Well, it finally happened. The town wasn’t big enough for the two towering egos of billionaires Elon Musk and President Donald Trump.
Musk takes his own social media platform X to the jab with Trump, and Trump is fighting back against the truthful social and Fox news.
A few days after Musk resigned from Lead Dozi, after Musk repeatedly paraded Trump’s “Big Beautiful Building,” followed by repeated light paradises of spending packages passed in May. Musk calls the bill “disgusting hatred,” saying it will significantly increase the federal budget deficit over the next decade, up to $3.8 trillion in additional debt, due to increased defense spending, immigration enforcement measures and tax cuts.
In a way, I feel the silence nature of this screaming match is poetic. It highlights how strong social media and loyal fanbase have become by exposing the rifts of Musk and Trump’s political alliance, shaping policy narratives and shaking voter awareness.
Trump does what he frequently does, trying to trust his potential rivals. For Musk, it’s more like gambling. Tesla has already been hit with his political epic standout and his cheating with the Trump administration. The same could further damage his business. Or, he can cement his status as an anti-realization voice. This is a technical mogul that doesn’t require traditional power structures to influence the American political landscape.
In a post from X, Musk proposes to free politicians who supported Trump’s budget bill in the middle of 2026. Pinned at the top of his X account is a poll asking whether it’s “time to create a new political party in America, which actually represents 80% as a central figure.” Two hours after the post, 82.3% of nearly 1 million voters said yes.
Musk said a few weeks ago he was a step away from politics to focus on his business. And it is those businesses that Trump appears to be eager to punish. True socially, Trump “ccused masks of becoming ‘crazy’. Because the administration took away his EV mission, saying, “I knew that he was forced to buy an electric vehicle that no one wanted (he was trying to do it).”
Here, Trump mentions EV tax credits under former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. There was no mandate for anyone to buy an EV. Trump’s spending bill will close tax credits by the end of this year.
In X, Musk refuted the claim and said he would not look to the bill before passing by the house.
Trump also said Musk exploded after Musk refused to “know very well to run NASA” because he didn’t think the president was “appropriate.” He suggested that “billions and billions of dollars,” the easiest way to save money on a federal budget, is “to terminate Elon’s government subsidies and contracts.”
The mask business has been awarded at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits over the next 20 years, with nearly two-thirds of its pledge over the past five years, according to a February report by The Washington Post.
Axios reported that some of Musk’s complaints about Trump’s spending bills on Wednesday and the entire administration were unable to win treatment in favor of his venture. Not by chance, Musk spent more than $260 million to elect Trump.
As the battle between Musk and Trump develops, it is beginning to become personal.
“Without me, Trump would lose the election, Dems would take control of the House and Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate,” Musk posted in response to a video of Trump throwing the shade with a mask on Fox News. “That kind of content.”
A few hours later, Musk decides to drop a “really big bomb.”
“(Donald Trump) is in Epstein’s file,” Musk wrote X:
Many politicians, including Republican senators, have called on Trump to release government files about Jeffrey Epstein, a financier who was involved in the child sexual abuse ring and later committed suicide.
Musk said his aerospace company SpaceX will be “quickly” abolition of the Dragon Spaceship in response to Trump’s threat of canceling contracts awarded to the billionaire company. (NASA uses dragons for several missions.) And in a response to X’s post about whether or not to use a trump each, Musk replied “Yes.”