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For Trump and Musk, breaking up wasn’t all that hard

U.S. President Donald Trump's relationship with Elon Musk soured quickly this week, as the billionaires feuded publicly.

It took less than five months, but Elon Musk has repealed a more-than-half-century-old political science principle established by the singer Neil Sedaka. Mr. Musk has shown that “breaking up is hard to do” – the title of the crooner’s most famous song – doesn’t apply in Donald Trump’s Washington.

Actually, in the case of Mr. Musk and his patron Mr. Trump – the power balance between the two billionaires was never quite clear – breaking up wasn’t that hard at all.

It took the political furor caused by a chainsaw (the unfortunate Musk metaphor for his government cuts); resentment from Republican lawmakers

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