
North American correspondent
What happens if the richest person and the most powerful politician fights a knock -down drag out?
The world is recognizing -and it is not a pretty picture. Donald Trump and Elon Musk have two largest megaphones, and now they have turned to each other because they have popped out of horse war.
Trump has gained life with the federal government by threatening MUSK’s extensive business.
Trump said on his social media website, “The easiest way to save budget and billions of dollars is to terminate Elon’s government subsidies and contracts.”
If Trump turns the government’s machine for Musk, the billionaire will be painful. Tesla’s share price increased 14% on Thursday.
But it is not a one -way distance. Since then, MUSK opposes Trump’s impeachment, denture to cut funds for his companies, and that the United States is accelerating the dismantling of the dragon ship, which relies on US astronauts and supplies to the international space station.
Musk holds infinite resources, including supporting the Republican challengers to the Republican challengers in next year’s election and preliminary elections. And late on Thursday afternoon, he said he was dropping “really big bombs.”
His reporter, Karoline Leavitt, provided only a subtle push of musk’s claims and accusations.
“This is an unfortunate episode of Elon, and he is dissatisfied with a big beautiful bill because he does not include the policy he wants,” she said.
Musk cannot win in the fight against the Trump government, but it can accurately priced the high political and personal prices of Trump and Republicans.
Trump probably knew this. At the White House police, he avoided his opinion about Musk during the public and posted a message about truth socialism, saying, “I did not oppose him,” but posted a message about truth socialism that said he had quit government services a few months ago. Then he was pivot to raise the “big and beautiful” tax and expenditure bills.
But it is difficult to walk easily after the heat of Thursday.
Insult and threat
This disagreement started at a boiling place last week and started a bubble ring on Wednesday and completely boiled in an oval office on Thursday afternoon. Today’s visitors, Friedrich Merz, sounded like a lover who spurred because the new German Prime Minister Friedrich Merz was sitting in an awkward silence.
He was surprised by Musk’s criticism of his legislation. He opposed the concept that he would have lost his presidential election last year. And he said Musk is changing his song because Tesla, an automobile company, will be hurt by the Republican’s promotion to end the electric vehicle tax deduction.
Musk was quickly taken to his social media site X and received a response from 220 million followers “Whatever”. He did not care about automobile subsidies, wanted to reduce national debt, and he says it is an existential threat to the state. He insisted that the Democratic Party would have dominated without his help in last year’s election. “I have that will,” he told Trump.
The billionaire began a series of special attacks all afternoon and the discord was in earnest.
Musk and Trump peaked at the Trump administration’s budget at the peak at the billionaire with the core of the slash authorities and formed a strong but unlikely alliance. Musk’s DOGE has become one of Trump’s first 100 -day story, closing the entire institution and dismissing thousands of civil servants.
But it didn’t take so long for the two out size to be missed.
For a while, it seemed as if the prediction was out of the mark. Trump was in Musk even when the latter was inadequate as he suffered from administrative officials and became responsible for many major elections earlier this year.
Whenever a break appears, the musk will pop out with Mar-A-Lago on the elliptical office, cabinet room or the president’s Air Force 1 airplane.
At the end of the 130 days of MUSK as a “special official” last week, the two had a stupid oval office with a golden key in the White House and suggested that MUSK could return someday.
It is safe to say that all invitations are withdrawn and the lock has been changed.
Trump said on Thursday that “Elon and I have a big relationship.”
On Wednesday night, there was an effort to change the topic in Musk’s criticism, with the ban on a new trip to Harvard, and the conspiracy of former President Joe Biden. Allies of the White House and Parliament seemed to be careful not to tame him after his early commentary.
Then Trump said.
‘Zero Sum Game’
The problem is now where the dispute goes next. Congress’s Republican members, along with the MUSK, became more difficult to maintain members after Trump’s bill, making it more difficult to provide rhetorical and fiscal air covers to those who break the class.
Trump has already threatened Musk’s government contracts, but he was able to bring AIM MUSK’s remaining provincial allies from the administration or reopen the BIDEN era investigation into MUSK’s business transactions.
Everything at this point is on the table.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party is curious about how to respond to the side job. Few people are willing to welcome Musk, a former donor. But there are also old proverbs that the enemy is a friend.
Democratic strategist Liam Kerr said, “It’s a zero -sum game.
At least the Democratic Party is pleased to go back and give two men hitting. And until they give up this fight, DIN will drown everything else in American politics.
But don’t expect this spat to end soon.
“Trump is the president and left 3.5 years.” Musk wrote on X. But I will take more than 40 years. “