DISCLAIMER: This article was first published in February 2025
In the opening weeks of the Trump presidency, Elon Musk has been running roughshod over the government, announcing his intention to close government agencies and seeking to block money that was duly appropriated by Congress. While claiming to be a free speech absolutist, Musk has also falsely called it a “crime” to name the young men working for him.
With Musk on a clear power trip, some Democrats have sought to drive a wedge between President Trump and Musk, believing that a falling out is likely inevitable since the two men are used to being #1.
That was perhaps the strategy of Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, the 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee, who declared on X Monday that “Elon Musk is a terrible president.”
Elon Musk is a terrible president.
— Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) February 3, 2025
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This led to a schoolyard insult-level response from the White House communications director Steven Cheung.
Tim Walz is a cuck. https://t.co/as0M1ZbCxC
— Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) February 4, 2025
This is an indication that the implication that Musk is the “shadow president” is beginning to touch a nerve inside the White House. Less than a week earlier, Musk had made noises about suing Walz, after the Minnesota governor referenced Musk’s so-called Nazi salute. However, it does not appear any such lawsuit was ever filed.
Throughout Walz’s time as the vice presidential nominee, there appeared to be a concerted campaign to question the former football coach’s masculinity. He was given the nickname “Tampon Tim” after Minnesota passed an initiative to place tampons in school bathrooms throughout the state while falsely claiming the law had placed feminine hygiene products in boys’ bathrooms as well.
Later, there was an attempt to imply that Walz had been accused in the past of child sexual abuse, but that turned out to be fabricated as well, including through the use of a deep fake video of a bogus “accuser”; the same phony account was also to blame for the “ABC News whistleblower” hoax.
There were some surprised reactions to what Cheung said.
This is the Assistant to the President & White House Director of Communications, and you expect the world to take this fucking joke of a corrupt government seriously?
Imagine this pathetic idiot speaks for the White house. https://t.co/tpwt6ztvWY
— Roulette (@uranoutofluck) February 4, 2025
Trump 2 is watching the world’s saddest virgins high-five the world’s saddest divorced dads for four years. https://t.co/eCWxQl8jwf
— Will Tucker (@mustache_fatwa) February 4, 2025
Director of communications for the United States government has the mental capacity of a basement bound Reddit user https://t.co/yIIDVkApRm
— Joey (@JoeyGame) February 4, 2025
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