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BREAKING: BANNON CALLS ON TRUMP TO “SEIZE” SPACE X TONIGHT.
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I said earlier that Elon better release those files before ICE agents arrive at his doorsteps.
Lisa Kim
By morning Elon will provide details on how he helped rig the election and Trump will issue an EO calling for Elon's deportation
I said earlier that Elon better release those files before ICE agents arrive at his doorsteps.
Lisa Kim
By morning Elon will provide details on how he helped rig the election and Trump will issue an EO calling for Elon's deportation
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Cage fight...in diapers!!!!
Cage fight...in diapers!!!!
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BREAKING: Elon goes for the JUGULAR against Trump
Didn’t realize this was a prophecy
'Elon is going to get decimated:' How Trump's feud with the world's richest man might end
Josh Meyer, USA TODAY
Updated Fri, June 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM EDT
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WASHINGTON — If history is any guide, and there is a lot of history, the explosive new falling out between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk is not going to end well for the former White House advisor and world’s richest man.
The political battlefield is littered with the scorched remains of some of Trump’s previous allies who picked a fight with him or were on the receiving end of one.
Lawyer Michael Cohen. Political advisor Steve Bannon. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. John Bolton, John Kelly and Chris Christie, to name just a few.
“If what happened to me is any indication of how they handle these matters, then Elon is going to get decimated,” said Cohen, the former long-term Trump lawyer and fixer who once said he’d “take a bullet” for his boss. Musk, he said, "just doesn't understand how to fight this type of political guerilla warfare."
“They're going to take his money, they're going to shutter his businesses and they're going to either incarcerate or deport him,” Cohen said of what he thinks Musk will suffer at the hands of Trump and his administration. “He's probably got the White House working overtime already, as we speak, figuring out how to close his whole damn thing down.”
Cohen had perhaps the most spectacular blow up, until now, with Trump. He served time in prison after Trump threw him under the bus by denying any knowledge of pre-election payments Cohen made to a porn actress to keep her alleged tryst with Trump quiet before the 2016 election.
More: President Trump threatens Elon Musk's billions in government contracts as alliance craters
Cohen felt so betrayed by Trump that he titled his memoir “Disloyal,” but the Trump administration tried to block its publication. Cohen ultimately fought back, becoming a star witness for the government in the state “hush money” case and helped get Trump convicted by a Manhattan jury.
More: Impeachment? Deportation? Crazy? 6 takeaways from the wild feud between Trump and Elon Musk
Some suffered similar legal attacks and other slings and arrows, including Trump taunts and his trademark nasty nicknames. Trump vilified others, casting them into the political wilderness with his MAGA base.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk greets U.S. President Donald Trump as they attend the NCAA men's wrestling championships in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., March 22, 2025.
When Sessions recused himself from the Justice Department’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Trump savaged him, calling his appointment a “mistake” and lobbing other epithets.
Sessions resigned under pressure in 2018. When he tried to resurrect his political career by running for his old Senate seat in Alabama, Trump endorsed his opponent, who won the GOP primary.
After firing Tillerson, Trump called the former ExxonMobil chief lazy and “dumb as a rock.” Trump still taunts Christie, an early supporter and 2016 transition chief, especially about his weight.
Trump also had a falling out with Bannon, who was instrumental in delivering his presidential victory in 2016 and then joined the White House as special advisor.
“Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency,” Trump said in 2018, a year after Bannon’s ouster from the White House. “When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.”
Ambassador John Bolton mimics photos of President Donald Trump holding a Bible. John Bolton
Trump’s Justice Department even indicted Bannon in 2020 for fraud, though the President pardoned him before leaving office.
One of Trump’s biggest feuds was with Bolton, whom he fired as his national security advisor in 2019.
Trump used every means possible to prevent his book, “The Room Where it Happened,” from being published, Bolton told USA TODAY on Thursday. That included having the U.S. government sue his publisher on the false premise that Bolton violated a nondisclosure agreement and was leaking classified information, Bolton said.
Bolton said Musk is unlike most others who have crossed swords with Trump in that he has unlimited amounts of money and control of a powerful social media platform in X to help shape the narrative. Musk also has billions in government contracts that even a vindictive Trump will have a hard time killing, as he threatened to do on Thursday, without significant legal challenges.
Even so, Bolton said, "It's going to end up like most mud fights do, with both of them worse off. The question is how much worse the country is going to be off."
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Why the Trump-Musk feud might not end well for the world's richest man
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Diana Glebova
WASHINGTON — President Trump is planning on parting ways with all traces of Elon Musk — including the Tesla he bought at full price on March 11.
The president is looking to now sell or give away his red Tesla, a White House official confirmed to The Post.
President Trump and Elon Musk speak to the press as they sit in a Tesla that the president bought, on the South Portico of the White House on March 11, 2025. AFP via Getty Images
The vehicle is currently parked in the White House parking lot and was intended for staff use.
Trump made a big show of buying the Tesla weeks ago to support Musk, who was suffering from nation-wide attacks on Tesla vehicles and buildings.
Trump wants to get rid of the Tesla he bought to show support for Elon Musk, White House says
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Diana Glebova
WASHINGTON — President Trump is planning on parting ways with all traces of Elon Musk — including the Tesla he bought at full price on March 11.
The president is looking to now sell or give away his red Tesla, a White House official confirmed to The Post.
The vehicle is currently parked in the White House parking lot and was intended for staff use.
Trump made a big show of buying the Tesla weeks ago to support Musk, who was suffering from nation-wide attacks on Tesla vehicles and buildings.
Trump tells ABC Musk 'lost his mind'; 'not particularly' interested in talking to him
He spoke with ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl.ByJonathan Karl
June 6, 2025, 9:08 AM
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Trump speaks out on war of words with MuskABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jon Karl breaks down the public falling out between billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump.
In a phone interview Friday morning, hours after his blistering exchange with Elon Musk, President Donald Trump sounded remarkably unconcerned about their feud, as if it weren't even the most interesting thing that happened Thursday.
Speaking on a phone call Friday morning shortly before 7 a.m., ABC News asked him about reports he had a call scheduled with Musk for later in the day.
"You mean the man who has lost his mind?" he asked, saying he was "not particularly" interested in talking to him right now.
He said Musk wants to talk to him, but he's not ready to talk to Musk.
President Donald Trump attends a meeting with the Fraternal Order of Police in the State Dinning Room of the White House, June 5, 2025, in Washington.
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Trump then talked for a couple of minutes about other things -- referring to inflation (down), foreign investment (up) and his plans for a visit to China (huge).
People close to Trump have described him as more sad than angry at Musk. One adviser who was with Trump on Thursday night said he seemed "bummed" about the breakup. And that's the way he sounded on Friday morning.
MORE: Trump Musk feud explodes with claim president is in Epstein files
Trump is considering either giving away or selling the red Tesla he purchased to support Musk, a senior administration official told ABC News' Rachel Scott Friday morning. The Tesla was parked just on West Executive Avenue on Thursday. Trump made a show of checking out Tesla models at the White House in March as Musk's company took a hit as he arrived in Washington.
President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speak to reporters as they sit in a red Model S Tesla vehicle on the South Lawn of the White House, March 11, 2025, in Washington.
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The war of words on Thursday, stemming from Musk's criticism of Trump's signature tax and immigration bill, had Musk suggesting Trump would have lost the 2024 election without him, backing calls for Trump's impeachment and even claiming Trump was "in" the Epstein files regarding the investigation into the accused sex trafficker.
"That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!" Musk posted.
Trump, in turn, had said Musk had gone "CRAZY" and suggested terminating Musk's government contracts and subsidies.
Vice President JD Vance expressed his support for Trump amid the public dispute in a brief post to X -- albeit hours after the back-and-forth between Trump and Musk began. The post didn't directly weigh in on Musk's attacks or criticize the Tesla billionaire, with whom Vance has his own history that predates his time as Trump's running mate and vice president.
"President Trump has done more than anyone in my lifetime to earn the trust of the movement he leads. I am proud to stand beside him," Vance wrote on social media.
Vance still hadn't directly responded to Musk's accusations against Trump when he posted again on Friday morning.
"There are many lies the corporate media tells about President Trump. One of the most glaring is that he's impulsive or short-tempered. Anyone who has seen him operate under pressure knows that's ridiculous," Vance wrote, focusing his fury on the media.
The White House called the public feud between Trump and Elon Musk "an unfortunate episode from Elon, who doesn't like the One Big Beautiful Bill because it doesn't include his policies."
"The President is focused on passing this historic piece of legislation and making our country great again," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, June 5, 2025, in Washington and Elon Musk attends a news conference in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 30, 2025.
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Just hours after accusing Trump, without evidence, of appearing in the Epstein files, Musk showed some signs of trying to soften his tone -- even appearing to agree with a post on X calling for the two to "make peace."
The first sign Musk was starting to walk things back came thanks to an account with just over 141 followers on X who suggested to "cool off" and "take a step back."
The post from the seemingly random user led Musk to reverse his threat to decommission the spacecraft used to transport astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station, a threat Musk had made just hours earlier.
"Good advice," Musk responded to the user. "Ok, we won't decommission Dragon."
ABC News' Will Steakin and Lalee Ibssa contributed to this report.
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Josh Christenson
Published June 7, 2025, 1:19 p.m. ET
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WASHINGTON — President Trump warned Saturday that his former ally Elon Musk will face “very serious consequences” if he starts bankrolling Democratic candidates for office after their nasty public split over a Republican spending bill working its way through Congress.
“If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC News’ Kristin Welker in an interview.
“He’ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that,” the president added.
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Musk and Trump have been feuding after the Tesla CEO spoke out on the president’s “big beautiful” bill.AP
“Is there anything else you just want people to know about the status,” Welker asked.
“No, not at all. We’re doing great,” Trump replied. “The bill is great. It looks like we’re going to get it passed. Looks strongly like we’re going to get it passed.”
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Musk was part of cabinet meetings during the first few months of Trump’s second term.Molly Riley/White House / SWNS
Musk knocked Trump during a multi-day X tirade over the debt increases contained in the “big beautiful bill” earlier this week and said without his hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions, the president would never have been re-elected in 2024.
He also claimed credit for delivering the GOP a 53-47 majority in the Senate — and holding onto its majority in the House.
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Trump has hit back at Musk’s comments in the ongoing feud.ZUMAPRESS.com
The Tesla and SpaceX billionaire contributed more than a quarter of a billion dollars to Republican candidates in the 2024 cycle, federal campaign filings show.
Trump threatens Elon Musk with ‘very serious consequences’ if he bankrolls Democrats in future elections
ByJosh Christenson
Published June 7, 2025, 1:19 p.m. ET
I transformed my friend's apartment into an urban oasis for about $2,500 – here's how
WASHINGTON — President Trump warned Saturday that his former ally Elon Musk will face “very serious consequences” if he starts bankrolling Democratic candidates for office after their nasty public split over a Republican spending bill working its way through Congress.
“If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC News’ Kristin Welker in an interview.
“He’ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that,” the president added.
3Musk and Trump have been feuding after the Tesla CEO spoke out on the president’s “big beautiful” bill.AP
“Is there anything else you just want people to know about the status,” Welker asked.
“No, not at all. We’re doing great,” Trump replied. “The bill is great. It looks like we’re going to get it passed. Looks strongly like we’re going to get it passed.”
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3Musk was part of cabinet meetings during the first few months of Trump’s second term.Molly Riley/White House / SWNS
Musk knocked Trump during a multi-day X tirade over the debt increases contained in the “big beautiful bill” earlier this week and said without his hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions, the president would never have been re-elected in 2024.
Here is the latest on Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s feud
- Elon Musk drops ‘really big bomb,’ accuses Trump of being in Epstein files as public brawl escalates
- Trump sounds off on Elon Musk after billionaire blasted prez’s ‘big beautiful bill’
- President threatens to cut ‘Billions and Billions of Dollars’ in federal funding for Elon Musk’s companies as feud goes nuclear
- Trump reveals his true feelings about Elon Musk feud to The Post after shunning call with billionaire
- White House staffer went on a revenge tour against Elon Musk, fanning flames with Trump — while bragging about Tesla stock drop
He also claimed credit for delivering the GOP a 53-47 majority in the Senate — and holding onto its majority in the House.
3Trump has hit back at Musk’s comments in the ongoing feud.ZUMAPRESS.com
The Tesla and SpaceX billionaire contributed more than a quarter of a billion dollars to Republican candidates in the 2024 cycle, federal campaign filings show.
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Gabrielle Fahmy
Published June 7, 2025, 8:02 a.m. ET
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She had her popcorn ready.
A smug Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a snarky six-word comment for broken-up bros President Trump and former “First Buddy” Elon Musk.
“Oh man . . . the girls are fighting, aren’t they?” the socialist lawmaker gloated in a story she shared to her 9.2 million Instagram followers Friday.
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AOC gloated as she commented on the bromance beak-up.instagram/aoc
The gleeful remark, which came outside the US Capitol, was in response to a journalist asking the New York congresswoman for her two cents on the highly public spat.
AOC, who previously blasted the once-burgeoning bromance and called Musk “one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met,” went on to say, “I told you so.”
“This was something that was a long time coming. . . . These two huge egos were not long for being together in this world as friends,” she mocked.
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Big, beautiful break up: President Trump and former “First Buddy” Elon Musk are no longer an item.AFP via Getty Images
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The two men engaged in a public spat this week, trading insults on their respective platforms.Getty Images
“We’ll see what the impacts of it are legislatively.”
AOC previously slammed Trump’s big beautiful bill — which is at the center of the feud between the former BFFs.
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The social media tiff escalated quite quickly this week, after Musk called Trump’s budget bill a “pork-filled . . . abomination,” and the president accused the Tesla CEO of having “lost his mind.”
AOC mocks Trump-Musk break-up with snarky six-word response: ‘The girls are fighting, aren’t they?’
ByGabrielle Fahmy
Published June 7, 2025, 8:02 a.m. ET
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Today's Video Headlines
She had her popcorn ready.
A smug Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a snarky six-word comment for broken-up bros President Trump and former “First Buddy” Elon Musk.
“Oh man . . . the girls are fighting, aren’t they?” the socialist lawmaker gloated in a story she shared to her 9.2 million Instagram followers Friday.
3AOC gloated as she commented on the bromance beak-up.instagram/aoc
The gleeful remark, which came outside the US Capitol, was in response to a journalist asking the New York congresswoman for her two cents on the highly public spat.
AOC, who previously blasted the once-burgeoning bromance and called Musk “one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met,” went on to say, “I told you so.”
“This was something that was a long time coming. . . . These two huge egos were not long for being together in this world as friends,” she mocked.
3Big, beautiful break up: President Trump and former “First Buddy” Elon Musk are no longer an item.AFP via Getty Images
3The two men engaged in a public spat this week, trading insults on their respective platforms.Getty Images
“We’ll see what the impacts of it are legislatively.”
AOC previously slammed Trump’s big beautiful bill — which is at the center of the feud between the former BFFs.
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The social media tiff escalated quite quickly this week, after Musk called Trump’s budget bill a “pork-filled . . . abomination,” and the president accused the Tesla CEO of having “lost his mind.”
Whoopi Goldberg Shocks ‘The View’ Into Silence By Claiming Trump And Musk’s Feud Is “Fake”: “I Don’t Believe Anything They Say Anymore”
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Goldberg let her co-hosts weigh in on the topic before she shared her final thoughts. After her co-hosts gloated over Trump and Musk’s falling out and expressed their disbelief at watching the two figures take shots at each other on social media, Goldberg announced, “I love that you all bought into it. I do believe it’s fake, it’s too strategic.”
Her statement seemed to shock her co-hosts, who all fell silent after a rather spirited debate about the feud.
But Alyssa Farah Griffin wasn’t so sure. “It’s not fake. You’re giving them too much credit,” she said.
“I just feel like, oh yeah, now suddenly everybody’s upset about stuff. I’m sorry, no, this is another distraction to keep us talking – not about the stuff we’re talking about, but the stuff they want us to,” Goldberg maintained. “They lie, they lie all the time.”
Ana Navarro also seemed to believe the feud was very real, as she called Musk and Trump “so legitimately crazy.”
Photo: ABC
Fake or not, Sunny Hostin seemed to find the entire debacle very amusing.
She was the first to sound off against President Trump and Musk during the discussion.
“I will tell you that the fact the big beautiful bromance is over was just very funny to me,” she said. “I mean, you have the president of the United States publicly squabbling with the richest man in the world on the social media sites that they own, fighting against each other.”
Hostin went on to say the feud was “so messy” to witness.
Elon Musk hints that explosive fall-out with Trump may be cooling off after prez wishes him well
ByRyan King
Published June 10, 2025
Updated June 10, 2025, 11:32 a.m. ET
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Trump slams Elon as ‘a man who has lost his mind’
Tech mogul Elon Musk signaled Monday that his white-hot public feud with President Trump may be starting to cool off.
“We had a great relationship and I wish him well — very well, actually,” Trump told reporters at the White House Monday in a clip reposted by X influencer ALX.
Musk responded by posting a heart emoji, signaling that the former “First Buddy” may no longer have hard feelings after his explosive falling-out with the president last week.
3Elon Musk has indicated he’s softening on President Trump after his public falling-out with him last week.AP
Tensions between the two men had slowly started to seep into the public eye before exploding last week. In late May, Musk taped an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning” in which he could barely mask his disdain for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is projected to increase the federal deficit by around $3 trillion.
Beginning on Tuesday of last week, Musk took it a step further, chastising the bill as an “outrageous, pork-filled” measure and a “disgusting abomination,” urging Republicans to “kill the bill.”
Then, on June 5, Musk went nuclear, taking credit for the president’s electoral victory last year and even accusing the White House of concealing the Jeffrey Epstein files to protect Trump — X posts he later deleted.
During the course of his outbursts, Musk also railed against Trump’s decision to yank the nomination of Jared Isaacman, a close ally of the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, to become the head of NASA.
Trump, 78, blasted Musk in response, saying he went “crazy,” “lost his mind” and mused about cutting off government contracts to the tech mogul’s companies. This led to Musk threatening to decommission the Dragon spacecraft, the government’s primary means of sending humans into orbit.
Musk, 53, later backpedaled on that threat.
3The tech baron had fumed at President Trump after his time as a special government employee came to an end.AP
While Trump has indicated he won’t rush to mend fences with Musk, the mogul has expressed admiration for the commander-in-chef.
At one point, Musk posted a screengrab of a Truth Social post in which Trump lashed out at California Democrats over the riots in Los Angeles.
“Governor Gavin Newscum [sic] and ‘Mayor’ [Karen] Bass should apologize to the people of Los Angeles for the absolutely horrible job that they’ve done, and this now includes the ongoing L.A. riots,” Trump wrote in the post that Musk shared.
3The explosive feud between the world’s richest man and the most powerful man in the world erupted last week.
In another re-post, Musk amplified a message from Vice President JD Vance vowing a crackdown by DC.
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“This moment calls for decisive leadership,” Vance declared. “The president will not tolerate rioting and violence.”
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