White House insiders told the Daily Caller Thursday that the snubbing of Elon Musk’s NASA pick was the final straw after months of friction between he and the Trump White House.
After Musk publicly criticized Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” for days, Trump finally alleged the former head of DOGE has Trump Derangement Syndrome. Then the floodgates opened: Musk called for the president’s impeachment and alleged his former boss is in the Epstein Files.
White House insiders told the Caller Musk had been over-asking and trying to act like a second president. He was being told no a lot, something that caused him to become increasingly irritable over time.
Some of those big asks were for specific leaders at the IRS, CIA, and perhaps most notably, NASA. Days before the public implosion, Trump withdrew the nomination of Jared Isaacman, a Musk ally, to run the agency. Sources told the Caller that was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Musk regularly argued with Sergio Gor, director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office, over staffing. But he also feuded over policy issues.
He was kept out of the State Department by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his access was