{"id":2443873,"date":"2025-06-06T11:47:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-has-acted-like-petulant-teenager-in-trump-feud-joe-concha-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T11:48:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:48:23","slug":"musk-has-acted-like-petulant-teenager-in-trump-feud-joe-concha-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-has-acted-like-petulant-teenager-in-trump-feud-joe-concha-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk has acted like \u2018petulant teenager\u2019 in Trump feud: Joe Concha &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmusk-has-acted-like-petulant-teenager-in-trump-feud-joe-concha-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2443873&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In an article by joe Concha for the *Washington Examiner*, Elon Musk is criticized for behaving like a &#8220;petulant teenager&#8221; in his ongoing feud with President Donald trump. Concha made these remarks during a segment on Fox Business&#8217;s *Varney &#038; Co*, noting that Musk&#8217;s actions have not been grounded in the realities of political negotiation, unlike Trump&#8217;s more calculated approach. The feud intensified over social media, particularly regarding Trump&#8217;s legislative priorities and Musk&#8217;s desired cuts to funding, which Concha asserts are unrealistic within the constraints of Congress. He also commented on the reaction from Democrats and the media, labeling it disingenuous given their past criticisms of both Musk and Trump. The article highlights the dramatic conflict while contextualizing it within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alaska-conservatives-fight-against-ranked-choice-voting\/\" title=\"Alaska Conservatives Fight Against \u201cRanked Choice&quot; Voting\">current political dynamics<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Musk has acted like &lsquo;petulant teenager&rsquo; in Trump feud: Joe Concha<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2134899\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Washington Examiner<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >senior writer&#038;nbsp<\/a>;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/joe-concha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joe Concha<\/a>&nbsp;ripped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Elon Musk<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">acting<\/a> like a &ldquo;petulant teenager&rdquo; as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">feud<\/a> between the Tesla CEO and President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> continues to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-courts-second-week-heats-up-with-nancy-mace-gerrymandering-case\/\" title=\"Supreme Court&#039;s week two sizzles with Nancy Mace gerrymandering case.\">capture national attention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Elon Musk, let&rsquo;s be blunt, has acted like a petulant teenager with an itchy Twitter finger over the past couple of days,&rdquo; Concha said during an appearance on Fox Business&rsquo;s<em> Varney &amp; Co<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3433671\/florida-sheriff-marcos-lopez-arrest-key-suspect-illegal-gambling-operation\/\">Florida sheriff arrested as key suspect in massive illegal gambling operation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3433560\/trump-considering-ditching-tesla-car-breakup-musk\/\">Trump considering ditching his Tesla after breakup with Musk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3433612\/trump-musk-clash-mediation-call\/\">Musk dissed Trump twice before &mdash; and they made up<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Musk does not live in the real world, Concha added. &ldquo;The real world is where Donald Trump lives.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2969548&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=02aaa6c37f6ec5c3363a380301a33f3e\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump and Musk<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3433203\/one-big-beautiful-breakup-elon-musk-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> blasted each other<\/a> across social media Thursday as their feud over the &ldquo;big, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-downplays-strategy-fight-after-huddle-with-senate-gop-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Trump downplays strategy fight after huddle with Senate GOP - Washington Examiner\">beautiful bill&#038;rdquo<\/a>; and EV mandates intensified.<\/p>\n<p>Concha said the president knows the math for Congress required to pass his reconciliation bill.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you try to pass the kind of cuts that Musk wants, it will not pass in this bill,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;So, Trump&rsquo;s plan is to just do it in layers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Big, Beautiful Bill, you have the mandatory cuts. Next bill are the discretionary cuts from DOGE, and then you go from there and get the wins,&rdquo; Concha added. &ldquo;Instead of trying to get it all in one, where, again, reality says, the math says, it would not pass what Elon Musk wants.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3433574\/trump-musk-feud-wont-be-speaking-to-him-for-a-while\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">TRUMP TRIES TO PUT MUSK FEUD BEHIND HIM: &lsquo;WON&rsquo;T BE SPEAKING TO HIM FOR A WHILE&rsquo;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Democrats and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-comms-team-gets-a-pass-where-trump-administration-would-have-had-a-scandal\/\" title=\"Biden Comms Team Gets A Pass Where Trump Administration Would Have Had A Scandal\">left-wing media<\/a> appear to be reveling in the feud&rsquo;s fallout, but Concha slammed liberal lawmakers who are jumping in.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When you called Elon Musk and Donald Trump &lsquo;Nazis&rsquo; and &lsquo;Hitler,&rsquo; to take the side of one of them looks pretty phony right now,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2134899\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2134899\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musk has behaved like a &#8220;petulant teenager&#8221; in his feud with Trump, according to Joe Concha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2644,"featured_media":2443874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP25007589472392-scaled-1024x684.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[14161,52093,4250,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2443873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-feud","tag-joe-concha","tag-musk","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP25007589472392-scaled-1024x684.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443879,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443873\/revisions\/2443879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2443874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}