Elon Musk is many things: billionaire, natalist, aspiring gamer. He runs gigantic companies and dreams of colonizing Mars . But above all, Elon Musk is a poster . And as his storied relationship with President Donald Trump dissolves in real time, by god, he is posting through it.
The resulting timeline—a chaotic, catty, incendiary voyage into the grievances of the world’s richest man with the president of the United States—should be enshrined as a historical artifact, a front-row seat to the apparent end of an extraordinarily consequential partnership .
Tensions between Musk and Trump had been steadily building, but they spilled into the open on Thursday. After Musk took repeated shots at the president’s “Big Beautiful Bill” and the trillions of dollars it will add to the defic