'This is seismic': Trump's 'clout' said to 'blow up spectacularly' with Musk row

“Morning Joe” co-host Jonathan Lemire claims we all knew President Donald Trump’s relationship was going to “blow up,” just not as “spectacularly” as we are now seeing.

The remarks came in the 8 o’clock hour of the MSNBC morning show.

“For one day, anyway, Elon made Twitter great again,” Lemire said. “This was both inevitable but also stunning. The speed of this was so stunning, just how quickly it escalated yesterday. Now these are two billionaires with giant egos who, to this point, sort of surprised a lot of observers by how well they did get along.”

Noting Musk’s role in Trump’s campaign and administration, Lemire said, Musk was almost a “co-president,” but “this clash was several weeks in the making.”

“Just the stunning speed of how quickly this devolved. Yesterday, Trump's comments here in the oval disappointed but didn't take a blowtorch to Musk, either,” Lemire went on to say, “Musk then really ramped things up on social media. And look, you can you can hurl insults at Donald Trump.”

“One thing you can't do is one of his advisers put to me yesterday, you can't claim credit for his victories,” Lemire said, “and that was the thing that really angered Trump yesterday.”

“This is seismic," Lemire added, “We've never seen one person have the influence that Musk did, both as a campaign donor and then as a member of Trump's administration here. And the clout that his fortune gave Trump."

The co-host then said, “And yet here it goes. It blows up and doesn't just blow up, it blows up spectacularly.”

Lemire then turned it over to the host of “Way Too Early,” Ali Vitali. She added, “But that's always how it was going to go, right?"

She added, “I know you and I talked to people close to the administration on Capitol Hill, and many of them were forecasting that this was not a question of if the breakup would happen, it was when.”

Vitali noted that one of her sources asked her, "What could get worse than this?" Vitali thinks, "We know that there's always a deeper flaw here. I don't think we've hit rock bottom, though. The accusations that are being cast about are absolutely jaw-dropping.”

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