Social media exploded with sizzling takes from all around the political spectrum Thursday amid the very public and acrimonious break up between President Trump and Elon Musk.
The feud between one of many world’s strongest leaders and the world’s wealthiest man gave the impression to be simmering even earlier than Musk left the White Home final week after briefly serving in Trump’s Division of Authorities Effectivity.
The billionaire entrepreneur lastly snapped on Tuesday when Republicans proposed a invoice he felt undermined his efforts to trim federal spending. He later accused Trump of not appreciating the almost $300 million he spent final 12 months to place the president and his acolytes again in energy.
“Such ingratitude,” Musk posted on social media Thursday. “Without me, Trump would have lost the election.”
In response, the president dismissively accused Musk of getting “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and indicated he could eliminate a few of the businessman’s profitable authorities contracts.
Hours later, Musk dropped “the really big bomb,” accusing President Trump of being within the “Epstein files,” referring to a set of paperwork associated to Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged intercourse trafficking crimes and his high-status associates.
Tech reporter Kara Swisher, who virtually wrote the ebook on Elon Musk, gloated on Bluesky that she noticed this coming.
“Called it — there can be only one,” the “Burn Book” writer captioned a submit linking to a November CNN story through which she predicted the polarizing billionaires wouldn’t be capable to co-exist eternally.
“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart has in current weeks goaded Musk to return on his present after the Tesla CEO mentioned he would after which backed out. Stewart additionally questioned if the black eye Musk was seen with final Friday actually got here from roughhousing together with his 5-year-old son, as Musk claimed it did.
On Thursday, Stewart puzzled if Trump’s determination to make Musk a White Home adviser with almost limitless entry to authorities computer systems and delicate information may change into problematic afterward.
“Good thing Trump didn’t willfully hand over the entirety of our country’s operating system to Elon and his…oops,” Stewart sarcastically wrote on X, the social platform owned by Musk.
Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones expressed concern that Trump and Musk, who largely share his right-wing views, spent the day attacking each other.
“God Help Us ALL,” Jones wrote on X.
“Remember this morning when the big story was Dems piling on Karine Jean-Pierre?” Kelly requested on-line.
