Donald Trump and Elon Musk, two of the most media-addled personalities of our time, are publicly torching their relationship by posting on the public social media networks they each respectively own. I have seen theories that this is kayfabe, and I don’t buy it. Trump and Musk have publicly shit-talked people, including each other, before turning around and working with them. But this is real; threats are being made. I’m just not sure how serious it is.
“Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will anymore.”
Let’s back up. Starting last week, Musk began making escalating angry remarks about the Big Beautiful Bill that eliminated the EV tax credits. Trump, unusually tactful, did not respond. That may have been because Musk has not yet donated $100 million he promised to a Trump-owned PAC. This morning, Trump said he was “very disappointed with Elon,” who “knew this bill better than anyone.”
“Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will anymore,” Trump added.
Trump had hardly finished speaking when Musk went on X, his social media network, to say “False, this bill was never shown to me even once and was passed in the dead of night so fast that alm …