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Episode Date: January 25, 2025

A Tech Bro War has broken out in the White House and is dragging Trump under, as Elon Musk immediately cuts the legs out from under Trump’s “Stargate” AI project that he claims will cure cancer, by offering that none of the investors have the billions of dollars to invest in it, as Trump puts Musk at the kid's table and shrinks DOGE down to Musk being the Nation’s website master. Michael Popok connects the dots. Wildgrain is offering our listeners $30 off their first box - PLUS free Croissants in every box - when you go to https://Wildgrain.com/LEGALAF to start your subscription. Head to https://Lumen.me/legalaf and use code: LEGALAF to get 20% off your lumen today! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Download the free CBC News app or visit cbcnews.ca. A tech-bro war has broken out day four of the Trump administration with little buddy Elon Musk totally undermining and crapping all over Donald Trump's new Stargate initiative, which he said is going to one day cure cancer. It's our new space program supported by Oracle, by Microsoft, by SoftBank, by OpenAI, each allegedly contributing billions and billions of dollars. Not so, says Elon Musk, who hates Sam Altman, who has a lawsuit against him related to a chat GBT and AI. These guys don't have the money.

They're never going to accomplish these things. Somebody didn't give the memo to Elon Musk. I'm going to talk about Elon Musk. I'm going to talk about the phony department of government efficiency, DOGE, which is now part of the US Digital Services Office and how it's been shrunk down to size. All on this one hot take.

I'm Michael Popock, you're on the Midas Touch Network and Legal AF. Tech bro war, anybody. Elon Musk just totally cut the legs out from under a giant press conference by Donald Trump in which he announced that Stargate was gonna be launched with hundreds of billions of dollars of investment by SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and Microsoft

to build AI data centers in order to try to cure things like cancer. All right, sounded good at first blush, except less than 24 hours later, Elon Musk took to the airwaves to say, I have it on very good authority, for instance, that SoftBank doesn't have hundreds of billions of dollars, they only have $10 billion at

best on their balance sheet. Now there is something that Musk left out because he likes to leave out things. He's in a lawsuit with the chat GBT open AI founder Sam Altman, who he has said, I don't trust. He's suing chat GBT mainly because he didn't invent it. He's suing ChatGBT because he says that it was supposed to be open source for all of the public, but that somehow that they're using certain features only for the paid version of ChatGBT. You know, a very technical lawsuit, but that just shows you there's no love lost between Altman and Musk.

And of course, where was Musk on the announcement of Stargate? I mean, you've got somebody who he considers to be himself, self-professed, the technology and chief chief of the United States, Elon Musk, and yet he's not part of Stargate. Already my spider senses were tingling. The tech guy is not going to be in on the biggest announcement of some sort of a modern age space program and then takes to the airwaves to undercut it. It was so bad that Carolyn LeVette, who's that press secretary for Donald Trump, who's already over her skis, let's just put it that way. I heard her announce, I thought I was watching North Korea TV, I heard her announce that in one day with those 200 executive orders, most of

them unconstitutional and illegal, that Donald Trump accomplished more in one day than Joe Biden in four years. She's going to be in for a rude awakening when she reads the history books and goes into the Biden presidential library. But let's leave that for a minute and all of that sort of propaganda that would be at home on Russia or North Korean television. She had to come out and say, well, you should believe those Stargate principles and stakeholders and President Trump. You should believe them and not Elon Musk. Now let me switch gears for a minute and tell you what we're watching is the incredible shrinking

of Elon Musk. Sure he's running around trying to act like he's involved with everything. Like I was in the room when Donald Trump signed the pardon for Ross Ulbricht. Good for you. You mean the guy that sold coke and heroin and other illicit drugs in exchange for Bitcoin on the Silk Road dark web website and went to jail for life plus 40 years and had his appeal denied by the United States Supreme Court. You're proud of the fact you were in the room during that signing, but he's just doing that to show proximity, right? This is why I want my office right next to Donald Trump so I can show my real estate

is really, really important. That's that sort of Musk, right? That's what he's left with because the DOJ, remember that DOJ thing? Sorry to talk about it that way. Remember that Department of Government Efficiency, which is neither a, say it with me, a department nor a government or in the government.

It's now sort of in the government, but by bringing it into the government to try to avoid some lawsuits, Donald Trump actually cut the legs out from under the entire doge because now he just changed the name of the United States Digital Service, the United States Digital Service.

That sounds like the post office, but if you go on their website, which I don't know why it's still up, but there still is a website for the USDS, even though Donald Trump by executive order just changed its name to the US Doge Service. Complete non sequitur and nonsensical thing. This episode of Legal AF is brought to you by Wild Grain. Wild Grain is the first baked from frozen subscription box for artisanal breads, pastries, and pastas. Wild Grain's boxes are fully customizable

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better services for the American people. Here's what it says on the website that's still up right now. We're solving big problems. Millions of people use federal government services every day. Too often, outdated tools and complex systems make these interactions cumbersome and frustrating. To improve these services, USDS, now US DOGE services, hires mission-driven professionals into term-limited tours of civic service. By working along civil servants, they help address some of the most critical needs, delivering a better government experience." That's what Musk is now in charge of? He's now the website master for the United States? I was worried about Doge. Oh, they're gonna cut three trillion dollars, meaning

entitlements, meaning Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and everything else. Right? Now Donald Trump, because he couldn't figure out where to put him, he just said, what do we got to get? US digital service? US Doge service. Yeah, that's good. Okay, that's what you're gonna do, Musk. Vivek Ramaswamy saw this coming, the other co-founder of Doge, that he high-tailed it out of there like he was double parked at a fire hydrant and went off to Ohio to try to run for the governor before the inauguration. That's why you don't see him like floating around the inauguration. Oh, gotta go. It's gotta go.

So now it's just Elon Musk, who's now been put on his own island by Donald Trump. How do you think this is going over in Trump's mind and in his inner circle, inner inner circle, that Musk cut the legs out immediately under Stargate? You think Donald Trump authorized him to do that? You think he wanted him to do that? You think he knew he was gonna do that? Donald Trump announces a $500 billion AI project to change your life. The

new infrastructure project for Donald Trump and minutes, within minutes, Elon Musk, his little buddy, decides to say it's all a charade. They don't have the money. And that led the other guys, step four, like the Microsoft guy, I've got my 80 billion. Oracle's like, I got mine. But SoftBank made promises the last Trump administration that never came true.

It's easy to have a press conference and announce some big project. Donald Trump did that before. Infrastructure, he didn't do any of the infrastructure that he allegedly announced. Biden did all the infrastructure and all the long-term investment in our American culture. So I love this story for so many reasons.

One, it shows you that Musk is hurtling out of the orbit of Donald Trump already, which is great because it takes away all of his power. I mean, I did a lot of hot takes in the beginning. I don't know. I don't think Trump's going to be doing a darn thing during the presidency because I think he's going to be playing golf and domestic affairs are going to be RFK Jr. And everything else is going to be Elon Musk, including regulatory. I'm not so sure. In fact, I am sure given the fact that Donald Trump

has put him at the kids' table with the U.S. Digital Service, now Doge Service, which like I said, is about websites. I mean, the first thing that Doge announced, Elon Musk announced is, hey, you know that pesky diversity, equity and inclusion office? I got rid of its website. That's his new superpower.

He can get rid of websites. All right. So I'm gonna continue to follow this tech bro war that's gonna drag Donald Trump under here on the MidasTouch Network and on LegalAF. Follow me on all things LegalAF at the intersection of law and politics here on the Midas Touch Network, over on LegalAF, the YouTube channel, and a brand new show. I'm doing a new podcast called Popak Live on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. Eastern time on this YouTube channel, and then we're going to get it

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