Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates
Musk has gone to war with Donald Trump. What happens next? Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Elon Musk signals he may back down in public row with Donald Trump Wired : Elon Musk's Feud With President Trump Wipes $152 Billion Off Tesla's Market Cap Dan Mangan / CNBC : Musk says SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat New York Times : If Elon Musk and President Trump Divorce, Who Gets Silicon Valley? Financial Express : ‘Modi Ji should declare a ceasefire’: Internet explodes with memes amid Donald Trump-Elon Musk feud, check our top 10 here CNBC : Tesla loses $152 billion in market cap after Musk-Trump spat, biggest hit ever Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch : Why are Elon Musk and Donald Trump fighting? Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge : Let's all do a dramatic reading of Trump and Musk's mean posts Issie Lapowsky / Vanity Fair : When Megalomaniacs Collide: Trump Threatens to Ditch His Tesla as War with Musk Goes Nuclear Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge : Elon Musk discovers Trump doesn't stay bought Ty Roush / Forbes : Here Are The Odds Musk And Trump Reconcile—According To Betting Markets Shannon Carroll / Quartz : Trump calls Elon Musk ‘the man who lost his mind’ Zachary Basu / Axios : Musk calls for Trump's impeachment Jake Lahut / Wired : The Elon Musk and Donald Trump Breakup Has Started Bloomberg : Tesla Plunges After Conflict Erupts Between Musk and Trump Bloomberg : Musk Walks Back Threat to Decommission Dragon Spacecraft Dimitar Dzhondzhorov / CryptoPotato : Donald Trump Ready to Ditch His Tesla Amid Musk Feud? (Report) Ariana Baio / The Independent : Musk lost $34 billion in net worth as Tesla stock tanked amid Trump online war Perry Chiaramonte / New York Sun : Trump Says Musk ‘Lost His Mind’ Even as Feud Appears To Be Cooling Down Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill : Musk says Trump is named in Epstein files Eric Berger / Ars Technica : What would happen if Trump retaliated against Musk's companies? The Indian Express : Day after social media hostilities, Trump and Musk signal a possible ceasefire Michael Grothaus / Fast Company : Trump-Musk feud: Will Tesla stock price bounce back today? Tom Saunders / The Times : Trump row with Elon Musk takes Filtronic shares down 15% Fox News : Elon Musk may speak to Trump aides in push to calm feud Henry Blodget / Regenerator : Trump could destroy Tesla and Musk Chris Spiker / Daily Voice : Tesla Stock Rebounds As Trump-Musk Feud Hits New Lows Fortune : SpaceX's valuation will likely be cut in half as Trump and Elon Musk publicly feud, longtime Tesla investor says George Steer / Financial Times : Tesla's market value suffers biggest one-day drop after Trump-Musk spat Avery Lotz / Axios : Trump admits rupture with Musk: “Elon and I had a great relationship” Lauren Goode / Wired : Silicon Valley Is Starting to Pick Sides in Musk and Trump's Breakup Georgie English / The US Sun : White House arranges ‘peace talks’ call after Trump and Elon's feud went nuclear with Epstein barb & impeachment threat Sophie Vorrath / RenewEconomy : Tesla stock plunges as Musk takes a chainsaw to his business empire - and EV self-driving Ronak Kumar / The Crypto Times : Tesla Drops 21%; $150B Lost After Musk Criticizes Trump Bill Grace Priscilla Teo / Tech in Asia : Trump, Musk feud grows with contract threats, impeachment Steven Walgenbach / Inside Bitcoins : Bitcoin Sinks, Tesla Slides Amid Elon Musk-Trump Clash And Epstein Files Bombshell Abid Rahman / The Hollywood Reporter : “The Girls Are Fighting”: Social Media Can't Get Enough of Donald Trump's Messy Breakup With Elon Musk Rounak Jain / Benzinga : After Threatening To Scrap Dragon Spacecraft Amid Tussle With Trump, Musk Backs Down Following Social Media Plea: ‘Good Advice’ Ross O'Keefe / Washington Examiner : Vance says he's ‘proud to stand beside’ Trump in first statement since Musk social media war Andrew Osborn / Reuters : Russia responds to Trump-Musk feud with jokes, jibes and job offers Reuters : Trump attacks Musk as public feud escalates over tax-cut bill Anders Anglesey / Mirror : Donald Trump speaks out on Elon Musk feud and says Tesla CEO has ‘lost his mind’ Amanda Castro / Newsweek : Trump Says Musk Wants to Talk After Explosive Public Feud - Report: Live Updates Mike Heuer / UPI : Trump threatens to cut Musk government contracts amid agenda bill spat Capital Brief : Musk says SpaceX will decommission NASA rocket after Trump's contract threat Jai Hamid / Cryptopolitan : Dogecoin crashes as Trump threatens to cancel contracts, Musk responds with Dragon shutdown David Weigel / Semafor : 'Elon Musk is illegal, and he's gotta go' Amanda Goh / Business Insider : Bill Ackman and Ye really want Trump and Musk to get back together Amalya Dubrovsky / Yahoo Finance : Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures rise as Musk-Trump feud rattles Wall Street Deseret News : Sen. Mike Lee on Musk, Trump fallout: ‘But ... I really like both of them’ Sebastian Moss / DatacenterDynamics : Trump threatens to cancel SpaceX government contracts, amid feud with Musk Scripps News : Vance backs Trump after Musk suggests he should take over presidency Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost : Elon Musk Says Donald Trump Is In The Jeffrey Epstein Files The Economic Times : Elon Musk's feud with Trump spurs one of his worst wealth losses ever Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin : 17 thoughts on the Trump-Elon feud David A. Graham / The Atlantic : Elon Musk Goes Nuclear WCNC-TV : WCNC — •343K subscribers •63K videosOfficial YouTube channel of WCNC Charlotte. Natalie Daher / Axios : “Such ingratitude”: How much money Musk funneled into the 2024 election Tyler Pager / New York Times : Trump Threatens Musk Contracts as Feud Escalates Bloomberg : Musk, Trump Feud Explodes Into Burst of Threats, Recriminations Andrew Prokop / Vox : The real reasons Musk is feuding with Trump USA Today : Escalating feud, President Trump threatens Elon Musk's billions in government contracts J.D. Capelouto / Semafor : Trump, Musk feud explodes into the open Costas Pitas / Reuters : From ‘disgusting abomination’ to ‘crazy:’ Trump and Musk in social media brawl Fortune : Elon Musk says Trump ‘is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public’ Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico : Trump just took his public feud with Musk to a new level: Going after his money Noah Smith / Noahpinion : Even if Trump chickens out, you should still be worried about the economy Alex Welch / The Wrap : Musk Escalates Trump Feud, Says President Was in Epstein Files and He'd Have Lost Election Without Him: ‘Have a Nice Day, DJT!’ France 24 : Bromance over: ‘Lying’ Trump, ‘crazy’ Musk clash explodes on social media Zachary Basu / Axios : Musk goes nuclear: “Without me, Trump would have lost the election” Nik Popli / Time : 'I'm Very Disappointed in Elon': Trump Says ‘Great Relationship’ With Musk May Be Over Wall Street Journal : Trump Rips Musk for Attacking Tax Bill Dan Mangan / CNBC : Trump says Musk is upset over tax bill because of EV credit, NASA post Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring : Yes, DOGE failed — and it matters Bluesky: Kara Swisher / @karaswisher : These are not serious people www.politico.com/news/2025/06... Walter Dragon / @walterdragon : The feud was never going to last because they both hate the rest of us far more than they could ever hate each other. @us-political-news : Musk calls for Trump's impeachment https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/musk- trump-impeachment https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/musk- trump-impeachment [image] Holly Brown / @hhbrown : Both men now have a lot at risk. Musk, who spent $275 million helping elect Trump in 2024, had promised to give $100 million to groups controlled by the president's team before the 2026 midterms — funds that have yet to be delivered & are now very much in doubt. Cap'n Todd / @capntodd.com : Not that I mind 🌮 getting owned here a bit, but here's a thought — should a *privately held* company be the U.S.'s only option for getting astronauts to and from the International Space Station? — Shouldn't that maybe be NASA? Granny T / @granny-t : Musk tweeted 80 times on ‘X’ today. Anyone else enjoying watching them implode? @madsweeneyhh : 🤔 Privatization leads to monopolization and corruption. You don't need to build a better mousetrap when you can just get government to mandate and subsidize your mousetrap. 🤷🏻♂ ️ — www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/m... Lora Kolodny / @lorak : anyone ever heard of contractual obligations? www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/m... [image] Nilay Patel / @reckless : Mark Zuckerberg now positioned to be the weirdest rebound relationship in world history Paul Frazee / @pfrazee.com : We chose the right day to launch the share button Will Jennings / @drjennings : Musk right now... [image] Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Shedding a tear for all the MAGAs who bought Cybertrucks 😢 Kevin Collier / @kevincollier : I am really committed to Bluesky, but some remarkable things are happening only on Twitter and Truth Social today. Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom / @nunesalt : The best part about this, and there are many, is that neither of them possess the maturity or emotional intelligence to de-escalate this. — www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/t... Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan : What's so annoying is that Trump is right - why didn't Biden do it???? [embedded post] @murderedbybluesky : “President Donald Trump on Thursday lashed out at Elon Musk as their feud rapidly ramped up, calling him “CRAZY” and suggesting that he may target the Tesla CEO's government contracts.” — I'll believe it when I see Elon disavow Trump & start calling him TACO + leaking the inner workings of DOGE. Angela Watercutter / @waterslicer : “If [Musk] actually successfully gets any votes switched to tank this bill and kills it,” a senior Trumpworld strategist tells WIRED, “then I think at that point he's fucking dead to Donald Trump.” — www.wired.com/story/elon-m... Renee DiResta / @noupside : I wonder which direction the Musk stans who made their money off Elon go — the X influencers who get their $$ by monetizing tweets that he boosts. Or grifters like Shellenberger, who owe everything to the ridiculous Twitter Files that they sold as gospel primarily to right wing rubes. [embedded post] Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel : a pretty great admission by Musk that, despite being a mega donor and shadow president for a month there, he's completely unaware of the dynamics of american politics. he was merely audience captured by the only people who could stand him anymore and now he's gonna alienate them too [embedded post] Truth Social: Donald J. Trump / @realDonaldTrump@truthsocial.com : Elon was “wearing thin,” I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY! Donald J. Trump / @realDonaldTrump@truthsocial.com : The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn't do it! Donald J. Trump / @realDonaldTrump@truthsocial.com : I don't mind Elon turning against me, but he should have done so months ago. This is one of the Greatest Bills ever presented to Congress. It's a Record Cut in Expenses, $1.6 Trillion Dollars, and the Biggest Tax Cut ever given. If this Bill doesn't pass, there will be a 68% Tax Increase, and things far worse than that. … Mastodon: @tankgrrl@hachyderm.io : I don't think the ploy to rehabilitate his image and save his business is working. — https://www.cnbc.com/... @researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host : For those of you who don't have #Twitter accounts and therefore cannot follow the #Elon and #Trump drama, I have something for you: a gift article to the New York Times' liveblog. — If Ali had the Rumble in the Jungle I guess this is the Slap Fight in the Fourth Reich. — https://www.nytimes.com/... … Threads: Jane Manchun Wong / @wongmjane : It's gonna be interesting seeing how Elon's political future will pan out in this bipartisan system He obviously burned the bridge with Dems. And now he's crashing out with Trump as well Unless he's managed to secure the remaining GOP's support, his political path onward might be challenging X: Elon Musk / @elonmusk : In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately [image] Elon Musk / @elonmusk : Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT! Elon Musk / @elonmusk : @AutismCapital Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate. Elon Musk / @elonmusk : False, this bill was never shown to me even once and was passed in the dead of night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it! Elon Musk / @elonmusk : Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle? Rat King / @mikeisaac : Tech Right: Choose Your Fighter w/@ceciliakang https://www.nytimes.com/... [image] Bill Ackman / @billackman : I support @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk and they should make peace for the benefit of our great country. We are much stronger together than apart. @autismcapital : “Your name is Elon now.” [image] @geiger_capital : David Sacks at the White House right now [image] Laura Loomer / @lauraloomer : It's heating up. Will be interesting to see what Republican lawmakers do now. I know law makers who are asking if they should side with President Trump or Elon. I've been on the hill all day and it's all anyone is talking about. The most powerful man in the world vs the [image] Ashley St. Clair / @stclairashley : hey @realDonaldTrump lmk if u need any breakup advice Shaun Maguire / @shaunmmaguire : Elon leaves it all on the field And he puts what he believes in ahead of himself How can you not be inspired by that? (Even if you disagree with him) @truthtrumpposts : Elon was “wearing thin,” I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY! Brian Stelter / @brianstelter : As every political junkie in America watched the Donald Trump-Elon Musk alliance shatter into a million X-shaped pieces, consider what was assumed and baked into the news coverage and commentary 👀 [image] Konstantin Kisin / @konstantinkisin : What Elon Musk is doing is genuinely heroic. He will win no friends in politics and will be ostracised by the current administration. But he is totally right. We (the entire Western world) simply cannot go on pretending our way of life is sustainable. Historically, countries @kanyewest : Broooos please noooooo 🫂 We love you both so much @jason : The Trump administration should recognize Elon's point about the budget & build a bridge with him — & the majority of Americans — who want to see us cut spending. Here's what they admin should say/do: “we hear you Elon, we are going to sharpen our pencils and iterate on BBB to Jonathan Karl / @jonkarl : In phone conversation this morning, @realDonaldTrump told me @elonmusk is “the man who has lost his mind.” Trump did not, however, seem angry or even concerned about the feud. As for reports that there is going to be a Trump/Musk call scheduled for today, Trump told me he is “not Radosław Sikorski / @sikorskiradek : See, big man, politics is harder than you thought. Antonio García Martínez / @antoniogm : The techie/populist romance was never going to last: their worldviews are absolutely different and they were united by little more than their mutual hate for woke. Since that's been self-exiled into irrelevance on Bluesky, there's nothing holding it together. Peter Kafka / @pkafka : It is *interesting* that the billionaires are using social networks they own to crap on each other. But it's also kinda besides the point: These guys aren't using social to “network” - they're just broadcasting. [image] Ron Filipkowski / @ronfilipkowski : Really shocked that an admin filled with podcasters, social media influencers, reality TV participants, indicted felons, crypto bros, drunks, Fox hosts, drug addicts, weirdos, and unqualified ass kissing toadies can't keep their shit together for 24 consecutive hours. JD Vance / @jdvance : Slow news day, what are we even going to talk about? @TheoVon [image] Paul Graham / @paulg : A lot of people seem to be treating this as if it were just a beef. But the underlying allegation is a very serious one. If it's true, Trump is surely going to have to resign. @buccocapital : Pmarca firing up the takedown notices on all the victory lap podcasts he did in January Dinesh D'Souza / @dineshdsouza : Who's right? Trump or Elon? They both are. Elon is emphasizing the way things ought to be. Trump, the way things are, given the current makeup of Congress. If Musk wants to fix things, don't start a new party. Help the GOP win a strong majority of fiscal conservatives. Ian Bremmer / @ianbremmer : putin calling for a 30 day trump-elon ceasefire Derek Thompson / @dkthomp : 4pm: [10,000 jokes] what if Trump just like deported Elon for spite 4:39pm: Steve Bannon: “I am of the strong belief that Musk is an illegal alien and should be deported from the country immediately” [image] Derek Guy / @dieworkwear : elon and trump are meeting outside uniqlo on sunday 5pm. 3251 20th Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94132 Matt Darling / @besttrousers : The Elon/Trump saga is just the latest example of how “fired” and “quit” are not well-defined categories, and should not be the basis for determining UI eligibility. Fred Delicious / @fred_delicious : this is like kendrick vs drake but with two drakes Lawrence H. Summers / @lhsummers : President @realDonaldTrump's Big, Beautiful Bill will add to the US debt load in a way that will end up undermining the nation's status as the preeminent global power. “This makes us vulnerable. The world's greatest debtor accumulating debt faster than any other country ever @steinkobbe : @hello__caitlin I love the idea of Trump seeing this and getting insanely mad at Ian Miles Cheong Yashar Ali / @yashar : The next 24 hours are going to be WILD. Matthew Zeitlin / @mattzeitlin : if elon really wanted to get back at trump he would give a long sit down interview to the new york times about his experience in the white house Benjy Sarlin / @benjysarlin : The consistent theme of Musk's political turn so far is getting stuck alienating the left who both buys his products and subsidizes his industry, without getting the right to either buy his products or adopt those policies as their own @hubpointless : Who gets JD Vance in the divorce Marina Purkiss / @marinapurkiss : He's going to try and deport him, isn't he? @panasonicdx4500 : rooting for the ketamine in elon's bloodstream like it's a car in the Indy 500 Ross Douthat / @douthatnyt : Somewhere on the back roads of Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy is having a pretty good day. B.W. Carlin / @baileycarlin : We're like 48 hours away from Elon tweeting that he stole the election Sam Stein / @samstein : I'm genuinely entertained I'm also deeply frightened that the president is engaged in this Jeff Bercovici / @jeffbercovici : Remember when we were all talking for 5 minutes about whether it was a national security problem that the US government has become so dependent on a single contractor controlled by an unstable person? Anyway here's some extortion [image] Aaron Fritschner / @fritschner : how can we possibly be expected to do our actual work under these conditions @herosnvrdie69 : Elon rn [image] Olivier Knox / @oknox : [clears throat] truly we live in a DOGE-eat-DOGE world [looks around for approval] Jason Kander / @jasonkander : Elon just told us he spent hundreds of millions of dollars in support of someone he believed at the time to be a pedophile. Alex Sherman / @sherman4949 : Everyone's “For You” and “Following” have merged Deva Hazarika / @devahaz : Wisdom of the crowds [image] Natalie Korach / @nataliekorach : He might have just blown up his life but at least Musk is generating the best day on this site in a long time Igor Bobic / @igorbobic : This is the first day Elon finally made Twitter great again @jaboukie : surprisingly diplomatic approach [image] @rightwingcope : Elon only admitting he knew Trump is a child rapist after Trump took away his government contracts says everything you need to know about him. @canteverdie : elon musk to donald trump at every meeting in the oval office: “you are in the epstein files. meet my 3 year old son” Caroline / @carolinekwan : Oh my GOD— [image] Joshua Topolsky / @joshuatopolsky : crying rn https://sherwood.news/... [image] Will Stancil / @whstancil : imagine being the ICE agents suiting up for your biggest mission of all time right now Peter Twinklage / @petertwinklage : those white South Africans are getting sent to El Salvador Oliver Alexander / @oalexanderdk : 🚨BREAKING: Convoy of Cybertrucks filled with Muskites heading for Washington D.C. [image] @highyieldharry : Bill Ackman rn [image] Elon Musk / @elonmusk : 🤨 Aaron Blake / @aaronblake : This feels like the unforgivable sin here. Bash the Big Beautiful Bill all you want; going after Trump's electoral prowess is turning things up to 11. [image] Ben Jacobs / @bencjacobs : Per one Beltway Republican I talked to “A lot of staffers are having to explain what Ketamine is to their bosses this week.” @modestproposal1 : amazingly, “dont pick a fight with a narcissistic billionaire who owns their own social media site” isn't specific enough Devi Parikh / @deviparikh : They lasted longer than I thought.. I had given them 3 months... @trueanonpod : What Elon Musk is doing is genuinely heroic. He will win no friends in politics and will be ostracised by the current administration. But he is totally right. We (the entire Western world) simply cannot go on pretending our way of life is sustainable. @mayemusk Will Guyatt / @willguyatt : If musk starts at 11am California time by saying Trump is in the Epstein files, where does he get to after some medicinal ketimine and five hours of Starcraft around 3am? Let's not forget he sleeps with two cans of caffeine free coke and a vintage handgun T. Greer / @scholars_stage : A few notes. 1. Last year I wrote an essay on the different structures of the Democratic Party and the GOP. With the Democrats, power flows from the bottom up; with the GOP, from the top down. The one major exception to this pattern is... you guessed it, Elon Musk. Sheldon Whitehouse / @senwhitehouse : Whether true or not, it says a lot about the creepy, self-serving power of billionaires in our current politics that one man — one megabillionaire — could think it's true. Shakeel / @shakeelhashim : Yeah, this fallout is terrible news for AI policy — Musk was the one vaguely sensible (and even that's a stretch) person in the WH Piers Morgan / @piersmorgan : BREAKING: Elon calls President Trump a liar. Wow. Will Sommer / @willsommer : MAGA influencers have been trying to force thread the neutral on today's Trump-Musk feud, but seems like this should really make them pick sides. Dar / @radbackwards : Elon beefin w/ Trump is fire. Can't wait to see the All In Podcast guys political beliefs disappear over night. Alex Cole / @acnewsitics : This is the day I knew the relationship wouldn't last. [image] Jake Lahut / @jakelahut : Well folks, I had a source in my story saying Trump was basically one Truth Social post away from ending Elon's future in the GOP, and here it is: https://www.wired.com/... [image] Jane Coaston / @janecoaston : Breakups during Pride are always the messiest. [image] Vivek Ramaswamy / @vivekgramaswamy : Federalism is the way. Time for Ohio to lead. Ian Bremmer / @ianbremmer : trump is more powerful than elon. but far less competent. Paul Fairie / @paulisci : It would be an amusement of a certain kind if X became an anti-Trump social network. Chris Bakke / @chrisjbakke : Big Balls from DOGE when both Elon and Trump are calling him at the same time and he's unsure who he should send to voicemail: [image] Rat King / @mikeisaac : genuinely today is like the series finale of twitter https://x.com/... @sentdefender : 🚨‼️BREAKING: Kanye to mediate a temporary ceasefire between Elon and Trump. [image] Will Guyatt / @willguyatt : Kanye as peacemaker in a row between Trump and Musk? 2025 has given us so much Noah Smith / @noahpinion : Trump betrays everyone eventually. It's a fundamental law of the Universe. [image] Ian Bremmer / @ianbremmer : trump losing the wealthiest man in the world in record time. Erik Voorhees / @erikvoorhees : Elon was the best thing about Trump administration Justin Wolfers / @justinwolfers : When the value of a corporation can fall $100 billion — around 400x what Elon invested in Trump's election — based on interpersonal relations between a CEO and the President, it does rather suggest that policy isn't really based on the best interests of the American people. [image] Will Guyatt / @willguyatt : Elon and Trump should just have this dust up on Facebook in front of a real audience - not on their own poxy social networks. Benjy Sarlin / @benjysarlin : God, one of those career “let's start a centrist party!” pollsters is going to make so much money showing 10-year-old slide decks to Musk. @ettingermentum : People acting like this hasn't been known for years is killing me @ettingermentum : nobody: the two most powerful men in the country on a random Thursday: [video] @roun_sa_ville : Elon's gonna rubber band to a kind of wokeness never before seen in the human race Jake Sherman / @jakesherman : and im surprised it took Trump this long to say this! [image] Ben Jacobs / @bencjacobs : Normally a breakup this messy is on Bravo not C-Span Jimmy Rushton / @jimmysecuk : There's a non zero chance this ends in Trump's ICE deporting Elon Musk to a gulag in El Salvador. Aaron Blake / @aaronblake : I noted last week how discordant it was for Trump to talk about abolishing the debt ceiling at Musk's goodbye event. And here's Musk citing a Trump flip-flop on the issue. [image] @jphilllllll : It's even better than I expected [image] Jimmy Rushton / @jimmysecuk : I don't think they're going to be friends after this. [image] Sir Humphrey / @bdquinn : The fact that so much of $TSLA's stock price seems to be based on the idea that Trump is corrupt and rewards his friends, but that Elon might not be a friend anymore, is pretty telling about how much fluff is there in the valuation. Gary Shteyngart / @shteyngart : Musk to Trump: “Have you said ‘thank you?’” Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : All day today [image] Will Guyatt / @willguyatt : I love the fact that Trump and Musk are currently dissing each other on two different social media platforms. Pekka Kallioniemi / @p_kallioniemi : It has begun. [image] Cody Johnston / @drmistercody : This was always obviously true, but the implication here is that Musk didn't care and wouldn't have said anything if he didn't feel tossed aside. [image] @fleetstreetfox : Twitter hasn't been this much fun since @elonmusk let that sink in. Michael Weiss / @michaeldweiss : Ketamine-addled Space Röhm is about six or seven posts away from an all-expenses-paid trip to El Salvador. @alifarhat79 : I knew it [image] Scott Nover / @scottnover : Going to be the funniest First Amendment battle. [image] Jake Sherman / @jakesherman : For what it's worth, back on planet earth, Republicans were always talking about taking away the EV credits. This has been in their plans forever. Greg / @greg16676935420 : 🚨BREAKING: Tesla owners are scrambling to remove their anti Elon stickers from their car now that he is feuding with Trump [image] @prettybadlefty : I'm refreshing Elon's timeline every second now desperate for the next tweet but he's definitely already zonked out on K now Ben Jacobs / @bencjacobs : [image] Phil Mattingly / @phil_mattingly : ok but does he have to give his key to the white house or what [image] Molly White / @molly0xfff : the dumbest thing about this elon/trump beef is it's all being intermediated by Autism Capital [image] @esjesjesj : Oh my god I'm hyperventilating lmao [image] Will Manidis / @willmanidis : who knew openai was the perfect spacex hedge [image] Noah Smith / @noahpinion : Although @elonmusk is absolutely right that we need austerity instead of massive deficits right now, I'm pessimistic about his chances of killing the bill. Trump just loves debt too much. https://www.noahpinion.blog/ ... @iamdcinvestor : Elon finds himself basically aligned only with Rand Paul, who is against every spending bill, so i think he'll find himself even more on the outs with this admin soon Elon's view on government overspending is perhaps right (though i'd argue small cuts around the edges aren't Richard Hanania / @richardhanania : Elon: The bill spends too much money. Also Elon: The bill is bad because it ends clean energy subsidies that go to me, which is one of the few things in it that save money He basically thinks government exists to give money to him and no one else. [image] Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias : A lot of people who don't follow politics or policy closely (which is most people!!) had a lot of good faith optimism about DOGE — the fact that it massively underdelivered in savings while also inflicting major harms genuinely matters. [link in reply because efficiency] [image] Ned Price / @nedprice : When a reporter asked Elon about his black eye in the Oval last week, Trump said he hadn't noticed it. Now he's claiming to have even offered him concealer. Not an important detail, obviously, but the way in which the American President so casually & endlessly lies obviously is. James Surowiecki / @jamessurowiecki : I'm happy to see Musk not toe the Trump line on the budget, but just complaining is not that useful. Almost all govt spending now goes to Social Security, health care, and defense. Which of these does Musk want to cut, and by how much? [image] Richard Hanania / @richardhanania : Even when Musk tells the truth about the Trump bill, he still has to lie about what DOGE did. These people are all pathological. Even when they say a truth it has to come packaged with a lie. [image] Yashar Ali / @yashar : President Trump says he asked Elon Musk to leave the White House and that Musk has gone crazy. In a second Truth Social post, he suggests that he's also going to cut Musk's government contracts, presumably referring to SpaceX. [image] @josephpolitano : this must've been how Churchill felt when Hitler broke Molotov-Ribbentrop Nick Denton / @nicknotned : Would it be so bad for Trump if Tesla's stock price tanked? It might seem to be an appropriate punishment for Musk's defiance of the President on the big, beautiful bill. And it would complicate Musk's campaign for austerity. @acyn : Trump: Remember he was here for a long time. You saw a man who was very happy when he stood behind the oval desk. And, even with the black eye, I said, do you want a little makeup? We'll get you a little makeup. But he said, no, I don't think so. Which is interesting. And very [video] Santi Ruiz / @rsanti97 : World-historical crashout, instantly one of the all-time crashouts. They're calling it the crashout to end all crashouts. Marvin von Hagen / @marvinvonhagen : twitter is def gonna get banned in the US 🥲 @signulll : what an amazing day to be on this platform. what a terrible day to launch your product on this platform. [image] Paul Tassi / @paultassi : unmuting Elon just for this Karma / @0xkrma : Sam Altman watching Musk and Trump fight it out on the tl knowing no one can stop him now [image] Rohit / @krishnanrohit : Elon made a strategic mistake with Doge [image] Max Woolf / @minimaxir : This will unironically be a tweet for the history books and future history students will be very very confused. Max Woolf / @minimaxir : After today, *someone* is definitely going to edit Grok's system prompt again Mike Drucker / @mikedrucker : “I was happy to work with a man I knew was pedophile until he cut my EV credit” is such a hilarious rich person sentiment [image] Jeff Stein / @jstein_wapo : Lol did the White House take down the transcript of the Musk-Trump interview on Hannity https://www.whitehouse.gov/?p= 1451 Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer : Is Elon being a good fiduciary to Tesla and SpaceX? Certainly the sugar high traffic on X has got to be glorious @hasanthehun : it was inevitable that elon and trump would fight, i never thought he'd accuse trump of being a pedophile while crashing the tesla stock in spectacular fashion. this country is run by fucking babies. Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer : For being a business genius you'd think there would be more strategy behind the fight. Where is he going to have to escalate from here Sam Biddle / @samfbiddle : (I find this very unlikely given how embedded Starlink is and the lack of alternatives) Charles Arthur / @charlesarthur : US announces release of huge new stocks of schadenfreude [image] Peter Kafka / @pkafka : Imagine being a tech CEO who bent the knee who isn't Elon Musk right now. Would you want a do-over? Robert Scoble / @scobleizer : I am on team Musk. Just for the record. Richard Hanania / @richardhanania : Trump on Musk: “You saw a man who was very happy...even with a black eye. I said 'Do you want a little makeup? We'll get you a little makeup'. But he said 'no, I don't think so,' which is interesting.” Is he implying that he had him roughed up? [video] Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias : I feel like Jeffies and Schumer should give Elon Musk a call and tell him about the Democratic Party's longstanding interest in electric cars, solar panels, space exploration, and balanced deficit reduction. James Surowiecki / @jamessurowiecki : Last week, when Trump and Musk had their press conference together, Trump was asked about Elon's shiner, and said, “I didn't notice it.” This week, Trump says that actually he had offered Musk a little makeup to cover it up. He just lies about everything, no matter how trivial. Richard Hanania / @richardhanania : Elon, Few people were as excited as I was when you started dipping your toes into the political waters. For years, I saw a paradox in that most of the smartest people were on the left, while conservative ideas like free speech, economic liberty, coming down hard on criminals, and treating people as individuals rather than members of groups were simply correct. Now, here was the most successful entrepreneur of our lifetime openly joining the conservative movement. I was the first prominent figure to use the term “Tech Right” in a June 2023 article, and saw you as the herald of a new era that could turn the country around. We had mutual friends who gave me assurances about your courage and sincerity, and I put my faith in what they told me. Unfortunately, it has not worked out as I wished, and it seems that you are now looking for answers. DOGE came in making radical promises about having the potential to save trillions of dollars, primarily by firing federal workers and targeting waste, fraud, and abuse. … Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : This is one of the best days on Twitter in years Rat King / @mikeisaac : you have to appreciate this slow-motion divorce playing out over tweets and press conferences Rat King / @mikeisaac : is that good [image] Rat King / @mikeisaac : calling it now: musk becomes an abundance guy Congressman Greg Casar / @repcasar : Trump is still in the pocket of corrupt billionaires. Fight Trump's billionaire tax cuts. Musk is still a corrupt billionaire. Fight Musk's corruption. The GOP budget will still kick millions off their health care. Fight to kill the bill. Christina Warren / @film_girl : OH. MY. GOD. Rat King / @mikeisaac : holy fucken shit man Rat King / @mikeisaac : i regret to report twitter still has the juice Timothy B. Lee / @binarybits : Did Elon think things could turn out some other way? Because this is more or less what happened to every prominent person who joined the first Trump administration. Sheel Mohnot / @pitdesi : Trump coin down 10%, DJT down 7.25%, TSLA down 17% [image] Tracy Alloway / @tracyalloway : The Trump-Musk breakup isn't finalized until Pete Davidson enters the picture somehow. @jason : me in the group chat RN [image] Joe Weisenthal / @thestalwart : $TSLA down over 17.5% [image] @pourmecoffee : ngl, I kinda wanna try ketamine now @bocxtop : elon's ketamine plug needs to put in work today, we can have him admit election interference and put this app up for sale by tonight if bro locks in Dan Primack / @danprimack : This cannot be a comfortable day for David Sacks. On the other hand, it's just the best day for Sam Altman. Sheel Mohnot / @pitdesi : Spent the afternoon at the Inclusive Abundance board meeting in DC, brainstorming how to move the tech right away from scarcity-driven MAGA and toward an abundance mindset rooted in progress, innovation, and building. Stepped out, checked Twitter, and... our work is done? LinkedIn: Lora Kolodny : Tesla CEO Elon Musk was supposed to be “focused” on Tesla after his DOGE special government employee period ended. … Forums: r/politics : Musk calls for Trump's impeachment r/Full_news : Trump, White House aides signal a possible détente with Musk r/Foodforthought : Musk calls for Trump's impeachment r/politicsinthewild : Trump, White House aides signal a possible détente with Musk r/Staiy : Steve Bannon says he is advising Trump to launch an investigation in Elon Musk's drug use and to arrest and deport him from the country immediately … r/politics : Trump, White House aides signal a possible détente with Musk r/TheBusinessMix : Trump says Elon Musk went ‘CRAZY,’ suggests cutting government contracts for his companies r/thebulwark : Steve Bannon says he is advising Trump to launch an investigation in Elon Musk's drug use and to arrest and deport him from the country immediately … r/moderatepolitics : Tesla loses $152 billion in market cap after Musk-Trump spat, biggest hit ever r/centrist : Musk calls for Trump's impeachment r/AskSocialists : How should socialists respond this rupture in the ruling class? r/technology : SpaceX says will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat r/thescoop : Elon Musk says SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat r/Fauxmoi : Steve Bannon says he is advising Trump to launch an investigation in Elon Musk's drug use and to arrest and deport him from the country immediately … r/stockbetz : Tesla loses $152 billion in market cap after Musk-Trump spat, biggest hit ever r/esa : Musk says SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat r/spaceflight : Musk says SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat r/AntiTrumpAlliance : Musk calls for Trump's impeachment r/Law_and_Politics : Musk calls for Trump's impeachment r/TheBusinessMix : Musk says SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat r/moderatepolitics : Musk calls for Trump's impeachment r/JoeRogan : NY Times: Steven Bannon wants Elon investigated, says he believes Elon is an illegal alien r/FoxBrain : Well, it seems the bromance has run its course r/Sino : Trump and Elon are having a pretend cat fight 😾 (Trump “threatened” to cancel contracts, Elon “threatened” to decommission dragon spacecraft, also made some Epstain accusation) r/inthenews : Musk says SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat r/space : Musk says SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat r/politics : Musk says SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat r/lonerbox : It's peak r/SpaceXLounge : Musk announces the decommissioning of the dragon following Trumps contract cancellations r/SpaceXMasterrace : Musk announces he is decommissioning dragon r/neutralnews : Musk says Trump is named in Epstein files r/inthenews : Musk claims Trump named in Jeffrey Epstein files r/politics : Musk claims Trump named in Jeffrey Epstein files r/PublicFreakout : Musk taking the gloves off and calling out the real reason the Epstein Files have not been released... r/TimDillon : I think we're in Emergency Podcast territory at this point r/teslastockholders : Live Updates: Trump threatens to cut Elon Musk government contracts as feud escalates r/LeftoversH3 : Elon Musk calls out Trump on Twitter r/allinpodofficial : Okay so how is Sacks gonna spin this? r/JoeRogan : Elon: “Trump is in the Epstein Files” r/LeopardsAteMyFace : Trump says Musk went ‘CRAZY,’ suggests cutting government contracts for his companies r/goodnews : Trump Threatens to Cut Elon Musk's Government Contracts as Feud Escalates r/RealTesla : Trump says Musk went ‘CRAZY,’ suggests cutting government contracts for his companies r/Fuckthealtright : The Elon Musk And Donald Trump Breakup Has Started r/Law_and_Politics : Musk admits he helped steal the election for Trump r/TrueReddit : The Elon Musk and Donald Trump Breakup Has Started r/inthenews : The Elon Musk and Donald Trump Breakup Has Started r/fednews : The Elon Musk and Donald Trump Breakup Has Started r/neoliberal : Trump and Musk Attack Each Other in Remarkable Break r/centrist : Trump and Musk take their feud public r/somethingiswrong2024 : Musk: “Without me, Trump would have lost the election”