Published on: 2025-06-04 22:31:15
The drama between US president Donald Trump and his former buddy-in-chief Elon Musk is far from over. As ABC reported today, now that he's been summarily retired from the White House, the billionaire SpaceX boss has been privately venting his frustrations at Trump. One particularly stinging betrayal, per the network's reporting: Trump's sudden withdrawal of Musk's buddy and financial benefactor, Jared Isaacman, from consideration to be the next NASA administrator. As the day progressed, Musk's
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Inspiration4 mission commander Jared Isaacman, founder and chief executive officer of Shift4 Payments, stands for a portrait in front of the recovered first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket at Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) on February 2, 2021 in Hawthorne, California. Days after his nomination for NASA was pulled by President Donald Trump, Jared Isaacman told investors in his payments company Shift4 that his "brief stint in politics was a thrilling experience." Isaacman said in the l
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In the spring and summer of 2008, when Donald Trump was still a registered Democrat, an anonymous blogger known as Mencius Moldbug posted a serial manifesto under the heading “An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives.” Written with the sneering disaffection of an ex-believer, the hundred-and-twenty-thousand-word letter argued that egalitarianism, far from improving the world, was actually responsible for most of its ills. That his bien-pensant readers thought otherwise, Moldbug contended, was
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As the Trump administration continues its crusade against the institutions of science, the careers of would-be researchers in the US are on the line. President Donald Trump has suggested slashing NASA's science directorate's budget in half, which could deal a fatal blow to dozens of future science missions and greatly undermine the United States' leadership in space, experts warn. Trump's outright anti-science agenda could have devastating knock-on effects for anybody looking to make a career
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Whether it's already happened, or coming in the near future, you can definitely expect higher prices from these companies. James Martin/CNET In a lot of ways and for a lot of products in the US, the biggest impacts of President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff plans are still a ways off in the near future. Still, numerous companies have already hiked prices or said that they will be hiked in the near future. The fact of the matter is that tariffs -- a tax placed on the importing of certain pro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 03:39:36
“If you’re explaining, you’re losing.” This line is usually attributed to Ronald Reagan. Whoever said it definitely had a point, and not just about politics. If you’re trying to explain to people, be they voters or bond investors, that you aren’t really as bad or untrustworthy as you seem, you’re already in deep trouble. So when I saw Scott Bessent, the treasury secretary, declaring Sunday that “The United States of America is never going to default, that is never going to happen,” my reaction
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As Donald Trump and his family stretch into nearly every corner of the cryptocurrency sector, a dispute has broken out over which corporate entities are permitted to wield the Trump brand to promote the crypto products they launch. On Tuesday, the X account for the US president’s Trump memecoin—which is administered by Fight Fight Fight LLC, formed by longtime Trump ally Bill Zanker—announced plans to launch a crypto wallet and trading platform in partnership with NFT marketplace Magic Eden. Th
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From potentially illegal giveaways to shady trade deals, Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s relationship has drawn a lot of scrutiny. Now, Democrats are honing back in on potential backdoor deals for the benefit of Musk’s satellite internet constellation. In a recent letter, Senate Democrats claimed the Trump administration is withholding broadband grants to funnel money to Starlink. The $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment fund is a federal grant program aimed at improving high-spe
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During a press conference in the Oval Office late last month, US President Donald Trump doubled down on his plan to build a massive new missile defense system largely based in space he is calling the “Golden Dome.” In recent weeks, defense companies have begun vying for anticipated government contracts tied to the project, and three firms with deep connections to the White House—SpaceX, Palantir, and Anduril—have been named as purported frontrunners. Trump ordered plans to be drawn up for the G
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President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform moved a step closer to having a bitcoin exchange-traded fund available to everyday investors. NYSE Arca, the all-electronic arm of the New York Stock Exchange that handles most ETF trading, filed on Tuesday to list a bitcoin fund linked to the president's media company, the latest sign of Trump's expanding push into the crypto world. Known as a 19b-4 form, the filing is required before regulators can decide whether to allow the fund to launch and t
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As Tesla slowly rotted from the inside over the past year or so, big name investors and higher-ups publicly signaled their frustration with their absentee CEO, leaving many wondering when — or if — he was coming back. The electric vehicle giant has been slumping hard lately, thanks to worldwide disgust with Elon Musk's extreme behavior, Donald Trump's wide-ranging tariffs, massive Tesla recalls, and the rising star of Chinese EV giant BYD. Though Tesla stock once made up the majority of Musk's
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WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES - MAY 30: United States President Donald Trump departs at the White House to U.S. Steel's Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania in Washington D.C May 30, 2025. President Donald Trump's new dollar-pegged stablecoin is off to a sluggish start, with muted inflows and little organic demand, new data shows. The USD1 token — launched by Trump's decentralized finance firm, World Liberty Financial — has so far failed to break out of a narrow speculative niche, accordin
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Donald Trump Jr. is distancing himself from his father's meme coin — while defending the family's broader foray into crypto as a response to being frozen out of the traditional banking system. "I wasn't involved in the meme coin," Trump Jr. said in an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box." "I'm more focused on the stablecoin, the bitcoin mining." Meme coins are a class of cryptocurrency fueled by social media buzz and celebrity hype rather than real-world utility. They often skyrocket in value befo
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Senate Democrats are pleading with the Trump administration to stop delaying distribution of $42 billion in grants for construction of broadband networks in areas with poor Internet access. The Biden administration spent about three years developing rules and procedures for the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) fund and then evaluating plans submitted by each US state and territory. Republicans repeatedly alleged that Democrats should have distributed the grants more quickly, but t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 16:12:45
Tesla has been put through the wringer during CEO Elon Musk's absence. The EV maker saw earnings plummet in the first quarter of this year, with net income cratering an astonishing 71 percent since the same period last year. The root of all the trouble was Musk himself, as he embraced far-right ideologies and took on a position gutting the federal government — hugely unpopular moves with Tesla's left-leaning customer base that spawned an international protest movement against the company and e
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NASA's next mission will be to find a new agency leader, following a dramatic reversal from President Donald Trump. In a post made on Truth Social, the president withdrew his nomination of Jared Isaacman as the head of NASA. As first reported by Semafor, the pullback comes just a few days before Isaacman was due in front of the US Senate for a confirmation vote. Trump detailed in the post that he will soon announce another nominee who is more aligned with the president's mission and will "put A
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Billionaire Elon Musk reportedly still owes president Donald Trump an eye-watering $100 million out of the $300 million he committed to get the reality TV star elected. That's according to the Wall Street Journal, which reports that now that the bromance between the two has seemingly ground to a halt, Musk isn't keeping the cash flowing. Trump's advisors said that the latest $100 million check hasn't arrived yet, in perhaps the most concrete sign yet of a widening rift between the two larger-th
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In the wake of damning new drug allegations, Elon Musk showed up at his own farewell party from the White House sporting a black eye and an even stranger excuse for it. As the New York Times and other outlets report, the billionaire claimed during his Oval Office goodbye shindig that he'd gotten a visible shiner from his five-year-old son, who has the extraordinary name X Æ A-12 and is generally known as X. "I was just horsing around with little X, and I said, 'Go ahead, punch me in the face,'
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is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Elon Musk appeared alongside President Trump for a press conference in the Oval Office Friday, perhaps for the last time, with a noticeable black eye that he says he got from his young son. ”I said, ‘Go ahead, punch me in the face.’ And he did,” he said. Musk has been feeling the blows, too. Sources in the Trump administr
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watch now LAS VEGAS — The bitcoin treasury play that lifted Strategy's market cap past $80 billion is now being mimicked by meme stock companies, media firms, and multinational conglomerates. But Wall Street isn't buying all the hype. This week, Trump Media announced plans to raise $2.5 billion to buy bitcoin, and GameStop revealed a $500 million allocation. Meanwhile, Tether, SoftBank, and Strike's Jack Mallers unveiled Twenty One, a bitcoin-native public company expected to launch with more t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 08:07:26
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks alongside U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Shares of the Elon Musk-led automaker Tesla have rallied in May despite recent poor car sales numbers for the company in China and Europe, as the billionaire CEO promised to focus more on his businesses than politics. Tesla shares gained more than 22% for the month. The stock is still down 14% for the year. Apple is down more than 19% year-to-date, the wors
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President Donald Trump held a bizarre press conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday, ostensibly to wave goodbye to the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). But both Trump and Musk essentially admitted that the billionaire oligarch wasn’t really going anywhere, at least when it comes to his influence on the federal government. “This is not the end of DOGE. This is only the beginning,” Musk said, explaining that his time as a Special Governme
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Imports of goods into the U.S. dropped a record 19.8% in April, according to estimates released by the U.S. Commerce Department on Friday. That drop is in sharp contrast to a 5.7% uptick of goods imported in March, widely believed to be driven by U.S. retailers and consumers buying in advance of President Donald Trump’s tariff threats, which are expected to cause prices to soar. The new estimates show that America’s trade deficit with the rest of the world narrowed by 46% to $87.6 billion, acco
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Almost two months after Donald Trump first announced his… creative tariffs plan, the stock market has more or less moved on. The biggest tech stocks have bounced back, helped by AI hype, strong earnings, and a growing sense that most of the plan won’t come to pass anyway. Apple, however, remains in the red. Since Trump made the announcement on April 2nd, shares of Amazon (+7%), Google (+8.8%), Meta (+10%), Microsoft (+20.2%), and Nvidia (+26.3%) have all erased their post-announcement losses, a
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey, the original founder of Oculus VR who has since become a military contractor, weren’t on the best of terms for many years. After all, Zuck is the one who fired Luckey after he helped establish Meta’s entire VR business. That’s now water under the bridge. There’s major money to be made in military tech, but Zuckerberg and Luckey—two nerds who made billions off their consumer products—are also bound tight by their newfound ultra-masculine, Trump-supporti
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Elon Musk’s four-month blitz through the US government briefly made him Washington’s most powerful businessman since the Gilded Age. But it has done little for his reputation or that of his companies. Musk this week formally abandoned his role as the head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), which has failed to find even a fraction of the $2 trillion in savings he originally pledged. On Thursday, Donald Trump lamented his departure but said Musk “will always be with us,
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Two years after legal proceedings began, the SEC has formally dropped its lawsuit against Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange. It was one of the US government’s final ongoing actions against crypto companies. Lawyers for the SEC and Binance jointly moved to dismiss the case in a filing on Thursday. It follows a 60-day pause requested by both parties in February. The case has been dismissed with prejudice, meaning the SEC can’t pursue it again. “We’re deeply grateful to [SEC] Chairman P
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President Donald Trump has responded to billionaire and former number-one ally Elon Musk, after he heavily criticized the White House's so-called "big, beautiful bill." Over the weekend, Musk told CBS News that he's "disappointed" by the price tag of the tax and spending bill, arguing that it "increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing." "I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful," he added, "but I don't know if it can be bot
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Five ways the world's richest man changed the White House 2 hours ago Share Save Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, White House Share Save A chainsaw, two hats and Lil X: Musk's eventful time at Doge Elon Musk's time in the Trump administration is coming to an end after a tempestuous 129 days in which the world's richest man took an axe to government spending - stirring ample controversy along the way. Earlier this week, the South African-born billionaire, on his social media platform, X, thanked P
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As part of a sweeping reorganization of the State Department, the Trump administration is creating an Office of Remigration. Remigration is an immigration policy embraced by extremists that calls for the removal of all migrants—including “non-assimilated” citizens—with the goal of creating white ethnostates in Western countries. The details of the plan are contained in a 136-page notification document sent by the State Department to six Congressional commitees—including the House Foreign Affair
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