The Friday Brief, June 6, 2025

Inside:
Trump an Musk Nuke MAGA.
My Advice To Elon: Get Revenge.
TACO is Forever.
Big Beautiful Abomination.
Gattaca Is Here.
Who Down With PDB?
Democrats And Churchill.
Asking AI Questions.
What I’m Reading.
Scenes From The Home Fron

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The Big Picture

Trump and Musk Nuke MAGA

Donald Trump barreled onto Truth Social like an orange-hued wrecking ball, promising to “save billions and billions” by yanking every federal nipple from which Elon Musk’s empire suckles: SpaceX and Starlink launch contracts…the whole exquisite buffet.

In one post, he painted the Tesla tycoon as a freeloading techno-huckster, then crowed (falsely, but that goes without saying) that cutting him off would balance the ledger of the BBB. It was vintage Trump: the lies, the swagger, the menace, and the rewrite of history.

Musk answered in gonzo fashion, carpet-bombing X with a ket-fueled rage memes and a casual “Yes” to a follower who suggested impeaching the very man he once called a “legend.”

He claimed Trump would still be haunting Mar-a-Lago as a has-been reality host “without me,” then threw in a lurid Epstein insinuation for extra napalm. Just to twist the knife, Musk vowed to mothball the Dragon fleet - NASA’s only ride to the ISS - essentially daring Trump to find a MAGA-approved rocket on Ebay. Watching MAGA pick sides was like an acid trip from hell, the pervasive “what-the-fuck?” of each passing social media volley was mindblowing.