Relationship between Donald Trump and Elon Musk fell apart over a disagreement on the President's budget bill.

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The months-long union between the world’s richest man and the commander-in-chief of its most potent military was intense and fruitful, a surprisingly bromantic marriage of money and power.

“I love the President,” Elon Musk, who embraced being called the “first buddy,” said of Donald Trump in February.