Elon Musk bolstered Democratic Sen. John Fetterman after he slammed his own party for backing – or at least refusing to call out – the violent and destructive LA rioters. The Pennsylvania Senator has more recently broken with Democrats on some major hot button issues – including condemning the swath of anti-ICE protesters who last week began rioting in the streets while waving Mexican flags, raiding stores and clashing with law enforcement officers in southern California.

Fetterman demanded his caucus colleagues join him in denouncing rioters who are wreaking havoc on downtown Los Angeles . ‘I unapologetically stand for free speech, peaceful demonstrations, and immigration—but this is not that,’ Fetterman wrote on X with an image of cars on fire with a masked rioter waving a Mexican flag.

He continued: ‘This is anarchy and true chaos. My party loses the moral high ground when we refuse to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings, and assaulting law enforcement.’ Musk replied to Fetterman’s post with an emoji of an American flag.

Earlier this month, Musk and President Donald Trump got into a very public spat after the billionaire broke with his former best friend over his massive spending proposal – the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. This caused a civil war within the MAGAverse.

And now, the billionaire CEO is using his social media platform to side with a Democratic Senator. But Musk wasn’t the only one who praised and amplified Fetterman’s condemnation of his own party.

Ohio gubernatorial candidate and former 2024 presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy reposted Fetterman and noted on X: ‘It’s hard to preach hard truths to your own side. I respect this.’ Deputy White House chief of staff Taylor Budowich called Fetterman’s post a ‘wake up call for many Democrats.’

‘[T]here is no room for you in the party of Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris,’ he continued. ‘Their self-obsessed pursuits of power are blind to you and your concerns. They defend chaos, reject biology, and are unbothered by the invasion of our nation.’ Notorious pro-Second Amendment activist Dana Loesch posted: ‘Well said, Senator.’

Fetterman was the first, and so far only, Democratic senator to condemn the riots. Though Sen. Bernie Sanders – a progressive Vermont independent who caucasus with Democrats – spoke out against violence and called it ‘counterproductive’ to creating real change.

‘Dr. King defeated racist government officials & ended segregation through disciplined non-violent resistance,’ Sanders declared in a post on X. ‘Defeating Trumpism, oligarchy & authoritarianism requires that same level of discipline,’ he continued. ‘Violent protests are counterproductive and play right into Trump’s playbook.’

Trump deployed 2,100 National Guard troops to Los Angeles to respond to the unrest. Additionally, on June 9 he mobilized a battalion of 700 active duty Marines in southern California and justified it by claiming he was preventing a ‘disaster’ and restoring ‘law and order.’

President Trump has not invoked the Insurrection Act so far, which would allow broader military activity. The federal response came after peaceful protests began to devolve this week with demonstrators throwing objects at law enforcement, burning vehicles and looting stores.

‘We made a great decision in sending the National Guard to deal with the violent, instigated riots in California,’ Trump wrote on Monday in a post to Truth Social. ‘If we had not done so, Los Angeles would have been completely obliterated.’ California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the deployment an ‘illegal and immoral’ overreach and said it represents an ‘unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.’