{"id":59060,"date":"2025-06-05T12:59:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T19:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=59060"},"modified":"2025-06-05T13:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:02:32","slug":"just-saying-round-1-trumpster-v-musk-rat-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=59060","title":{"rendered":"JUST SAYING:  Round 1 \u2014 Trumpster v. Musk Rat Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"top-header js-cet-subunit \">\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59061 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/download-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/>Trump, Musk Clash Over Spending As Republicans Mull &#8216;Big, Beautiful Bill&#8217;:<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dek\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>The relationship between the president and his billionaire former sidekick has soured over Trump&#8217;s bill \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/trump-musk-fight-online-live-updates_n_6841cfe2e4b0bac0813e6a65\/liveblog_6841e68be4b0bac0813e762b#\">Huffington Post<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">*******<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">JUST SAYING:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">BY RAUL HERNANDEZ<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Sad, both Trumpster and Musk Rat share the same crack pipe, the same busted calculator, lying tongues, bottomless greed, soulless bodies, drug-glazed eyes, and dark hearts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">&#8220;Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake,&#8221; Napoleon once said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">I agree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Everybody holds on,\u00a0 as they both start spewing all the secrets they told one another during the bromance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Also, I predict Trump will soon start slicing and dicing some of Musk&#8217;s federal billion-dollar contracts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>Hold your breath:<\/strong> Musk will nuke the 2026 elections and start pouring money into the Democratic races.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Why?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Musk is addicted to the political limelight and wants to be a &#8220;playa,&#8221; and what better louder global and Wall Street applause than by taking down the most hated man in the world?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">By the end of this summer, I predict the Trump Circus will start to see Republicans take off their 3-D glasses and exit this freak show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Most will realize that they are beating on a dead Republican horse to win in 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Who would bet on a one-eyed, three-legged mule to win the Kentucky Derby besides MAGA Mike and a few other diehard Trump cartoon characters?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump, Musk Clash Over Spending As Republicans Mull &#8216;Big, Beautiful Bill&#8217;: The relationship between the president and his billionaire former sidekick has soured over Trump&#8217;s bill \u2014 Huffington Post ******* JUST SAYING:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>JUST SAYING: Round 1 \u2014 Trumpster v. 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