Trump and Elon Go to War, Seismic SCOTUS 9-0 Ruling, Diddy Warned By Judge： AM Update 6⧸6
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The Elon Musk-President Trump bromance implodes amid fallout from the Big, Beautiful Bill. Sean Diddy gets a serious warning from a federal judge, and President Trump orders an investigation into who was really running the Biden White House. All that and more coming up in a crazy AM Update.
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Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Friday, June 6th, 2025, and this is your AM
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Elon and I had a great relationship. I don't know if we're well anymore.
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Thermonuclear war between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump. Was it always bound to happen?
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The Supreme Court ruling unanimously that members of a majority group, like white or straight
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people, do not have to meet a higher burden of proof to bring a discrimination claim.
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Whoever used the auto pen was the president. And that is wrong. It's illegal.
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Sean Diddy Combs getting a serious warning from the federal district court judge.
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And President Trump orders an investigation into who was really running the Biden White
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House. All that and more coming up in just a moment on a crazy AM Update.
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Well, it's over. For now. The Elon Musk-President Trump bromance imploding amid fallout from the big,
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beautiful bill. The former first buddies on Thursday trading blows over social media in an
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explosive back and forth that would make even Mean Girls Regina George blush.
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That is the ugliest effing skirt I've ever seen.
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Since leaving the White House seven days ago on glowingly positive terms,
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Musk attacking Trump's big, beautiful bill on X, slamming it as a, quote,
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mountain of disgusting pork, an abomination. On Thursday, Musk reposting many of President
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Trump's decades-old tweets, lambasting budget deficits and raising the debt ceiling limit,
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something the big, beautiful bill also does. President Trump responding to the criticism
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from the Oval. I've always liked Elon, and it's always very surprised. You know,
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Elon's upset because we took the EV mandate and, you know, which was a lot of money for
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electric vehicles. Elon knew this from the beginning. He knew it for a long time ago.
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That's been in there. That's been, I would say, J.D., that hasn't changed. That's been right
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from the beginning. I can understand why he's upset. Elon and I had a great relationship.
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Going on to accuse Elon of suffering from acute Trump hatred upon leaving the White House.
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He's not the first. People leave my administration and they love us. And then at some point they miss
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it so badly and some of them embrace it and some of them actually become hostile. I don't know what
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it is. It's sort of Trump derangement syndrome, I guess they call it. Tesla stock taking a sharp dive
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immediately following those remarks. Musk responding on X, quote, without me, Trump would have lost the
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election. Dems would control the House and Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.
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Such ingratitude. President Trump firing back in a pair of Truth Social posts, quote,
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Elon was wearing thin. I asked him to leave. I took away his EV mandate that forced everyone to buy
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electric cars that nobody else wanted that he knew for months I was going to do. And he just went
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crazy. The easiest way to save money in our budget is to terminate Elon's governmental subsidies and
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contracts. Musk then dropping this bomb on X, quote, Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. That is the
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real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT. Elon retweeted with the endorsement
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Yes, another post in which Ian Miles Chong wrote, quote, President versus Elon. Who wins? My money's
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on Elon. Trump should be impeached and J.D. Vance should replace him. Elon telling lawmakers on X,
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wondering with whom they should side, Trump has 3.5 years left as president, but I will be around for
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40 plus years. The Senate aims to vote on the big, beautiful bill by July 4th. Who knows what the state
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of the Trump-Elon relationship will be at that point? On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling
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unanimously that members of a majority group, like white or straight people, do not have to meet a
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higher burden of proof when bringing discrimination claims in court. The case centering around Marlene
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Ames, a straight woman working for the Ohio Department of Youth Services. Ames began working
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for the department in 2004. She received positive reviews and multiple promotions throughout her career.
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In 2019, Ames interviewed for a new management position, but lost the job to a lesbian woman whom
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Ames believed to be less qualified. Shortly after that, Ames was demoted from her current role,
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a move resulting in a $40,000 pay cut. A much younger gay man was later hired to fill the vacancy
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created by Ames' demotion. Ames filing a lawsuit against the agency in 2020 under Title VII of the
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Civil Rights Act, claiming she was discriminated against due to her sexual orientation, the fact
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that she was straight. The federal district court in Ohio dismissing the case without a trial, saying
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Ames had not shown, quote, background circumstances supporting the suspicion that the defendant is that
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unusual employer who discriminates against the majority. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the
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decision and tossing out the case, noting the people who made the employment decisions were also
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straight. On Thursday, in a 9-0 ruling for Ames, the High Court ruling, quote, the background
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circumstances rule improperly imposes an additional burden on plaintiffs who are members of a majority
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group when bringing discrimination claims to court. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson writing in her opinion
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for the court, quote, by establishing the same protections for every individual without regard
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to that individual's membership in a minority or majority group, Congress left no room for courts
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to impose special requirements on majority group plaintiffs alone. Justice Clarence Thomas, in a
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concurring opinion, noting this decision, quote, obviates the need for courts to engage in the sordid
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business of dividing people by race or other protected traits. The Supreme Court remanding the case back to
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the lower court for further proceedings. President Trump signing a travel ban, barring entry from
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12 nations and restricting entry from an additional seven set to take effect on Monday. The countries
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under the ban include Afghanistan, Iran, Libya and Somalia. The ban lays out several exceptions, for
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example, Afghans who assisted the U.S. military and athletes participating in the 2028 Olympic Games.
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According to the president's proclamation, the countries on the list do not have adequate vetting and
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screening processes to assess a proper background check. The proclamation also stating, quote,
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many of these countries have also taken advantage of the U.S. in their exploitation of our visa system
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and their historic failure to accept back their removable nationals. President Trump announcing the ban
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Wednesday from the Oval. The recent terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, has underscored the extreme
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dangers posed to our country by the entry of foreign nationals who are not properly vetted, as well as
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those who come here as temporary visitors and overstay their visas. We don't want them. In the 21st century,
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we've seen one terror attack after another carried out by foreign visa overstayers from dangerous places all
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over the world. And thanks to Biden's open door policies. Very simply, we cannot have open migration
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from any country where we cannot safely and reliably vet and screen those who seek to enter the United
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States. President Trump there referencing the Colorado terror attack allegedly carried out by an
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Egyptian national who overstayed his visa, though Egypt is not on the banned countries list. The first Trump
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administration issuing several versions of a travel ban, each met with legal challenges until the third version
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was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court on the grounds that the text of the ban was based on national security
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grounds rather than religious criteria. Democrat reaction to the Trump 2.0 travel ban, much more muted than under
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the first administration. This time around, rather than calling it an existential threat to democracy, Dems calling
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it a distraction from the Republicans' big, beautiful budget bill battle.
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This is what demagogues have done all throughout time is to divide us from each other, make us feel like we need
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to be fighting ourselves while on the side they're stealing from us. Mr. Trump is looking for distractions
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from, for example, his big bad bill that seems to be going down in popularity here thanks to his former
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co-president Elon Musk. It's a combination of this effort to to push forward with this great replacement theory
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as well as just to distract from what's really going on, which is a revolt against his terrible
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reconciliation bill that cuts taxes for billionaires and increases our deficit by two and a half trillion
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dollars. Legal challenges to President Trump's latest travel ban are expected.
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Coming up, President Trump orders an investigation into a possible conspiracy among certain Biden staffers
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to usurp the presidency for themselves. And the judge in the Sean Diddy Combs case warns the defendant he could
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be kicked out of his own trial if certain behavior continues.
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President Trump on Wednesday ordering an investigation into whether there was a conspiracy
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to deceive the public about President Biden's mental fitness and unlawfully take presidential
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powers for themselves. President Trump's order is specifically citing the use of the auto pen to
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sign clemency and pardon proclamations. Writing, quote, just two days before Christmas in 2024,
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the White House announced that Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 most vile and monstrous
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criminals on federal death row, including several child killers and mass murderers, end quote.
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In March, the Heritage Foundation publishing a report finding, quote, we conclude that individuals
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in the Biden administration, other than the president, appear to have used a device called an auto pen
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to affix the president's signature onto some of the most controversial clemency warrants of his
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presidency. Throughout the Biden presidency, the Biden auto pen signing executive orders,
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judicial nominations and more, according to the report. President Trump commenting on the
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investigation Thursday. The auto pen, I think, is the big scandal outside of the rigged election of
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2020. I think the biggest scandal of the last many years is the auto pen and who's using it. I happen
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to think I know. I'm sure that he didn't know many of the things. Look, he was never for open borders.
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He was never for transgender for everybody. He was never for men playing in women's sports. I mean,
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he changed it. I mean, all of these things that changed so radically. Essentially, whoever used the
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auto pen was the president. And that is wrong. It's illegal. It's so bad. And it's so disrespectful
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to our country. A statement attributed to former President Biden and given to news outlets reads
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as follows, quote, I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation and
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proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn't is ridiculous and false. The judge in the Sean Diddy
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Combs case issuing a warning about Diddy's courtroom behavior. The judge telling the defense on two
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occasions during alleged victim Brianna Bongolan's testimony, he saw Combs looking at the jury and
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nodding vigorously, quote, it is absolutely unacceptable. It cannot happen again. The
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judge reminding the defense that he already warned against Combs making any facial expressions toward
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the jury. The judge telling defense attorney Mark Agnifolo, if it happens again, he will consider
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removing Combs from the courtroom for the duration of the trial. In the afternoon, another alleged victim
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of Combs taking the stand, testifying under the pseudonym Jane. Jane's allegations central to two of
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the charges facing Combs, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. Jane
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testifying to meeting Combs on a November 2020 trip to Miami, quote, he was really charming, really nice,
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and I was already drawn to him pretty instantly. In January 2021, Jane testifying to meeting Combs
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again in Miami, the first date lasting five days. The following month, the pair went on a trip to
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Turks and Caicos for her birthday. Jane testifying that Combs gave her a bracelet that read love. He also
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gave her ecstasy about 10 times throughout the trip. Jane testifying that in May 2021, Combs asked her
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about inviting another man into the relationship. Jane agreed, then Combs called a man that night.
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Initially, Jane attesting to feeling exhilarated by the encounter, quote,
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I felt excited. I was happy. It was taboo. It was fun. She believed it would just be something they
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did on random occasions, she said, but quote, I truly felt that that night just opened like a
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Pandora's box in the relationship. It just completely set the tone for our relationship moving forward.
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She said these encounters, which have been referred to by others as freak-offs, but which she and Diddy
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called debauchery or hotel nights became 90% of their relationship. Jane testifying to telling Combs
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verbally and in writing repeatedly that she did not want to have sex with other men, but quote,
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I feared losing him. I just wanted to be everything that he wanted. Jane testifying that Combs would
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give her money in amounts ranging from $5,000 to $10,000. She said he made clear that without the
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freak-offs or debauchery, the relationship would end. The trial resumes later today with more
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testimony from Jane, who is expected to be on the stand for several more days. And that'll do it for
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a busy AM update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for The Megan Kelly Show, live on SiriusXM Triumph
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