The U.S. President lamented the spectacular collapse of his alliance with Elon Musk, framing the tech billionaire’s new political party as a personal betrayal from a man he recently supported.
The friendship that once saw Elon Musk serve in the White House is officially and explosively over. In a lengthy and personal tirade posted to Truth Social on Sunday, President Donald Trump unloaded on his former ally, expressing his profound disappointment and casting Musk as an ungrateful and confused figure who has gone “completely ‘off the rails.’”
The catalyst for the public condemnation was Musk’s launch of “The America Party,” a third-party movement aimed at disrupting the two-party system. For Trump, this was not a political calculation but a personal slight from a man he felt he had supported, even when he found his actions baffling.
“I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely ‘off the rails,’ essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks,” Trump wrote, framing the situation as a tragic downfall rather than a simple policy disagreement. The post reads like a lament for a broken friendship, detailing a relationship that Trump suggests was always marked by his own confusion over Musk’s motives.
The backdrop for this political divorce was the passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” Trump’s signature domestic policy legislation.
