Things are getting prickly between the Democratic congressional caucus and the Trump administration.


Last week, at the first House Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) Subcommittee hearing, Democrat California Representative Robert Garcia publicly showed an Elon Musk “dick pic.” The image so angered Trump officials that Ed Martin, interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, is now threatening a whole legal battle.


As with the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” saga and the dick pics contained therein, there are, of course, all kinds of privacy issues and potential revenge-porn statute violations in sharing such an image publicly. Except, that’s not exactly what Garcia did. Sure, he said he’d show an “Elon Musk dick pic,” but what he ended up projecting on the screen behind him was just an image of Musk’s face.



Yes, it was very cringe and juvenile — but it also made Martin and other Republicans like Nancy Mace "big mad". (They were equally mad about Garcia telling CNN later that night about his quest to stop Musk and the DOGE team: “What the American public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight. This is an actual fight for democracy.”)


“This sounds to some like a threat to Mr. Musk — an appointed representative of President Donald Trump who you call a dick — and government staff who work for him,” Martin wrote in a letter to Garcia.


Meanwhile, Nancy Mace tweeted, “@RepRobertGarcia went far beyond the pale last night, calling for weapons to be used against @ElonMusk. This won’t be ignored. We’re making an example out of him.”



Garcia, however, remains defiant. “So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter,” he tweeted yesterday. “Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.”



The whole thing has gotten pretty ugly — though maybe not as ugly as Musk’s actual dick.