The once-strong Trump-Musk relationship deteriorates amid disputes over tax legislation and credit for the 2024 presidential election victory.
As the once-strong alliance between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk rapidly disintegrates, the two titans are not only trading fire over the president’s « big, beautiful » tax cuts and spending bill.
Trump and Musk, who spent the first four months of the president’s second administration as a special White House advisor steering the recently created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), are also blasting each other over which one of them should get the credit for Trump’s decisive 2024 election victory.
The president, speaking with reporters Thursday, argued, « I think I would have won » even without Musk’s help on the campaign trail last year.
Musk, the world’s richest person and the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, went all in for Trump last summer and autumn.
He endorsed the GOP presidential nominee in July right after the assassination attempt against Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Musk became the top donor of the 2024 election cycle, dishing out nearly $300 million in support of Trump’s bid through America PAC, a Trump-aligned super PAC.
