The Donald Trump-Elon Musk alliance is over, with the president threatening he could terminate the tech billionaire’s many government contracts during a dizzying back-and-forth that included Musk accusing Trump of “ingratitude” and contending he had been “replaced by a body double.”
Tensions between the former unlikely partners boiled over around midday Thursday, when Trump — sitting alongside German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office — was asked about Musk’s harsh words for Republicans’ sprawling budget reconciliation measure.
Trump said he was “very disappointed” with Musk’s public denouncements of the “big, beautiful bill.”
