# If/when Trump and Musk fall out, what will it be over? The results? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump, elon-musk\ **Created:** [February 15, 2025, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346 "2025-02-15T09:08:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346/381 "2025-06-07T16:23:35Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > " A disgusting abomination"? That juvenile, redundant comment might have actually been lifted from my eighth grade journal. Sounds like an expression H. P. Lovecraft would have used. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346/382 "2025-06-07T16:26:00Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Sounds like an expression H. P. Lovecraft would have used. Needs to have “squamous” added in there somewhere. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346/383 "2025-06-07T17:31:33Z")
I like your assessment, @Dr_Paprika. > [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > This publicity is mainstream media catnip. Ultimately it benefits neither Trump, Musk or the Republicans… BUT “there’s no such thing as bad publicity.” ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346/384 "2025-06-07T17:58:36Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > > > Sounds like an expression H. P. Lovecraft would have used. > > Needs to have “squamous” added in there somewhere. 😉 Or sacrilegious or blasphemous… ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346/385 "2025-06-07T18:24:24Z")
This ought to be illegal: Full Title: **Trump says Elon Musk will face ‘very serious consequences’ if he funds Democratic candidates** > **[Trump says Elon Musk will face 'very serious consequences' if he funds...](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-elon-musk-consequences-funds-democratic-candidates-rcna211605)** > > In an interview with NBC News, the president also said he assumes his relationship with the tech billionaire is over following their recent falling out. > President Donald Trump on Saturday said there would be “serious consequences” if tech mogul Elon Musk funds Democratic candidates to run against Republicans who vote in favor of the GOP’s sweeping budget bill. > > “If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC News in a phone interview, but declined to share what those consequences would be. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346/386 "2025-06-07T19:10:03Z")
I was coming in to post that. Clearly it is illegal to threaten someone for their political preferences. OTOH if Trump cancels Musk’s government contracts over this-well, can two wrongs make a right just this once? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346/387 "2025-06-07T19:17:05Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > This ought to be illegal: > > Full Title: **Trump says Elon Musk will face ‘very serious consequences’ if he funds Democratic candidates** 1. Musk can back any candidate he wants to. First Amendment. 2. If Trump retaliates, that’s election interference; a felony. 18 U.S.C. § 241 and 52 U.S.C. § 20511. 3. Musk is free to disrespect the Office of the President. First Amendment. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346/388 "2025-06-07T20:06:14Z")
Ooh, a felony. THAT will scare Trump into behaving! /sarcasm ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346/389 "2025-06-07T20:23:02Z")
… and Elon has now deleted his anti-Trump tweets from a couple of days ago. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346/390 "2025-06-07T20:29:01Z")
Guess it didn’t happen then. /s You’d think Musk would know better that deleting a post doesn’t make it go away. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346/391 "2025-06-07T21:14:15Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Full Title: **Trump says Elon Musk will face ‘very serious consequences’ if he funds Democratic candidates** I guess Elon had better avoid standing in the middle of Fifth Avenue. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346/392 "2025-06-07T21:54:45Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > You’d think Musk would know better that deleting a post doesn’t make it go away But it is the univerally accepted signal for “this is NOT to be spoken of ANY MORE, by the code of X!” /s > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > > > **Trump says Elon Musk will face ‘very serious consequences’ if he funds Democratic candidates** > > I guess Elon had better avoid standing in the middle of Fifth Avenue. “OK, Donald. Watch me fund _Republican_ primary challengers.” (all of them techbros of exactly the minimum age to run, we’d imagine) ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346/393 "2025-06-07T22:06:14Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > You’d think Musk would know better that deleting a post doesn’t make it go away. Musk probably does know that, but does Trump? FWIW, I predict that they will be back together within a week or so. I’m not saying it was contrived. Trump is too dumb for that, but that they will decide they need each other too much. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346/394 "2025-06-08T03:26:44Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > > > This ought to be illegal: > > > > Full Title: **Trump says Elon Musk will face ‘very serious consequences’ if he funds Democratic candidates** > > 1. Musk can back any candidate he wants to. First Amendment. > 2. If Trump retaliates, that’s election interference; a felony. 18 U.S.C. § 241 and 52 U.S.C. § 20511. > 3. Musk is free to disrespect the Office of the President. First Amendment. 1. And would be prosecuted by whom? Certainly not the Bondi DOJ. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346/395 "2025-06-08T05:25:49Z")
If there’s “Musk stink” on any democrat candidates, that likely causes them to lose. ---
**Author:** ![Nyvaak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Nyvaak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nyvaak)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346/396 "2025-06-08T05:28:49Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Or sacrilegious or blasphemous… Eldritch (which really isn’t a bad an adjective for either of those two). ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346/397 "2025-06-08T09:55:49Z")
Rugose? ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346/398 "2025-06-08T12:58:22Z")
I think when the truth comes out it will show that Elon Musk is bi-polar and had a psychotic manic breakdown. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346/399 "2025-06-08T14:48:51Z")
On Friday, CNN [reported](https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/musk-alleged-drug-use-trump), “President Donald Trump has asked aides and advisers if they believe Elon Musk’s behavior over the past 48 hours could be related to his alleged drug use, privately seeking to understand the tech billionaire’s broadsides against him while signaling publicly he doesn’t care, a source familiar with the conversations told CNN.” I’m amused that it’s only now occurring to Trump that Musk’s behavior is influenced by drug use. I thought everyone knew that. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346/400 "2025-06-08T15:18:56Z")
He’s acting exactly like people I know who are either on crystal meth or too much speed of some kind. A manic break wouldn’t surprise me either but that’s often caused by speed [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-when-trump-and-musk-fall-out-what-will-it-be-over-the-results/1014346.md?page=21)