After a flurry of posts from Elon Musk, US President Donald Trump has now taken to social media as well.
He wrote two posts on his own platform, Truth Social:
"Elon was wearing thin, I asked him to leave, I took away his EV mandate that forced everyone to buy electric cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!" Trump writes.
He then says that the "easiest way to save money" in his signature tax bill is to "terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts".
From first buddies to first foes?
From first buddies to now enemies?
The Trump-Musk alliance has been fracturing at a rapid pace in public ever since the tech billionaire left his temporary government post last week.
At first it seemed to have ended all very nicely with a special goodbye in the oval office - Musk even got a golden key.
He later said he felt he couldn’t criticise the administration, but now he’s been firing shots left, right and centre - laying into Trump’s tax policy bill and urging lawmakers to ‘kill the bill.’
Trump said he was disappointed, to which Musk has hit back hard in a way it's really going to hurt - suggesting his big donation won Trump the election.
Trump’s administration has often been compared to Julius Caesar – the Roman emperor with unrestrained power and excess.
Put the world’s most powerful man and the world’s richest man together – perhaps they were always destined to collide. After all there can't be two Caesars at the same time.
