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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Mike Bedigan and Isabel Keane

A bromance ends: Trump-Musk friendship goes from meteoric rise to epic meltdown in under a year

The rapid and intense bromance between two of the world’s most powerful men – Donald Trump and Elon Musk – grew fast during the election season. It came to a crashing halt less than six months after Trump’s return to the White House.

“Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate,” Musk wrote on X in the tweet that seemingly killed the friendship.

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