Elon Musk Calls Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful’
Spending Bill a ‘Disgusting Abomination’
National Review,
by
Brittany Bernstein
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
6/3/2025 2:35:42 PM
Elon Musk, the former head of the Department of Government Efficiency, on Tuesday dismissed President Trump’s “big, beautiful” spending bill as a “disgusting abomination.”
“This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,” he said in a post on X.
“Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it,” he added.
Musk’s comments on Tuesday represent an even harsher reaction to the bill than his previous criticisms. He had previously said he was “disappointed”
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He feels like I do when I spend and hour picking up all the toys and cleaning the den ... and then in five minutes it is right back where it started.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Turninggrey 6/3/2025 2:53:18 PM (No. 1959298)
Wow. National Review at it again. I won’t click on it, but Musk is rightfully scolding Congress, not Trump.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
govlawyer 6/3/2025 3:27:28 PM (No. 1959318)
Unfortunately, you get what you can with Congress.....they are too addicted to pork for our own good.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/3/2025 3:28:24 PM (No. 1959319)
More pain required before our 'government' and the general population do something about out of control spending.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
philsner 6/3/2025 3:29:02 PM (No. 1959320)
And of course, The National Review is on it!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
chumley 6/3/2025 3:33:44 PM (No. 1959321)
You cant hit a guy for telling the truth. He's right. Its just more of the same old carp. Might as well have been passed by democrats.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
VAPMAN 6/3/2025 3:43:19 PM (No. 1959325)
Yes #6’ except if democrats were passing this bill it would have 3X the wasteful spending and huge tax increases on the middle class. I’ll take the tax’s cuts’ but the republicans need to grow a spine and start cutting now.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
justjoe1237 6/3/2025 3:49:07 PM (No. 1959326)
But Trump continues to praise it. Bongino, Homan, Patel, and Bondi have done absolutely nothing. But Trump continues to praise them. And he continues to allow Iran to stall while they work feverishly on nuclear weapons.
All this will undermine his support at a time when the opposition is not only evil, but demonic.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jasonB 6/3/2025 4:34:16 PM (No. 1959342)
Why are any of you guys going after the NR? They are just reporting what he said. Musk stuck his neck out for Trump (when the Dems have any sort of power again you KNOW they're going after him, unlike the feckless GOP) just to get used like one his wives.
So far the guy that came in on the sole promise of cleaning out the "Swamp" hasn't made one single arrest (J6 guy got a promotion). New MRNA "vaccine" just got Gov approval. Wants the largest increase in spying on everyone EVER. Wants ever more debt.
Biden debt bad. Trump debt (same levels) good! When do you guys stop thinking "your" team actually cares about you? They'll drive the country into bankruptcy and you'll all be pointing at the "other" team and "Trusting the Plan" as you're eating dirt.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/3/2025 4:45:19 PM (No. 1959349)
The only entity polling worse than Democrats is Congress.
"ye shall know them by their fruits"
Matthew 7:16
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/3/2025 5:12:29 PM (No. 1959357)
Musk is speaking about the DC swamp that got us $37 Trillion in debt. Musk has and is doing great things for America. The media wants to drive a wedge between Musk, Trump, and MAGA. It is not going to ever happen, as Trump and MAGA are grateful for all he has done.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 6/3/2025 5:55:08 PM (No. 1959379)
Musk is a brilliant guy, but he doesn't see that politics is the art of the possible. I didn't grasp this when I first got personally involved in state politics in the 1990s. I met a guy, who has been a close friend and whose children are my godchildren. He was the county Republican chairman at the time. We discussed politics a lot, and I was appalled that he regularly had lunch with several Dems in the Kansas House. I asked how he could stand it. He pointed out that you can't convince someone if you don't know them and interact with them. He tried to get them to move a bit in their views.
He taught me "politics is the art of the possible". Screaming at the sky because what you want isn't currently possible isn't useful. If you can get a bill that is 60 to 80% or what you want, you have moved the ball down the field in your direction a bit. Next year, perhaps more will be possible.
Musk is a newbie to politics, as I was, and needs a good mentor to sit him down and explain how it REALLY works.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Geoman 6/3/2025 6:13:37 PM (No. 1959386)
When talking critically about Republican spending, be sure to include Trump in that. The House lacked the votes to pass the bbb until Trump twisted a few conservative House member arms and he is without question, the most influential leader of the GOP.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
tootall 6/3/2025 6:34:09 PM (No. 1959398)
I was and am under no illusion that it was going to be difficult to get MOST Politicians to spend less $$$. It's going to take a bit.
What I find interesting is that the Donald and Elon are playing good cop bad cop with DJT being the good cop.
I believe the President wants less spending but has to take what he can get right now. Elon's not there any more and he can scream bloody murder and the results will show up. Here's one example ... how's John Cornyn feeling today? He's going to be replaced next term. And many other RINOs will be too.
Do you think, that if Elon keeps making noise that he will have outed many more by the time he comes on for his next 90 day temporary hire job in January. Does Trump understand how to set up a long term strategy and does he win most battles.
We'll have to wait and see.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mifla 6/4/2025 5:08:06 AM (No. 1959535)
Elon was asked to do a difficult job that would get him a lot of flack from both parties. After 130 days, he had a long list of accomplishments and set up a structure to keep the investigations into waste and fraud ongoing. When he asked Congress when they were going to pass laws to implement all of his work, he got the deer in the headlight look. I don't blame him for his remarks about Congress.
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