Non-burgundy, defined as a blurred contempt by what could dissuade anyone, has always been one of Donald Trump’s superpowers. This is part of the alchemy by which he can ignore his own defeats, opposite, false steps and absurd overpromises, and claim that they have never occurred or were in fact proof of great success. On Wednesday, the president was confronted with a disturbing developments dam that could have stifled another leader – a disturbing job report, the losses of the federal court linked to four of its signature policies, an increasingly vituperative public break with Elon Musk. The Budget Office of the Non -Supportance Congress has determined that Trump’s brand legislative effort, the “Big, Beautiful Bill”, would add around 2.4 billions of dollars to the US budget deficit in the next decade – a conclusion that has only eaten the recent Musk attacks. Musk, who broke out for the first time with Trump last week during the measure, has, in recent days, urged the members of the Congress to “kill the bill”, calling it a “disgusting abomination”. So, what does Trump do in response? Climb, of course. On Wednesday evening, he announced three of his most controversial decrees-with regard to new Harvard international students in the country, by ordering an investigation into a crazy conspiracy theory that Joe Biden aid usurped the president’s powers to issue decrees by the day, and in the quarter of Trick, like the time in the Middle East, like the United States, was UNITED STATES. nightmare.
In the midst of so many big titles, you may have missed that Trump also spent an hour and fifteen minutes on the phone on Wednesday with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in a call that went badly that Russia and Ukraine would not be so bad. ATT, a surprise attack earlier this week on its fleet of strategic bombers. Trump’s post on the call appeared on his Truth social network at 1:56 PM On June 4, and perhaps history will record that, as the moment when one of Trump’s most flagrant promises is ultimately expressed – his promise, often repeated, to instantly end the war in Ukraine.
Technically, Trump had long managed to deliver it, since he had insisted throughout the 2024 campaign that it took less than twenty-four hours to stop the fighting. (CNN compiled a non-exhaustive guide of fifty-three times, he made this commitment, in particular by saying that he would have war “settled” before returning to the White House.) Until recently, Trump still claimed to pursue this objective, and even if he admitted the obvious to obviousness Time That his self-imposed deadline was an “exaggeration” just “to make a point”, he nevertheless insisted that peace would soon be to come. On April 25, he even announced that the two parties at war were “very close to an agreement” and that “success seems to be in the future!” A week ago, Trump said he only needed two more weeks to see what was possible with Putin. But Wednesday came the return of classic Trump, never recognized as such, but a return just like: he had a “good conversation” with Putin, according to his article, but not one that went anywhere with regard to Ukraine. In February, Trump demanded an immediate ceasefire in the conflict; Thursday, during a meeting with Friedrich Merz, the new Chancellor of Germany, Trump offered only a non-engagement “maybe it will end”.
At this stage, it is unlikely that Trump spends much more energy to fail to restore peace, and it seems clear that it already proceeds to his real objective of normalizing relations with Russia, even without interrupting the fighting. He tilted his hand in his social post on Wednesday Truth, who quickly pivoted bad news from Ukraine to request Putin’s help to ensure Trump’s faulty effort to conclude a nuclear agreement with Iran. Talk about an ascent: instead of treating Putin as a global bet that has launched an unreal invasion of its neighbor and regularly brandished the nuclear arsenal of Russia as a form of geopolitical blackmail, Trump now honors Russian president as an international statesman whose diplomatic prowess can be enlisted in the cause of nuclear non-pratication.
Another of Trump’s most flamboyant promises is at the heart of his quarrel that quickly degenerates with musk. In the past, Trump has undertaken to begin to “reimburse” the American national debt, and during the Musk campaign, which he led to supervise the effort, promised to win up to two dollars in annual budget reductions, which, if they were really decreed and extrapolated over ten years, would theory of twenty-moisty in economics. Not only did Musk did nothing like this during his mandate and a division as head of a new department of effectiveness of the government, but the new Megabill of Trump which is making its way through the congress controlled by the Republican could add billions of dollars to the deficit. The president often rely on his supporters to swallow his gigantic flip flops, but even according to Trump standards, the latter-a swing of more than twenty-two billions of dollars in the wrong direction of what he promised what he really does.
Maybe Trump thought that Musk was just another pumping, one of these zealous converts that will happily let their leader get away with any ideological contortion, as cynical. (See: Vance, JD) Musk certainly behaved like a Mostruck cultist. “I love @realdonaldtrump as much as a hetero man can love another man,” he tweeted in February, at the height of their Bromance.
But Thursday, the public breakdown between the president and his greatest financial benefactor, which started with Musk’s painful words on Trump’s derivation policies, had taken the personal turn that we all knew. It started during Trump’s photo session with Merz, when Trump said he was “very disappointed” by Musk, who responded in real time on X by calling Trump to his “ingratitude”. Responding to a video clip in which Trump said he would have won last year’s elections without Musk’s money infusion, Musk wrote: “Without me, Trump would have lost the election.” Soon Musk recirculated a meme on X from Trump as a shameless liar. This shows that Trump said an interviewer: “I have a plan to reduce expenses”, then brandish a piece of paper on which he wrote the plan, which turns out to be “increasing expenses”.
It did not take long before the two were in a total public war with each other, and it was not only a budget planning. In a spit that showed how much the richest man in the world and his most powerful politician resemble angry college students, Trump went to his social platform to announce that, in fact, Musk had “worn” and Trump had “asked to leave”. Rather than a fight on the principle of expenses, said Trump, Musk “went crazy” when Trump insisted to get rid of the subsidies of the electric government-developer that helps the Tesla automobile company from Musk. (“An obvious lie”, soon replied Musk. “So sad.”)
Trump posted this at 2:37 PM And he followed it with an even more explosive threat: “The simplest means to save money in our budget, billions and billions of dollars, is to terminate the subsidies and government contracts from Elon.” The post pointed out – if it was necessary to emphasize – that it is a battle between two hypocrites: the billionaire who claims to hate government spending, unless it is in his name, compared to the president who is willing to abandon people and principles as quickly as he adopts them.
At 3:10 am PM, Musk was ready for the “very large bomb” of the day, as he said, an assertion on another Trump’s broken promises: the promise that Trump had made to reveal declassified files in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the late sexual offender, who probably includes details on the rich and powerful friends of Epstein. Trump “is in Epstein files,” Musk wrote. “This is the real reason why they were not made public.”
And with that, the Internet has exploded. The disorderly public divorce which seemed inevitable last week held its promise of tabloids. Meanwhile on Wednesday could have been a year ago. Vladimir who? ♦
