Trump vs Musk: The Palantir Presidency? President Trump is deepening his alliance with Palantir, the surveillance tech giant with ties to Israel and the CIA, just as he threatens to cancel Elon Musk’s contracts over their recent fallout around the spending bill. “The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars,” Trump posted on Truth Social, “is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts.” Palantir is building a sweeping AI-driven database of U.S. citizens, integrating government-held data on everything from political activity to firearms ownership. Even within the Trump-aligned America First movement, this direction is raising alarm. Nick Fuentes, an influential hardline America First commentator, wrote: “Feeding every ‘MAGA extremist’ into an AI database controlled by a CIA/Mossad cutout… Seriously, if Palantir isn’t the deep state, then what is?” A deeper shift is underway: Trump is increasingly siding with Peter Thiel’s surveillance empire—and turning on Musk and the libertarian-leaning tech wing of MAGA. --- Sources: ['Trump Flipped On Us': MAGA Reacts to Potential National Citizen Database](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-palantir-maga-database-surveillance-2079905) [Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-taps-palantir-create-master-142225807.html)