Hell when these people finally die.
Or maybe the place really is all full up and all the demons are here. At this point I neither know nor care.
Hm. Arguable whether that is a sin of commission or a sin of omission, since withdrawing live-saving aid is not actually killing people. Most of us consider that ‘killed by [so-and-so]’ to be the former.
I mean, if I don’t donate a kidney to save a life I could have saved thereby, am I killing some person?
(So, kinda misleading)
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Anecdata: I had extended conversations with the owner of a mercenary-for-hire group (‘Private Security’) a few months ago who was tasked to run an assessment about the situation in northern Nigeria in terms of safety for mining investment. He has spent years in north-central Africa, he knows whereof he speaks.
His conclusion was that large parts of the Nigerian sahel was almost entirely supported by USAID. It’s a marginally viable environment and USAID was the major source of food for hundreds of thousands of people. Families in that area are very large on average, and young.
That aid is gone now.