Elon Musk Blows Up Internet & Maybe D.C. With Claim That Trump Is In Epstein Files: 'Holy Sh*t'
The war of words and tweets between Donald Trump and his top donor Elon Musk just went nuclear.
As the former DOGE chief and POTUS tossed slings and arrows at each other over the president's 'Big Beautiful Bill's' effect on the federal deficit and whether or not the SpaceX owner put the Republican back in power, Musk dropped 'the really big bomb.' After almost over a year connected to Trump at the hip, spending hundreds of millions on his 2024 campaign, and charging through the federal government's inner sanctums like a rabid bull in a China shop, Musk truly went full Little Boy and Fat Man.
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Less than a week after he was literally tossed out of the White House with praise and a golden key, Musk today claimed POTUS 'is in the Epstein files.' With zero evidence, Musk added: 'That is the real reason they have not been made public.'
As Trump cancels Musk's billions in government contracts, and Musk says 'Yes' to a post calling for the former Apprentice host to resign and VP JD Vance move into the Oval Office, the reaction to the Epstein remark exploded online – even as Fox News and the rest of the mainstream media essentially ignored it initially.
Not that their mutual friend, the Hitler praising man once known as Kanye West stayed mum in remarks no one asked for:
Broooos please noooooo 🫂 We love you both so much
— ye (@kanyewest) June 5, 2025
Having said that, Trump himself this afternoon ignored questions about Musk's allegation, while attending a law enforcement event with Attorney General Pam Bondi and other administration officials
In many ways, UK broadcaster, Trump buddy, and ex-Apprentice Piers Morgan contestant summed it all up with an emoji complimented 'Holy sh*t'
Holy sh*t… 😳😳😳😳😳 https://t.co/iCnNF089ji
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 5, 2025
As Musk's tweet hits over 42 million views in less than an hour, CNN's Kaitlan Collins offered up perhaps the second best response to the implication that the President of the United States, who already is a convicted felon and implicated in a sexual assault, is a pedophile – with even greater brevity.
Wow. https://t.co/SaXbez2k4V
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) June 5, 2025
With the $2 trillion in debt that the Big Beautiful Bill is estimated to be poised to add to the already huge federal deficit, Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries was in the 'Wow' game too.
Wow.This is turning into an all out war in MAGA land. For the record, the GOP Tax Scam has been correctly characterized as a disgusting abomination.
— Hakeem Jeffries (@hakeemjeffries) June 5, 2025
Another Trump and Musk booster did say the other quiet thing aloud
Remember this morning when the big story was Dems piling on Karine Jean-Pierre?
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) June 5, 2025
Collins' CNN colleague Jake Tapper was a bit more polite than Morgan but the sentiment was the same.
https://t.co/VNDMqrBQ6k pic.twitter.com/4pNQy79p0i
— Jake Tapper 🦅 (@jaketapper) June 5, 2025
While it has never been a secret that the now dead and disgraced billionaire Epstein and Trump were party pals back in the 1990s, Trump has always denied he had anything to do with his indicted and arrested friend's disgusting penchant for young girls.
Still, inside the Beltway Thursday a swath of other Trump critics got their popcorn ready for the rumble unfolding in near real time.
George Conway wrote, 'The opening drive in the Super Bowl of Sociopathy has begun!!' Surprisingly longtime Trump foe, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) wrote of Musk's Epstein claim: 'I can't believe he went there.'
Also from the halls of Congress, Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY) linked to Musk's Epstein post and wrote, 'I called for the full release of the Epstein Files a month ago because of my suspicion that @AGPamBondi was concealing the files to protect Donald Trump. Now my suspicion has been confirmed. Release the #EpsteinFiles now!' Echoing words that usually come from Republicans, fellow Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) wrote, 'This tweet from Elon Musk shows, again, that I was right: Trump is all over the Epstein files. I urge the Department of Justice to release all the Epstein files. What is the Trump Administration hiding?'Mehdi Hasan observed: 'The funny thing about this is that Musk, by attacking Trump, is admitting that he funded the guy in the Epstein files. Neither of them come out well from this.'
Check out some of the other responses to Musk's Trump and Epstein revelation:
I didn't expect World War III to start like this. https://t.co/uX9hvwpnK9
— Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) June 5, 2025
Only took about 2 hours to reach DEFCON Epstein https://t.co/elMmlSThIf
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) June 5, 2025
Congressman Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) tapped into the sordid reality TV aspect of all this:
Only @Andy can solve this https://t.co/LDqMc0g0u3 pic.twitter.com/skCKO0qMAb
— Jared Moskowitz (@JaredEMoskowitz) June 5, 2025
On the West Coast, the X-Men '97's ex-boss Beau Mayo took it all MCU.
You know how Magneto and Xavier are that couple who make their break-up everybody's problem… Trump and Musk just said 'hold my beer' https://t.co/xT92AXaA39
— Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) June 5, 2025
Mayo wasn't the only Hollywooder enjoying the spectacle or the popcorn:
Now, more than ever pic.twitter.com/JZIg2nCFaL
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) June 5, 2025
https://t.co/zTAwoIipYT pic.twitter.com/EaTnQO598U
— Steven DeKnight (@stevendeknight) June 5, 2025
https://t.co/M3VQPxVEBV pic.twitter.com/LE9Dw5ov0z
— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) June 5, 2025
Elon to Trump pic.twitter.com/MAnlmsX9sM
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) June 5, 2025
As Telsa stock took a tumble just before the stock market closed Thursday, Musk had the last-ish word, for now:
🤨 https://t.co/DTdfJWydLS
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 5, 2025Best of Deadline
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