Sen.Ted Cruz(R-Texas) says he witnessed PresidentDonald Trumphave a “technicolor” tantrum upon learning trillionaireElon Muskhad posted that the president was in the Epstein files on X last year.
The senator painted a vivid pictureduring Wednesday’s episodeof entrepreneur Patrick Bet-David’s “PBD Podcast,” recalling how he and Trump were right in the middle of a meeting about school choice legislation in June 2025when Musk’s social media bomb dropped.
“So Trump, now, he’s not on his phone anymore nearly as much,” Cruz explained, “so what happens when something gets tweeted is they print it out.”
Watching the process play out in real time, Cruz watched as devoted Trump aideNatalie Harp“comes in, prints it on a piece of paper and hands it to him, and he literally reads that tweet, and I’m sitting in the Oval, and his knuckles turn white.”
Cruz said he didn’t know what had made the president see red until he saw the printout moments later.
“It happens that second?” Bet-David asked.
“They hand it to him that second. ... And he was so pissed,” Cruz said. “I joked I learned some curse words I didn’t even know.”
Though the Republican said Musk’s post completely derailed their conversation about school choice, Cruz said he did find out “Trump had some technicolor views” to share about the tech mogul who had been his political ally.
In the June 2025 post, Musk claimed records from investigations into sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein were being withheld because of documents involving Trump.
Trump’sname did appearmany times in documents made public after Congress compelled the Department of Justice to release the records last November. Those files included no evidence of Trump being involved in Epstein’s criminal activities.
Musk made the eyebrow-raising accusation as he was feuding with the president afterexiting the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
The Tesla CEO went on to delete the post and has since reconciled with Trump.
Cruz told Bet-David he was happy that the pair had made up, saying, “It was not good for America to have the two of them battling,” but added that the episode will remain in his memory as “a hand grenade thrown in the middle of everything.”
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