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POLITICAL SATIRE

Exclusive but Possibly Satirical Look Into Another Oval Office Circus Show

Ruminato was there

10 min readJun 4, 2025

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As some of you know, Ruminato, the greatest news service ever, is one of the few media outlets with access to the Oval Office. That’s right. Ruminato is much more than just another Medium pub! Bet you didn’t know that, did ya? (see Notes for more info)

Elon Musk wearing black MAGA hat with circus tent behind him
Image of Muskovite by Gage Skidmore; Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic; background image licensed from Adobe Stock; image smashup by author

This morning, Ruminato was invited to sit in on another clown show meeting in the wake of the physical altercation between a doped-up Elon Musk and a dope named Scott Bessant, who, for unknown reasons, has been given permission by Congress to run the Treasury Department into the ground.

As reported by the always reliable Daily Mail, Musk shoved Bessant over Musk’s promise to use his TraitorBots to cut $1 trillion from federal spending. All without Congressional involvement! A lofty promise indeed.

According to the esteemed Daily Mail:

Former Chief Strategist Steve Bannon told DailyMail.com that Musk’s turbulent time in the White House was marred when he physically ‘shoved’ 62-year-old Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent after he was confronted over wild promises to save the administration ‘a trillion dollars’.

‘Scott Bessent called him out and said, ‘You promised

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Charles Bastille
Charles Bastille

Written by Charles Bastille

Author of MagicLand & Psalm of Vampires. Join me on my Substack at https://www.ruminato.com/. All stories © 2020-24 by Charles Bastille

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