June 9, 2025 • 6 mins
“What happens when two of the world’s most powerful men start beefing on platforms they own?” That’s the explosive question at the heart of this can’t-miss episode of The Ben and Skin Show on 97.1 The Eagle.With Ben Rogers out sick, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray take the reins and dive deep into one of the most bizarre and revealing political feuds of our time: Donald Trump vs. Elon Musk.What starts as a ceremonial farewell turns into a behind-the-scenes political power play involving NASA, SpaceX, and a mysterious folder handed to Trump moments before a live broadcast. The crew unpacks the drama, the history, and the absurdity of two billionaires trading blows on their own social media platforms — and what it says about the state of modern politics.This episode is a wild ride through political theater, tech-fueled influence, and the absurdity of modern power dynamics — all delivered with the sharp wit and chemistry of Skin, KT, and Krystina.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Been in Skin Show ninety some point one. The Eagle
bent out sick today. We do think he'll be back tomorrow.
But you got me, you got tizzle, you got a
little bait of corn bread, and we're gonna take you
on through the afternoon, including four o'clock.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What's going on in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
When we introduce you to the Metroplex's newest millionaire right
there in Garland. Cool story, But right now it's time
for this.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Too. We want.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Shame on you, poo. We can't get fool again. Oh God,
love you.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
What am I talking about? The Bible means a lot
to me, but I don't want to get into specifics.
Rold Testament probably equal.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I call upon all nations to do everything they can
to stop these terrorists killers.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Now what's drive? It's pretty incredible.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
This is the segment where we celebrate all of the
wonderful contributions to popular culture that our politicians have given
us over the year.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And boy, we had a big one this weekend, K two.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It was a wild week, honestly, and I think it
goes back a little deeper. Let's go to July twenty
twenty two, real quick, Okay, this is when Elon Musk
basically said that Trump should not run for president, and
then Trump got kind of mad, called him a BS artist,
and if you remember, at that point, he was also
saying like Elon should not try to buy Twitter, and
then he suspended Trump's Twitter account, okay, and then he
(01:27):
kept saying that he was gonna put his support behind
Ron DeSantis and that Ron de Santis would beat Joe Biden.
So Elon's had these guys they turned like all the time.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
And also, just in case you don't know, uh, Elon
voted for Biden in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, Elon, Actually what happened is most of the quote
unquote tech bros. You know, the Silicon Valley guys had
of Facebook, had of Apple, on and on.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
They generally voted left.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And it's more recent that you saw at Trump's inauguration,
all those guys were there. That push to the right
happened in the last year so year and a half,
and it really like Elon kind of sparked that movement
in a lot of ways, because at the center of
all of this was this idea of free speech and
how it played out on social media. And a lot
(02:22):
of the social media platforms claimed that the Biden administration
tried to get them to withhold information on COVID nineteen.
And obviously one of the biggest figures that can swing
an election now is Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan was in
the middle of all of that. So that's kind of
the brief history of Elon didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Pledge your support to Trump until about an hour after
he got shot in the ear.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That was I remember that.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, And also just you guys, remember I mean I
don't know of our listeners remember this. Trump was a
registered Democrat till twenty twelve. Yeah, I mean longtime New
York Democrats. So these parties switching and all this stuff,
it's you know, it happens out of for these guys
at least it's transactional.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So the story and.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
It's this has not been like widely reported at least,
but this kind of came out Friday and then the
rest of the weekend. So they're having a big goodbye
ceremony for Elon and they're like, thank you for your contributions.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
You can go back to you know, Tesla and SpaceX
and do your thing. Can you give them a key
or key. It's very strange.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
But before that happened, an aide walks up to Trump
and hands him a folder and Trump looks at it
and he keeps it together on TV, does the goodbye ceremony.
Then when on the cameras leave, this is reporting the
New York Times. So whatever you want to believe the
liberal paper. But I would argue they're not actually, but
whatever the so, then all the cameras leave, and then
(03:46):
Trump then confronts Elon, how could you do this? So
what had happened is Elon had this guy that he
wanted to run NASA, and this guy had a democratic
background and had been donating to some democratic causes.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, we'll say, okay.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
When Trump saw that on this file that his aid
gave him right before this ceremony, and Trump got pissed,
and then he confronted Elon about it, and then Elon's like, no.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
No, it'll be good. It'll show that you can work
across the aisle. It'll be good.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And Trump sits on it for another day and then
finally he's like, no, I'm not doing that, and that's
when he actually removed this guy to be the candidate
to be the next head of NASA, who'd be working
with SpaceX, who would hypothetically be helping Elon in some
of his SpaceX projects. And that's when Elon went nuclear
(04:36):
on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah or X. I guess the.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
First day he went nuclear, Trump didn't respond. Yeah, and
then the next day it really started escalating.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
We have two guys firing off tweets about each other
on social media outlets that they own.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, that's really crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Uh. And Elon says that Trump's in the Epstein files
and that's why they haven't been released.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
He says that he.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Would have lost the election if Elon didn't step in,
which basically.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I think hard. You'll get into it, like, is that
election fraud? Probably not.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Probably can't do anything off that tweet, but it's very
it's very interesting. I for one, one hundred percent believe
Trump won. Uh, yeah, he did, like, but I also.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Believe that the main reason he won is because of
Rogan and Musk.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah, I mean Musk was controlling the platform and control
what people see.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
You know what we should also say miss steps in
the democratic part biding.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
It's just so hard for it, yeah, dude, Yeah, it
was just hard for hindsight I'm amazed by anyone. There's
like they covered it up. I'm like they did not.
They showed you. Yeah, he went out there and talked.
There was no cover up going on. They look at him,
look at the man. I think it's very.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Very interesting to see these just very It's these guys
are just looking for power. These powerful figures touched him money, right,
and we're just kind of tweeting on platforms that we own.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Everything has changed and the government is more transactional than
it's ever been. That's just the new normal, you know.
It's just where we are at this time and history.
All right. Samina and Skin Show ninety seven point one.
The Eagle coming up next, Garland's newest Millionaire on what's
going on in Dallas. We're a good job there, A
(06:26):
little baby cornbread
Been in Skin Show ninety some point one. The Eagle
bent out sick today. We do think he'll be back tomorrow.
But you got me, you got tizzle, you got a
little bait of corn bread, and we're gonna take you
on through the afternoon, including four o'clock.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What's going on in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
When we introduce you to the Metroplex's newest millionaire right
there in Garland. Cool story, But right now it's time
for this.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Too. We want.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Shame on you, poo. We can't get fool again. Oh God,
love you.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
What am I talking about? The Bible means a lot
to me, but I don't want to get into specifics.
Rold Testament probably equal.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I call upon all nations to do everything they can
to stop these terrorists killers.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Now what's drive? It's pretty incredible.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
This is the segment where we celebrate all of the
wonderful contributions to popular culture that our politicians have given
us over the year.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And boy, we had a big one this weekend, K two.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It was a wild week, honestly, and I think it
goes back a little deeper. Let's go to July twenty
twenty two, real quick, Okay, this is when Elon Musk
basically said that Trump should not run for president, and
then Trump got kind of mad, called him a BS artist,
and if you remember, at that point, he was also
saying like Elon should not try to buy Twitter, and
then he suspended Trump's Twitter account, okay, and then he
(01:27):
kept saying that he was gonna put his support behind
Ron DeSantis and that Ron de Santis would beat Joe Biden.
So Elon's had these guys they turned like all the time.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
And also, just in case you don't know, uh, Elon
voted for Biden in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, Elon, Actually what happened is most of the quote
unquote tech bros. You know, the Silicon Valley guys had
of Facebook, had of Apple, on and on.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
They generally voted left.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And it's more recent that you saw at Trump's inauguration,
all those guys were there. That push to the right
happened in the last year so year and a half,
and it really like Elon kind of sparked that movement
in a lot of ways, because at the center of
all of this was this idea of free speech and
how it played out on social media. And a lot
(02:22):
of the social media platforms claimed that the Biden administration
tried to get them to withhold information on COVID nineteen.
And obviously one of the biggest figures that can swing
an election now is Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan was in
the middle of all of that. So that's kind of
the brief history of Elon didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Pledge your support to Trump until about an hour after
he got shot in the ear.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That was I remember that.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, And also just you guys, remember I mean I
don't know of our listeners remember this. Trump was a
registered Democrat till twenty twelve. Yeah, I mean longtime New
York Democrats. So these parties switching and all this stuff,
it's you know, it happens out of for these guys
at least it's transactional.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So the story and.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
It's this has not been like widely reported at least,
but this kind of came out Friday and then the
rest of the weekend. So they're having a big goodbye
ceremony for Elon and they're like, thank you for your contributions.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
You can go back to you know, Tesla and SpaceX
and do your thing. Can you give them a key
or key. It's very strange.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
But before that happened, an aide walks up to Trump
and hands him a folder and Trump looks at it
and he keeps it together on TV, does the goodbye ceremony.
Then when on the cameras leave, this is reporting the
New York Times. So whatever you want to believe the
liberal paper. But I would argue they're not actually, but
whatever the so, then all the cameras leave, and then
(03:46):
Trump then confronts Elon, how could you do this? So
what had happened is Elon had this guy that he
wanted to run NASA, and this guy had a democratic
background and had been donating to some democratic causes.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, we'll say, okay.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
When Trump saw that on this file that his aid
gave him right before this ceremony, and Trump got pissed,
and then he confronted Elon about it, and then Elon's like, no.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
No, it'll be good. It'll show that you can work
across the aisle. It'll be good.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And Trump sits on it for another day and then
finally he's like, no, I'm not doing that, and that's
when he actually removed this guy to be the candidate
to be the next head of NASA, who'd be working
with SpaceX, who would hypothetically be helping Elon in some
of his SpaceX projects. And that's when Elon went nuclear
(04:36):
on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah or X. I guess the.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
First day he went nuclear, Trump didn't respond. Yeah, and
then the next day it really started escalating.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
We have two guys firing off tweets about each other
on social media outlets that they own.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, that's really crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Uh. And Elon says that Trump's in the Epstein files
and that's why they haven't been released.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
He says that he.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Would have lost the election if Elon didn't step in,
which basically.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I think hard. You'll get into it, like, is that
election fraud? Probably not.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Probably can't do anything off that tweet, but it's very
it's very interesting. I for one, one hundred percent believe
Trump won. Uh, yeah, he did, like, but I also.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Believe that the main reason he won is because of
Rogan and Musk.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah, I mean Musk was controlling the platform and control
what people see.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
You know what we should also say miss steps in
the democratic part biding.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
It's just so hard for it, yeah, dude, Yeah, it
was just hard for hindsight I'm amazed by anyone. There's
like they covered it up. I'm like they did not.
They showed you. Yeah, he went out there and talked.
There was no cover up going on. They look at him,
look at the man. I think it's very.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Very interesting to see these just very It's these guys
are just looking for power. These powerful figures touched him money, right,
and we're just kind of tweeting on platforms that we own.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Everything has changed and the government is more transactional than
it's ever been. That's just the new normal, you know.
It's just where we are at this time and history.
All right. Samina and Skin Show ninety seven point one.
The Eagle coming up next, Garland's newest Millionaire on what's
going on in Dallas. We're a good job there, A
(06:26):
little baby cornbread
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