When Elon Musk spectacularly torched his relationship with Donald Trump, it seemed the Big, Beautiful Bill was to blame.
But privately his issues with the president ran deeper than concerns over the ballooning public debt.
He was pushed to the brink when his NASA nominee, billionaire payments entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, was axed by Trump in a late-night Truth Social post.
Until then, Musk's criticisms of the president had been confined to relatively measured arguments against the deficit.
On Tuesday, he branded the bill a 'disgusting abomination.' Then he went nuclear on Thursday, invoking the Epstein files and calling for Trump's impeachment.
