Donald Trump has accused Elon Musk of “losing his mind” as the dramatic breakdown between the US’s most powerful person and the world’s richest person escalated into a full-blown feud that could have seismic political and economic consequences.
In a series of phone calls to US media on Friday morning, Trump snapped back at Musk, after the tech mogul and Republican financier launched an extraordinary social media attack on the president the day before, which ended with him accusing Trump of being named in the so-called “Epstein files” – documents related to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
