Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Washington
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President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk are showing no signs of reconciling on Friday, but Republicans are increasingly urging them to settle their dispute.
Trump and Musk exchanged wild accusations and threats in a breakup that blew up far beyond a fight over the president's signature legislative package.
President Donald Trump on Friday called Elon Musk “the man who has lost his mind” and told ABC News that he is “not particularly” interested in talking to him about their ongoing feud. Trump, meanwhile,
Less than a week later, their potent political alliance met a dramatic end Thursday when the men attacked each other with blistering epithets. Trump threatened to go after Musk’s business interests. Musk called for Trump’s impeachment. Here’s a look at the implosion of their relationship in their own words.
Musk and Trump, ostensibly political allies over cuts to federal spending, publicly clashed on June 5 in a series of exchanges across social media and in comments to reporters. The origin of the dispute is the impact Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill has on U.S. public debt.
Elon Musk is leaving the Department of Government Efficiency behind, but its playbook has impacted dozens of agencies, departments and organizations and left thousands of federal workers unemployed or in limbo.
One group that’s hopeful about the Trump-Musk rift: advertisers, who had been in Elon Musk’s crosshairs since exiting X en masse shortly after the billionaire businessman bought the social-media site then known as Twitter.
Elon Musk has taken to social media to drop what he called a 'really big bomb' as his relationship with President Donald Trump has exploded in a spectacular, and petty, fashion.