Evangelical Republican Whines: Trump Has Tossed Us ‘Under The Bus’ For Elon Musk

Now that he has Twitter/Tesla CEO Elon Musk as his sugar daddy, Donald Trump is turning his back on many of the core voting blocs that helped him get elected in both 2016 and 2024.

For example, evangelical Christians aren’t exactly happy that Trump has embraced Musk and other controversial figures according to David Siders of Politico, who has been traveling the United States since the November election and talking to Americans about what they expect during the next four years.

One of the people Siders sat down with was Republican Party leader Timothy Bachleitner of Wisconsin.

“He’s gained so much support from different groups of people he no longer needs the conservative Christians to do what he needs to do, so they’ve been thrown under the bus,” he worried.

Consider some of the people Trump is now making part of his inner circle, Bachleitner added.

“He’s got the RFK, and he’s got the Tulsi Gabbard and Elon Musk and Joe Rogan — and that whole kind of independent individual has become full steam to allow him to say I no longer need to cater to a big part of my base, and I happen to be in that portion. So that breaks my heart.”

Many evangelicals have also expressed disappointment with Trump’s refusal to back a national abortion ban, which he said he would not seek in a second term, suggesting such matters should be left to the states.

Trump has also reversed his position on H1-B work visas, which he once said needed to be restricted.

The work visa issue has come back to the forefront of discussion after Musk called for an increase in the number of work visas for foreign engineers, a move that would greatly benefit high-tech companies such as Twitter, Facebook, and other internet startups.

Shortly after Musk made his statements on the H1-B issue, Trump said he agreed, telling reporters, “I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I’ve been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It’s a great program.”

Guess the evangelicals need to pray that Musk will board one of his rockets and get lost somewhere in outer space. That’s about the only way they’ll ever have any influence in the GOP as long as Trump (and Musk) are leading the Republican Party.