{"id":62140,"date":"2025-06-01T05:36:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T05:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62140"},"modified":"2025-06-01T05:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T05:36:17","slug":"donald-trump-and-elon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62140","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump and Elon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-12.png 640w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-12-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Trump and Elon Musk held a joint press conference on May 30, marking Musk\u2019s final day in the administration. Musk, wearing a \u201cDOGE\u201d cap and sporting a bruise near his eye, confirmed he was leaving government entirely, not just stepping back. The announcement followed a <em>New York Times<\/em> report alleging Musk\u2019s drug use and came amid his criticism of Trump\u2019s budget bill. Musk thanked Trump for the opportunity to lead the Department of Government Efficiency, while Trump praised Musk on Truth Social, saying, \u201cElon is terrific!\u201d Musk\u2019s departure ends a turbulent chapter in his brief but controversial government role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en33.usnews.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/elon-musk-bruise-oval-office-053025-2-b34833b3bc7a404b9495f1dfa490ab06.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13203\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, which increases the deficit and undermines the DOGE team\u2019s work,\u201d Musk said. The bill, funding tax cuts and military spending while slashing health and energy programs, could add $3.8 trillion to the deficit, per the CBO. \u201cA bill can be big or beautiful, but not both,\u201d Musk added. Trump defended it, saying cuts were limited to secure GOP support. Meanwhile, Musk faces scrutiny over alleged drug use, including ketamine, ecstasy, and Adderall, detailed in a <em>New York Times<\/em> report. Musk admitted occasional ketamine use for depression but denied frequent abuse<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62131\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump and Elon Musk held a joint press conference on May 30, marking Musk\u2019s final day in the administration. Musk, wearing a \u201cDOGE\u201d cap and sporting&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62142,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62140\/revisions\/62142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}