A rift between Donald Trump and Elon Musk over the Republican’s tax and spending bill on Thursday suddenly blew up to a flurry of Big, Beautiful, Brutal tweets on social media platforms they own.

Days after Musk stepped down as head of the Trump administrations Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and then openly criticized the Republican Party’s One Big Beautiful Bill, a feud between the tech boss and the U.S. President erupted into open warfare using their respective online megaphones.

“I don’t mind Elon turning against me, but he should have done so months ago,” President Trump at one point told his own diehard supporters on Truth Social. Not long after, Trump in another tweet claimed Musk had been “wearing thin, I asked him to leave,” before adding “he just went CRAZY.”

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