The mainstream media loves to report on alleged “feuds” between Republican public figures. While sometimes they find nuggets of truth, oftentimes it’s half-baked or not true at all, and ends up being nothing more than an obvious attempt at sowing division and drama among party movers and shakers.
President Donald Trump has good momentum right now on the question of the DOGE advisory group, their responsibilities, and what role Elon Musk plays in all of it.
So naturally, the MSM has been steady cranking out reports on alleged “tensions” between certain GOP lawmakers, some of Trump’s cabinet secretaries, and Musk, with the most recent allegation being that there was a “clash” between Musk and Sec. of State Marco Rubio that supposedly required Trump’s intervention.
Here’s how the New York Times reported it:
Marco Rubio was incensed. Here he was in the Cabinet Room of the White House, the secretary of state, seated beside the president and listening to a litany of attacks from the richest man in the world.
Seated diagonally opposite, across the elliptical mahogany table, Elon Musk was letting Mr. Rubio have it, accusing him of failing to slash his staff.
You have fired “nobody,” Mr. Musk told Mr. Rubio, then scornfully added that perhaps the only person he had fired was a staff member from Mr. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
Mr. Rubio had been privately furious with Mr. Musk for weeks, ever since his team effectively shuttered an entire agency that was supposedly under Mr. Rubio’s control: the United States Agency for International Development. But, in the extraordinary cabinet meeting on Thursday in front of President Trump and around 20 others — details of which have not been reported before — Mr. Rubio got his grievances off his chest.