LEMON DROP | Don Lemon & Jim Acosta on Trump, Elon, & the Big Beautiful Bill
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome, everybody, to the Jim Acosta Show.
What is the controversy around Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' and how did it start?
It is Wednesday, and the bungling of Trump's big, beautiful blunder is getting bigger. It's a bigly problem for Donald Trump. As you can see with me today, Don Lemon, the great Don Lemon, is here. Don, I don't know if you're seeing this or following this. I know you had your run-in with Elon Musk, but Elon Musk has been going off on this big, beautiful bill, as Trump likes to call it, which is just such a bad name for it right now because it's just getting worse and worse for him. And, you know, today he tweeted, "'Call your senator. Call your congressman.'" Bankrupting America is not okay. Kill the bill. Does Elon Musk have Trump derangement syndrome? You know, when you and I get accused of TDS. TDS all the time.
It's a bad breakup, isn't it? It is. It's a bad breakup. And Mike Johnson saying, hey, I texted, you know, Elon Musk last night. He didn't call me back. It was like, it was kind of like a, hey, you up?
This is like Mean Girls on steroids. This is not good.
As you know, you know better than I, because you are the chief White House correspondent and a very good one at that. When the president has to go down to the Hill and get people on board, you know, it's not good. It's not good.
Why is Elon Musk publicly attacking the bill and is he distancing himself from Trump?
You know, yeah, it's not good. It means that it's failing. This big, beautiful bill is like just I think it's a bus. You can call it a big bombshell bus bill. I don't know what it is, but I think they're going to have trouble getting it through considering everything. That's happening. And, you know, I was laughing on my show yesterday, Jim, because Marjorie Taylor Greene said, I didn't know the AI stuff was in there.
I was going to bring that up. Yes.
And then she says, and then she says, I didn't see what happened on page 200 and something. I was like, you couldn't even get to page 200 and something. It's a damn bill. Like.
Wait, do we think Marjorie Taylor Greene reads bills? Come on. I don't know. Donald Trump neither. Do you think he's read that bill? He doesn't even read his own tweets. They put his tweets out. And speaking of tweets, has he even tweeted about Elon Musk going after him? I mean, I sort of feel like it's been radio silence for him. And, you know, he must be so pissed right now that Elon Musk has done this to him.
He must be so pissed. I don't think he's tweeted about him. He hasn't tweeted about him in a month. He hasn't really spoken about him until Elon Musk, was it on Friday, I believe, went back to the Oval Office and he, you know, left his position at Doge. But Donald Trump has basically just been silent about Elon Musk for maybe a month or two since Elon Musk, you know, went back to, I guess, take over his company or work at his company, which he, you know, which was, which is really in jeopardy, right? Not in jeopardy, but it's having some tough times.
Well, and it's great that you make that point because I've been thinking this. Maybe Elon Musk has a crisis counselor PR firm telling him, you know, we need you to go after Trump. We need you to go after the big, beautiful bill. We need you to do anything that you can to help rescue this company right now. And put some distance between yourself and Donald Trump. I don't know. I would love to know the answer to that question. Is that what Elon Musk is up to? It sure seems like he's trying to do something to rescue this company right now. Great minds.
Because I said, wait a minute. Is Elon Musk becoming woke again? Or woke now? Because, you know, electric cars, green energy or whatever. Elon Musk was kind of woke. He was the Democrat back in the day. And I said, is he becoming woke now?
Yeah.
Oh, Don just froze on me. There he is. We were talking about Elon Musk, and then Substack blew up. I think he did it.
I think it's the platform because I had full bars. I don't know what's going on.
I don't either.
Maybe it's in my... Wow.
Well, the Substack machine, as I like to say, sometimes the little hamster in the wheel just stops spinning and the whole thing grinds to a halt. But no, we were just talking about this big, beautiful bill.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:01
2
What is the controversy around Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' and how did it start?
0:01–1:09
3
Why is Elon Musk publicly attacking the bill and is he distancing himself from Trump?
1:09–8:12
4
Could Elon Musk's political pivot be a strategic PR move to save his companies?
8:12–10:45
5
How did technical issues disrupt the conversation and what did hosts say about Substack?
10:45–12:11
6
What are the allegations about Karine Jean‑Pierre's book and party switch?
12:11–14:13
Speakers
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