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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Mike Bedigan and Josh Marcus

Trump-Musk goes nuclear: President and Tesla mogul trade Epstein barbs and billion-dollar threats as friendship implodes

The high profile bromance between Donald Trump and Elon Musk finally imploded on Thursday, with the president claiming the world’s richest man had gone “CRAZY” and threatening to terminate his multi-billion dollar government contracts.

“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!“ the president wrote.

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