Unlikely bromance between Trump and Musk implodes in real time over social media

Unlikely bromance between Trump and Musk implodes in real time over social media

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

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.

”He’s been amazing,” Mr. Trump reciprocated, after Mr. Musk had spent hundreds of millions of dollars to support his return to office, first staying at a cottage at the President’s Mar-a-Lago resort, then ripping what he called a ”chainsaw” through the spending and hiring plans of numerous federal ag