RADIOJune 02, 2025

Is this why Elon Musk left DOGE?

Elon Musk has left Washington, DC, and his post at DOGE earlier than many expected. So, what happened? Is Elon still friends with Donald Trump? Did the negative reports that have recently dropped push him out? Or was it something else? Glenn Beck explains why he believes Elon may just be sick of congressional Republicans, who have refused to cut enough spending, despite DOGE’s findings.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

STU: Glenn, do you think, when you're looking at the DOGE legacy. When you look at Elon's legacy. And when I mean legacy, I don't mean the actual legacy of what seems like about 40 children at this point.

I'm talking about how he'll be remembered by the public. The DOGE cuts, they're going to send some little sliver of them in a separate bill now, to Congress.

GLENN: Yeah. That pisses me off.

STU: $8.5 billion. Now, of course, it's much harder to pass a separate bill, and it's only $8 billion. Who do you blame for this?

GLENN: The G.O.P. The G.O.P.

STU: What does that mean?

GLENN: I think that very few of them are serious about it. Some of them are.

You know, Mike Lee is very serious about it.

Rand Paul is very serious about it.

STU: Chip Roy. Thomas Massie.

GLENN: Chip Roy.

Massey. They're all serious about it. But there's a handful of them. And the rest of them, you know, are either too stupid to get it.

I mean, we've spent a lot of time on our debt this week.

And what it means, and what's coming. If we don't get serious about it.

And there's $190 billion that -- that Musk, you know, said, we can cut all this stuff.

And nobody wants to do it. I mean, if you can't -- if the Republicans can't cut the easy stuff, what good are you?

Really, honestly, what good are you.

I mean, there should have been. It would have been nice to get to 900 -- 900 billion. Or a trillion dollars in cuts.

That would have said to the world, we're serious. And it would have put us on a completely different course.

Than the one we're on right now.

And, you know, Donald Trump is going to do his best to grow us out of this. To set up the conditions for AI and everything else. And bring manufacturing back here to America, yada, yada.

To try to grow our way out of this debt. But you have to cut. And, you know, I'm just sick of the Republicans. Just sick of them. Sick of them.

Okay. So wait a minute. You needed to have the House and the Senate, and the White House.

Well, you've got all three.

Now, what is your problem?

You don't have a big enough spread.

You're not doing anything.

You're not doing anything.

STU: Well, they're continuing much of the spending from the Inflation Reduction Act.

That's something.

That's --

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

You can't cut that out.

You can't cut that out.

You can't say, we're going to go back to the spending that we had in 2019.

You can't do that.

STU: Yeah. Or at least -- we'll even increase the spending for all of the programs that existed when Joe Biden took over.

But the stuff that he passed, that is brand-new. That people aren't used to. And depending on for years and years and years and years. We will get rid of the rest of the spending from those programs.

You can't even do that?

GLENN: No. You can't -- you can't --

STU: That's horrible.

GLENN: The money that hasn't gone out, you can't say, we're not going to send that out. You can't even say that.

STU: You can't say that. Some of that -- some of that, they pulled back on.

That's true.

And, of course, there are a lot of good things in this bill.

I think you would agree, at least continuing the tax cuts. I know we would both like more.

If you let those expire.

That would be devastating to the economy.

GLENN: Devastating.

STU: What do you make of the criticism from some.

This goes mostly towards the right, who are more hawkish on the budget. And such.

That look, it's true.

Republicans did not put this in this bill.

But Donald Trump could demand this is in this bill.

And there's no sign that the Republicans would not take him on up on what his demand was. There's no reason to believe they say no to him, if he would demand it.

He's not made a big deal publicly, pressuring lawmakers to include the DOGE cuts.

GLENN: Yeah. So I do have concerns about that.

I mean, you know, he should have pushed harder for that. I agree with that.

I'm not sure that the Republicans would have gone along with it.

Because, you know, if you -- you -- you do have a -- an argument, first of all. You cut. You have all of those Republicans, that are part of the game there.

And have their favorites. And they don't want anything cut.

Okay? Sorry, gang. Everybody will have to lose something.

I think if he would have made this his priority. Priority. It would have -- it would have happened.

But I don't think that is his priority.

It -- his priority is elsewhere.

And there are some things in this bill, that will strengthen his priorities, for instance, tariffs.

And that was, you know -- he was more focused on that, and I think more hopeful that maybe the Congress would do their job.

And they would care about the spending.

But he's not a guy, ever, that has ever talked about debt or deficit.

He has not believed there is ever a debt or deficit that is too big.

He believes that the problem is that the economy is not roaring.

So let's open the economy.

And we will make that money in tax revenue, and we will be able to afford these things.

I don't happen to believe that.

I believe it to some degree.

I think we have to -- we must make cuts. But that's never been his thing.

Tariffs always happen.

He's never talked about the debt and deficit to any real degree.

It's not his thing.

STU: Yeah. And that's not -- he didn't run on that initially. I mean, he cares about that, at some level.

GLENN: Republicans have. Republicans have. Yes.

STU: Over and over again.

Let me ask you about the Musk relationship there.

Elon, there's definitely, I think, a clear effort by the media to portray this departure by Musk as this adversarial sort of situation. That they are -- they have grown apart.

They don't like each other anymore.

There's been leaks about Trump saying that he was angry at Musk for trying to get some briefing on some China issue.

You know, that -- that, you know, a lot of the people inside the White House didn't like Musk.

And some of that -- yeah. That certainly is true at some level.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

STU: Do you think that they still get along?

Is there this separation?

GLENN: Yeah. No. I think those two get along.

They're thick as thieves.

I think they are in many ways, two peas in a pod. They understand each other, unlike I think a lot of people could understand either one of them. And I think they are friends.

What's interesting, he's, what? A month away from his July 4th goal?

He said he was leaving in July. He said, I hope to have this done by July. And, you know, I'm not going to be staying for very long.

And then on the anniversary, next year, July.

We'll have cut X-number amount.

He's -- he's a month away from this July.

And I think he just got frustrated.

And I don't necessarily think -- necessarily with the president.

Maybe. But I don't think.

He just got very frustrated.

Like, nobody is serious.

Why would I take all the hits that I'm taking right now. Why would I put my car company in danger.

SpaceX in danger. You know, risk the reputation to everything that I hold sacred and dear.
To do all of this hard work, and sleep on the floor.

I mean, he was sleeping on the floor. To sleep on the floor, to right the ship on this.

And nobody is serious.

Screw you.

I think that's where he is.

That's where I would be.

Screw you. I'm not doing it anymore.

STU: I think that's part. Also, we're talking about some of the people in the White House.

In the surrounding apparatus that don't occasion don't appreciate Elon Musk.

Some of that has been public.

A lot of it has been behind the scenes. You're now getting, that's departing. The hit pieces.

Things being leaked about Musk. The recent one today, this is in the New York Times, that Musk was using drugs at high levels.

Listen to this.

Listen to this paragraph. Mr. Musk's drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that he was affecting his bladder. Known effect of chronic use. He took ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, and he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills. Including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box, and people who have seen it.

Now, how many people have taken photos, Glenn, of your medication box?

I would say that's not common, unless it was trying to destroy you in the media.

GLENN: Right. Right.

STU: So, I mean, is that what this is, basically?

Everyone who had a problem with Musk, while he was there.

Now that he's out, they all believe he can leak stuff negatively to the press, to destroy stuff.

GLENN: Let me give you another perspective on why they're trying to destroy him.

The people in the White House.

In a situation like this, and really any real powerful situation.

You -- everybody jockeys for a position.

I want to be next to the boss.

I want to be next to the boss.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: A new guy has come in, has not played the game.

Nobody really knows who he is.

He doesn't may by the rules. And he'll just go right into the White House.

And he will walk right into the Oval. And say, yeah. I didn't talk to any of those guys.

Listen, I want to talk to you about this.

That must drive the career people, out of their ever loving mind.

It's got to drive them crazy!

What is he -- what is he saying to the president?

We've been working. All of us have been working so hard to get the president to go, this, this, and this.

What did he just say?

What did he say?

That's the real problem, I think the people in the White House have with Donald Trump.

Is his access. And his ability to connect with Donald Trump, one on one, without any filter in between.

They like filters.

People like filters. Between the -- the top and access to the top.

STU: Oh, we learned about this with Joe Biden.

When he was president. Even his own cabinet secretary.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. Love that filter.

STU: Yeah, different kind of way to do it.

Is there a part of this that is just germane to the way Trump has kind of constructed his White House. Which is like, you know, a lot of good things come out of it.

Where he has a bunch of different sort of factions. Right?

And he has a bunch of people around him who really --

GLENN: You mean like a team of rivals?

STU: A team of rivals.

He has that. And I think, at its best, there are really good things that come out of that, right?

When people who really care about the country, are arguing the best things.

The best policies, to go forward. The best approaches.

On the downside. There are always people out there, just out there to cut people's throat. So they can get closer to Donald Trump. So they can have that access.

Is that what's going on partially?

GLENN: Yeah, I think so.

I think Elon Musk is probably pretty pissed because he realized, a lot of people aren't serious.

And I just risked a lot.

You know, if Donald Trump got in. And all the people that he trusted, that he put around him. And they're all like, no. We're with you, 100 percent.

And was it the same kind of situation it was last time. I think he would be pissed. I think he would be really pissed. You know, who the hell can I even really trust?

Now, he risked his life. I think Elon Musk is risking his life to stay.

But he's certainly risking his career. And his companies.

And everything.

All around the world. He's got a bad name now. And I -- I just think, you know, if I'm risking my life, my fortune, and my sacred honor, and none of you are serious, I would say, screw you, in a heartbeat. And I think that's really what it comes down to, myself.

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RELEASE the Epstein Files … with a caveat

Glenn Beck wants EVERYTHING in the Epstein Files to be released … BUT with a caveat. Glenn warns that America will have massive problems if the files are released and people don’t actually READ the report. If we only listen to X posts and the media, we can be easily manipulated.

Transcript

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GLENN: Somebody asked me. Might have been you, Stu. Said, why do you think they're putting up a stink about releasing the files?

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: I can guarantee you, that Donald Trump's name is in the Epstein files.

STU: You said that at the very beginning.

GLENN: Years ago.

STU: Even with that -- more recently when Elon came out with his tweet. And we all said, of course, he's in the files. He was friends with this guy for a long time, but before people knew.

GLENN: Right, and he broke up with him, if you will.

STU: Before his initial arrest.

GLENN: Right, before the initial arrest. And he broke up with him, because it's like, hey, you treat women like crap. Okay. So, yeah.

He is in the filing. I can almost guarantee it. So why wouldn't you want that out?

For the same reason he's saying, you know, there's a lot of people in here, whose names are going to be involved, who may not have done anything.
That's not just protecting him. You know what that is? That's a comment on us. Because here's my stance on this. The whole thing should be released.
Every bit of it should be released. However, there is a competing argument in my own mind that says, not responsible enough for that. What do I mean by that?

This system of our government is wholly inadequate for an immoral and non-religious society.

And I don't mean, well, our society has got to go to church.

I mean, you have to have the underpinnings of things like the Ten Commandments.

Don't lie!

Don't cheat. Don't steal.

Don't smear your neighbor. We don't do any of those things. Okay?

We can't even do ten simple laws. Okay?

And they're all good safety tips. I don't know occasion if I renamed all of these things.

If I didn't use the religious context, every American would say, yeah. Well, that's a good thing.

Hey. You shouldn't worship your car.

Yeah. That's a good thing. You know, you shouldn't -- you shouldn't look at the image of somebody, and go, that's -- that's who I serve.
That's my God. No! That is a bad thing.

Don't cheat on your spouse. Don't lie.

Honor your mom and dad. All of these things, we would all agree, we can't do that as a society! We can't even agree on eight of the ten!
So how are you going to remain free? Let me bring this back to the Epstein file.

All of this information should be public. It should be out there. There should be no secrets.

Unless it is in our national interests.

And I don't mean, well, it could go badly for the CIA.

Good!

Let it go badly for the CIA. If they did something wrong, or they were doing something nefarious. Or they were doing something that the American people just wouldn't like. I want that exposed.

Okay?

But are we responsible enough to have all of the information?

I contend, no!

That doesn't make me say. I'm still saying, release it all!

But I'm telling you, the consequences will be ugly.

STU: It could be a mess.

GLENN: A mess.

STU: That's okay. Probably.

Because we're talking about -- if there's information in there, that the American people need.

GLENN: I think we are approaching a place to where it's -- it's not just a mess.

And here's why I say that.

STU: What do you mean?

GLENN: So you get all this information. How is this information going to be used?

Of course, Donald Trump's name is in there.

Is Donald Trump -- did he -- was he messing around with young girls?

No. No.

STU: Is there even an accusation.

I mean, there's a lot of things they accused Donald Trump of.

GLENN: Not that.

STU: Is this even an accusation that he was interested in underage girls?

GLENN: No. No. No.

And all they're saying is, he's in the file.

Well, there will be a lot of people in the file. Okay?

A lot of people in the file.

And some of them might be guilty.

Some of them, you -- I worry, because I want to know their names. But I want to hear, why were you with him?

Oh, it was before you knew.

Oh, it was this or that. You were getting money as a scientist, for your thing. From him. Okay.

But it wasn't about underage girls. As a society, we will not read the Epstein report.

We won't.

STU: No. Of course not. Right?

We won't read it. It doesn't matter if it's ten pages! The vast majority will not read it. What they will do is they will go to Twitter and X. And they will look for what name is in there.

And somebody will say, Donald Trump. And you know what you know this means? He was diddling with little girls.

And that will just become their opinion, not based on fact, not based on anything.

Except, somebody who has ill will on anyone or is just as stupid as the rest of the public.

Yesterday, this -- last week, this file came out from Tulsi Gabbard. And what do you say this is, Stu?

One hundred fifty pages, maybe. One hundred pages?

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Okay. My staff read it. We read it. You know why?

Because you weren't going to read it. And my job is to make it easier for you to understand what is going on.

My job really is not to tell you, what is going on.

I'm -- my job is actually to try to give you perspective on why it's happening, and what it means.

But because nobody -- and I'm not dissing you. This is a very, well-read audience.

In many cases, more well-read on some things than we are.

But generally speaking, the American people don't read.

They don't read these reports.

This one came out yesterday, and what is this?

20 pages, maybe?

And this thing is unbelievable. Because there were only five copies of it.

This was the -- they categorized the highest level of top secret outside of a nuclear weapon in our codes.

Okay. This was in the most top -- this was like the knock list, at the CIA.

Five copies, all in one -- in one safe. Where the most confidential CIA stuff is kept.

And it was released yesterday.

And it's not 30 years old.

It's four!

Did you read it? Did anyone actually -- I contend, very few reporters, very few talking heads on cable TV even read these.

STU: Yeah. And, by the way, it's not an unreasonable expectation for a population to have a media that is going to inform them properly about very lengthy government documents.

GLENN: Correct. Correct.

But once you have seen that that media is not reliable.

And everybody knows that now.

You may not find me reliable.

But the person who doesn't find me reliable, also probably doesn't find CNN reliable.

They might go, well, they're a little better than he is.

But they -- they don't trust anybody.

And they shouldn't.

At this point, you shouldn't trust anybody.

Which means, you have to know it for yourself. So when you're looking at the Epstein files. You're looking at these files.

These files, everyone should care about. Because this shows. This -- it's not new. Some of it is!

But very little of it is new.

It's just authentication that what has been said, all these years, by people like me, is accurate!

And you wouldn't have fought about its accuracy, if it didn't matter.

But you fought -- he didn't know what he was talking about. That's a conspiracy theory. He has to be shut down. Get him off Facebook. Take him off Twitter.

He can't say these things. Why would you say that if it didn't matter? Now you not only that know those things are true, but you now see a pattern of behavior. It's like looking at one murder, and then another murder, and then another murder.

Okay. We've got three murderers, on the loose now.

And then all of a sudden, you realize, wait a minute. Not only did those murders happen, it was the same guy. Now you have a serial killer.

Is a serial killer more -- a higher priority than just one murderer?

Yeah.

Yeah. It is. Because they are -- they are killing people -- I don't know. Out of the love of it. Out of their distorted.

It's not a crime of passion. It becomes something really, really sick.

This is a serial killer.

You now have not just one offs. You see, this is a pattern.

This group has been doing this from the beginning. You know what I said, you know, if they can get away with this. They will keep doing it.

This shows, they got away with it, for so long.

By 2016. They just, they don't care anymore.

They don't care anymore.

But how many people are reading this?

What they'll do is they'll listen to people like me, or people like CNN, and they'll say, oh, well. I heard Jake Tapper talk about it.

It means nothing.

Well, now, Jake Tapper might not mean -- let me leave you with a better example. I really like Andy McCarthy.

I really like him.

I read his work.

STU: It's great.

GLENN: I believe -- I believe his opinion is valid. I don't think it's right.

But I think it's valid.

And I read his work. And I thought, okay.

Wait a minute. If Andy McCarthy is saying this. I really need to examine what he's saying. And see where I disagree with him.

And as I went in, I was prepared to change my mind, if I thought Andy was right.

Now, he might in the end, be right.

But I don't think so.

Because what he is saying is, a lot of this stuff is old news.

Yes, Andy, it is. But it's now a grand conspiracy. You have to look at the through-line.

You're not looking at the one-off events.

You're looking at two things.

One, it's now been verified at the highest sources in writing.

You have whistleblowers, at the time, writing saying, we can't do this.

We didn't have that information. You have on record now, Brennan saying, you don't know what I know. Well, what did you know? We have new information.

What new information?

Because none of it is quoted anywhere.

And he's never answered the question.

What new information?

Most importantly, you have the grand conspiracy line.

We are not going to save the country, unless we do our own homework. Then listen to people and say, let me start at the opposite ends. Let me start with Glenn Beck and CNN.

And let me see what both of them are saying. Okay.

I think they both agree on this one thing. So I know that's true. But I think Glenn is more right. Or CNN is more right on this.

And then you just keep narrowing it in. And all it does is not form your opinion. It helps verify for you what you think is right.

Or it changes your opinion, because you realize, I missed that.

I didn't understand that. So when we're looking at all of this stuff needs to be transparent. We need to know all of the information.

Yes, we do.

But we also are played, every single day by many times, the exact same actors, who do not have a good bone in their body.

They're trying to destroy us. They're trying to separate us and divide us.

And they have proven themselves to lie at any level, without thinking about you or the ramifications.

And we continue to listen to them, over and over and over again.