Posted on 06/05/2025 2:02:31 PM PDT by thegagline
Elon Musk on Thursday said that his company SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft “immediately” because of threats by President Donald Trump to cancel government contracts with Musk’s businesses.
Musk’s announcement, on his social media site X, came amid an escalating war of words with Trump that began after the Tesla CEO criticized the major tax bill being pushed by the Republican president.
“In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately,” Musk wrote. Dragon is the only U.S. option for delivering crew to and from the International Space Station. A Dragon capsule brought NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to Earth in March after the pair were stranded for months at the ISS by a Boeing Starliner capsule. SpaceX is one of the biggest federal contractors. Since 2008, SpaceX has received more than $20 billion in contracts from NASA, the Air Force and other agencies. According to SpaceX’s website, “The Dragon spacecraft is capable of carrying up to 7 passengers to and from Earth orbit, and beyond.” “It is the only spacecraft currently flying that is capable of returning significant amounts of cargo to Earth, and is the first private spacecraft to take humans to the space station,” the company says. SpaceX has been developing a replacement for Dragon.
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The thought occurred to me as well. Elon took massive hits with his businesses for supporting Trump. Creating a view that they are enemies and that Trump is against him, may win him back a bunch of the left-wing kooks calling him a "Nazi", and setting fire to his businesses.
This may all be show and theater, but it could also be a collision of egos.
“ They’re just playing this up to distract their enemies.”
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I wish that were true. But, sadly, I think we’re seeing PRIDE COMING BEFORE THE FALL.
Paging Dr. Ron Paul.
Dr. Paul, please come to the Oval Office.
So Trump controls the executive and can fire anyone, cancel any contract, deport anyone EXCEPT Elons companies. Wrong. The President runs the executive branch. Elon went all out in Wisconsin and you now have a Democrat court as a result. He’s not Trump.
Posobiec is of that opinion. THere is a lot in that theory.
I'm thinking that accusing Trump of being an Epstein Island pedophile is a bridge too far. I think Musk should have stopped far short of making that accusation.
You say stuff like that, and it gets personal.
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Well.....WHERE are the files!??
That day when the Gods clashed in the heavens...
‘ Concur, I doubt his loyalty to the USA.’
His loyalty is only to him, always has been. He’s not the only one either.
As I commented on a previous thread, SpaceX accounts for about 95% of US launch capacity. If Trump wants to cancel SpaceX contracts, who is he going to get to launch US government payloads?
I saw this coming months 6+ months ago.
So easy to predict. Two strong personalities that hold grudges and have a history of blow-ups...
yeah, this was inevitable
Those who want to throw away everything Trump has done for this country in order to embrace Elon Musk are people who have been looking for an excuse to turn on Trump all along.
They support dumping the populist who has made it his mission to bring prosperity back to the middle class in exchange for an ultra-wealthy businessman who’s heavily reliant on government mandates and subsidies and supports the unfettered importation of foreign workers via the H1B program.
If Musk controls space force that would be horrible for national security.
So Musk disagreeing with Trump brands him a traitor? Unreal.
When Trump touted he was going to give everyone 5k in savings I knew right then we made a mistake. Now Harris was worse so we were between a rock and really hard place...I foresee the nation spiraling out of control now....
When Elon sent out a Tweet right after the election about MAGA being racist because we didn’t want HB1 I said he is mentally unstable and Trump needed to cut him loose. Of course I was eviscerated. I stand by my statement. The guy is very troubled and we have no idea what a nut like him will do.
You (we) ain’t going to see the files. If they had wanted us to see them, we would have already seen them.
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