Elon Musk, who has not been taking so much ketamine that he can’t pee right, had a meltdown about his former bromance partner Donald Trump on his website, X, this week.
Vice President J.D. Vance, caught up in the petty feud, has naturally taken Trump’s side, including when it comes to allegations about Trump’s ties to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
As he railed against Trump, Musk escalated his attacks: “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!” He added: “Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out.” The posts have since been deleted.
Vance, who was speaking with podcaster Theo Von, reacted to the social media broadside in real time. When Von read that post aloud, Vance first responded, “Man.”
“First of all, absolutely not,” Vance continued. “Donald Trump didn’t do anything wrong with Jeffrey Epstein… Whatever the Democrats and the media say about him, that’s totally BS.”
The vice president added that his “loyalties are always gonna be with the president.”
Trump and Musk spent part of the week publicly feuding, just days after the world’s richest man and head of Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, departed the administration.
Musk, who spent about $290 million to support Trump and Republicans in the 2024 election, started the attacks by calling Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” a “disgusting abomination” and “pork-filled.”
“Without me, Trump would have lost the election… such ingratitude” Musk posted.
Trump, famous for his own social media insults, wrote on Truth Social, “I don’t mind Elon turning against me, but he should have done so months ago.”
Musk took it further, bringing up Trump’s well-known ties to Epstein.
Trump had a long friendship with Epstein and has appeared in multiple photos with him. Musk also appears in a notorious photo with Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, at the Vanity Fair Oscars party in 2014. The image is frequently circulated on X. Musk has claimed that Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for her role helping Epstein, “photobombed” him.
Trump’s Justice Department made Epstein, who died in prison after he was charged with sex trafficking minors, something of a pet issue when Attorney General Pam Bondi promised to release documents in February.
She caused MAGA conspiracy theorists — who hope to uncover a Moloch-worshiping cabal among elites — to melt down when nothing that she released was new. She released Epstein’s flight logs and his book of contacts, which had both already been made public.
Trump told New York Magazine in 2002 that he liked spending time with Epstein. “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” he said. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
Following Musk’s claims, Reps. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) and Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) wrote a letter to Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel asking them to “immediately clarify” whether the claims were true, Axios reported. The White House called the lawmakers “lunatics.”
Joe Rogan also asked Patel about Musk’s Epstein claim. Patel said he was “not participating” in the Trump-Musk discourse.
Speaking on Von’s podcast, Vance said he thinks Musk is “an incredible entrepreneur,” adding that Musk and DOGE’s “effort to root out waste, fraud and abuse in our country is really good.” He expressed hope that Musk can mend fences, noting that “Maybe that’s not possible now, because he’s gone so nuclear.”
He also said Musk was making a mistake to turn against Trump.
“I just think it’s a huge mistake for the world’s wealthiest man, I think one of the most transformational entrepreneurs ever, to be at war with the world’s most powerful man, who I think is doing more to save our country than anybody in my lifetime,” Vance said.
“Mom and dad were fighting so he got sent to a friend’s house,” reads the top comment on YouTube.
