'A sliding doors moment': Donald Trump appears backed into a corner on tariffs
NPR Financial Correspondent Maria Aspan, Host of "Politics Nation" Rev. Al Sharpton, and President of Media Matters for America Angelo Carusone join Nicolle Wallace to discuss the latest flip flop from Donald Trump on tariff's as he catches heat from Bill Gates over how his policies are impacting people.
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National Press Club Statement on Proposed Cuts to Public Media Funding
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Steve Bannon prods Trump to cut off Elon Musk: 'He crossed the Rubicon'
WASHINGTON — It took a little longer than he may have liked, but Steve Bannon eventually triumphed over Elon Musk. In a mid-January interview, the former chief strategist to Donald Trump pledged to get Musk, who he called an "evil guy," booted from the then-incoming president's inner circle within days. Six months later, Musk is out. And a feud between Trump and the world's richest man is under way. Bannon has stoked the tension, which began when Musk, a former special government employee who led Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, called on senators to reject Trump's tax cut bill. The two have traded barbs ever since, with Musk suggesting that Trump be impeached and Trump lamenting to reporters on June 5 that he did not know if he and his former pal would be able to repair their relationship. Bannon tightens the screws on Musk In print, radio and podcast interviews, Bannon has piled on Musk. He called on Trump to end the SpaceX and Tesla founder's government contracts. He's also prodded Trump to investigate alleged drug use by the South African-born businessman, as well as his immigration status. "He crossed the Rubicon. It's one thing to make comments about spending on the bill. There's another thing about what he did," Bannon said on NPR's "Morning Edition" program. "You can't come out and say kill the president's most important legislative occurrence of this first term." Musk's claim that Trump is mentioned in undisclosed classified files related to the financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Musk's affirmative response to a social media post pushing for Trump to be replaced by Vice President JD Vance were too far, Bannon said on NPR, a public broadcasting organization the White House is trying to defund. "It has crossed the line," Bannon said of Musk. "There's no going back." Bannon said in a June 6 podcast he does not consider Musk's ouster a personal victory. "I don't ever look at things like that at all. Right now, it's a national security issue," Bannon said on the UnHerd with Freddie Sayers podcast. He went on to accuse Musk of abusing his position inside the government to try gain access to government secrets to boost his business. DOGE did not deliver on the $1 trillion in savings Musk promised, he said of the government spending-slashing effort. "Where's the money? What was DOGE really doing?" Bannon asked. "We want to make sure DOGE and Elon Musk didn't take any of the data sets for his personal use for his artificial intelligence, which is driving all of his businesses." A clash that was months in the making Bannon's own distaste for Musk dates back to a dispute over temporary visas for highly skilled immigrant laborers. Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who Trump initially tapped to co-lead DOGE, pushed for an expansion of the program as way to attract global talent, irritating immigration hawks in the conservative movement. "We're not going to be some anarcho-libertarian (state) run by Big Tech oligarchs — that's not going to happen," Bannon said on his War Room podcast in December. Bannon told Politico in a June 5 interview that, after the split with Trump, the MAGA movement is now done with Musk. 'I think MAGA is now seeing exactly what he was," Bannon said. 'I'm just saying, 'Hey, told you — knew this was gonna happen, folks. Not a hard one.''
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Fact Check: Musk did not suspend or delete Trump's X account
Claim: Tech billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk deleted U.S. President Donald Trump's X account amid their public spat on social media in June 2025. Rating: In early June 2025, online users claimed tech billionaire and CEO of X Elon Musk, who had recently left his role as White House adviser, suspended U.S. President Donald Trump's X account. Numerous posts on X and TikTok claimed Trump's personal X account, @realDonaldTrump, was no longer accessible on the platform. The rumor went viral as Musk and Trump waged a war of words on their respective social media platforms, X and Truth Social. Users spread the claim using purported screenshots of @realDonaldTrump's X profile with the label "Account suspended": (X user @FreestyleW3) The screenshot was either fake or altered and the claim was incorrect: As of this writing, Trump's X account was still active (archived), had not been suspended by Musk, and there was no credible evidence to the contrary. We found archived copies of Trump's X profile from late evening on June 5 (the day the account was allegedly suspended) showing it was active at that time. Trump's most recent post was dated June 2. He continued to publish the majority of his posts on Truth Social. Had Musk really suspended Trump from X, it would have been widely covered in the news media. As of June 5, the two men continued to target each other on their respective platforms (Musk on X, Trump on Truth Social). This was a far cry from their previous social media relationship. In January 2021, before Musk purchased X (then called Twitter), Trump was suspended for violating the platform's policies by inciting a riot in the U.S. Capitol. Musk reinstated Trump's account soon after he bought Twitter in late 2022. It's highly likely the above screenshots were taken when @realDonaldTrump was suspended in 2021 and the dates were altered. One of the screenshots shows only 88 million followers. As of this writing, Trump has around 105 million followers. The billionaires' relationship deteriorated over disagreements about Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which Musk called a "disgusting abomination." On June 5, Musk posted on X that Trump "is in the [Jeffrey] Epstein files," and "That is the real reason they have not been made public." Musk also claimed Trump would have lost the 2024 presidential election without his support and reposted calls for Trump's impeachment. For further reading, we checked the authenticity of Musk's critical and accusatory posts and analyzed the context around the claim Trump was mentioned in convicted sex offender Epstein's "black book." Bond, Shannon. "From Bromance to Breakup: How Elon Musk and Donald Trump Blew Up." NPR, 5 June 2025. NPR, Accessed 6 June 2025. Yilek, Caitlin et al. "How Trump and Musk's Relationship Has Unfolded over the Years — from Feud to Alliance, and Back Again." CBS News, 6 June 2025, Accessed 6 June 2025. Izzo, Jack. "Yes, Musk Shared Post Calling for Trump's Impeachment." Snopes, 5 June 2025, Accessed 6 June 2025. Liles, Jordan. "Yes, Musk Alleged Trump Appears in the Epstein Files." Snopes, 5 June 2025, Accessed 6 June 2025. Loe, Megan. "Trump Mention in Epstein's 'black Book' Resurfaced during Musk Spat. Here's the Context." Snopes, 5 June 2025, Accessed 6 June 2025. "Trump and Musk Trade Insults as Row Explodes in Public View." BBC, 6 June 2025, Accessed 6 June 2025.
