Even Trump started to doubt Musk and DOGE's promise to cut $1 trillion, report claims: 'Was it bulls***?'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Saturday 31 May 2025 17:10 EDT


President Trump recently questioned whether Elon Musk’s pledge to cut $1 trillion in government spending was genuine, reportedly asking his advisers, “Was it all bulls***?”

The Wall Street Journal reports that even Trump, who remains friendly with Musk after he left his administration on Friday, started to doubt his promises while leading the Department of Government Efficiency.

Despite Trump and Musk publicly praising each other in public during the billionaire’s rocky four-month government stint, the president and his top aides sometimes had spats with Musk over things like the Middle East and cabinet meetings, sources told the outlet.

At a spring cabinet meeting, Musk allegedly surprised officials by venting about the toll government work was taking on his businesses, especially Tesla. Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly responded by pledging to prosecute every criminal they could. Still, Trump requested that his aides coordinate a farewell celebration for Musk in the Oval Office on Friday, they said.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/politics/trump-musk-doge-cuts-promise-b2761354.html

[exboyfil]

1. Now might want to look at his performance

On the government contracts his companies have.

[truthisfreedom]

2. Yep, it was all bullshit.

We all knew it was bullshit. But we also know that everything repugnants do in office is bullshit. Their party is a joke. Musk is probably just gonna croak in a few months.

[Bluetus]

11. Not only was it bullshit, but a key DOGE guy was fired for reporting exactly that

Sahil Lavingia was fired right after an interview was published where he said, plainly,

“But honestly, it’s kind of fine — because the government works. It’s not as inefficient as I was expecting, to be honest. I was hoping for more easy wins.”

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/28/founder-sahil-lavingia-says-he-was-booted-from-doge-after-just-55-days/

[brush]

3. Musk first promised to cut 2 trillion dollars. So trump is even doubting him now?

This is just more evidence that TSF wouldn't know a good cabinet appointee if it bit him in his over-sized rear.

[riversedge]

5. Musk was not a cabinet member--and his contract ran out May 31. That said, I think Musk was

tired of taking orders from lower salaried people than he is. And of course Trump will remain on good terms with Musk as long as some money goes into his wallet. iMHO

[brush]

10. Cabinet member or special government employee (sat in in cabinet meetings) is not the point. The point is...

trump wouldn't know a competent appointee if he or she sat right next to him with a resume full of their accomplishments.

Musk promised 2 trillion in savings (that's 2 thousand billion), and it's doubtful after all accounting and necessary rehirings and suits through the courts are done from the chaos he created, if the total savings will be over 50 billion, a relative drop in the bucket next to the 2 thousand billion promised.

[C Moon]

4. Nah. trump is looking for a scape goat, an out. They always do. I remember Bush Jr. doing this.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Yep. Musk did exactly what Trump told him to do. Destroy the US federal workforce.

Gather data on all Americans.

Make Trump richer and more powerful.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. The greatest businessman in the history of mankind couldn't tell?

Shocked. Just shocked. Maybe even schlocked.

Real businessmen can tell the difference. They know a fraud when they see it.

[rampartd]

8. if it is true that "you can't bullshit a bullshitter.....

trump must be difficult to fool.

[travelingthrulife]

9. Are you sure about that? These 'smart' business people seem to fall for Republican

charlatans all the time.

[usonian]

12. Elon's an auto salesman. So he takes a 100% commission.

FAFO

[republianmushroom]

13. Of course it was bull shit, trump was just to dumb to know

he was being played. And boy, was he.

[twodogsbarking]

14. A billion dollars is a lot. A trillion is one thousand billion.

That seems, well, unrealistic. WTF.

[Karasu]

15. Imagine being fucking stupid enough to think otherwise for so much as a second.

[Marcuse]

16. !

[DENVERPOPS]

17. Oh he had the Trillion Dollar figure correct:

That is the figure it is going to COST the U.S. Government to straighten out all the chaos Elon created, maybe even TWO Trillion, and a full decade or two to do it all...........