
- Support for Musk among Americans quickly soured in the initial weeks of the Trump administration as he fed USAID “to the woodchipper”, helped strip cancer research that helps kids and threatened every federal worker with termination. But it was his role in Wisconsin’s state supreme court race that ultimately marked the beginning of the end of this marriage of convenience.
It was perhaps the most widely predicted break-up in American political history. The bromance between Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, and President Donald Trump, the world’s most powerful, appears to have run its course.