Elon Musk has a lot of things: billionaires, Natals, aspiring gamers. He runs a huge company and dreams of colonizing Mars. But most importantly, Elon Musk is a poster. He is posting it when he disbanded in real time with President Donald Trump.
The resulting timeline – chaos, cats, inflammatory on the way, cats to the dissatisfaction of the world’s wealthiest people with the U.S. president – should be regarded as a historical artifact, a front-row seat that is a clear end to a distinctly consistent partnership.
Tensions between Musk and Trump have been building steadily, but they radiated the Open on Thursday. After Musk’s “big bill” to the president and a trillion-dollar repeated shots that would increase the deficit, Trump accused Musk of only caring about canceling EV credit, which helped Tesla and suggested their relationship wear out.
Then there are many posts by Musk on X. Musk launched 49 posts, reposting or replies, between 12:19 PM ET and 3:20 PM ET. Over a three-hour period, an average of one new relic is once every 3.5 minutes.
It started to be enough. “Anyway,” Musk posted to X at 12:19 ET. “Even without touching the oil and gas subsidies (very unfair!), the disgusting pork hills were abandoned in the bill. [sic] Big and beautiful. Everyone knows it! You either receive a huge and ugly bill or a slim and beautiful bill. Slim and beautiful is a way to go. ”
Less than half an hour later, after several harmless posts and responding to Trump’s video, he said he would have won Pennsylvania, and Musk had nuclear power regardless of Musk’s help. He posted: “Without me, Trump will lose the election, Dems will control the House, and Republicans will go 51-49 in the Senate.”
From there, Musk played the hit song: Bad Pun (“Kill Bill”). Multiple “cry” emojis. A worthless quiz. Compassionate forward. The past few hours have been a sprint for Musk’s post scripts, and it’s awesome for years to become the owner of X and one of its most loyal users.
Trump also released: “The easiest way to save money in our budget, multi-billion dollar budget, is to terminate Elon’s government subsidies and contracts,” he wrote in Musk’s collapse. “Elon ‘wears thin’.
Musk’s response was accusing Trump of being in Epstein’s archives. (At the time of writing, he is still following that thread.) He also claims that “@spacex will immediately retire its Dragon Spacecraft”, which will allow NASA to deprive its preferred shuttle of the space station.
“I don’t mind Elon’s opposition to me, but he should have done so a few months ago. It’s one of the greatest bills ever,” Trump wrote in Truth Society.
“It should be imploded, and JD Vance should replace him,” wrote the far-right poster Ian Miles Cheong. “Yes,” Musk replied.
There is no sign of slowing down the public quarrel between the world’s wealthiest people and their most powerful leaders. The consequences of the emergence may also be astronomy: Musk is worth hundreds of billions of dollars and proves he is happy to deploy it for his own political and personal purposes. Trump has the right to stifle Musk’s many companies from lucrative government contracts.
This is an unprecedented moment that seems likely to lead to unpredictable places. But no matter what twists and turns are taken, at least some guarantees they will happen in public.
