The public split between President Donald Trump and former White House adviser Elon Musk continued this week, as the pair exchanged barbed insults after the tech billionaire recently announced his departure from the administration and criticized the president's megabill.
Musk criticized Trump’s so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" on May 27 in interviews, prompting a back-and-forth that devolved into insults Thursday, June 5, in a news conference and on social media.
"Elon and I had a great relationship," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office June 5. "I don't know if we will anymore."
Musk quickly fired back, saying Trump wouldn't have won a second term and Republicans would have fared worse in elections in both chambers of the U.S. Congress were it not for his efforts on the 2024 campaign trail, where he poured a quarter of a million dollars into Trump's campaign.
"Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate," Musk said in a post on X, the social media company he owns. "Such gratitude."
