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After months of political bliss, it seems as if the president and the world’s richest man are ready to call it quits. Donald Trump and Elon Musk traded barbs on their respective social media websites on Thursday and into Friday, as social media users happily looked on.

It was only a matter of time before Trump and Musk, who are not known for making and keeping allies, had a spectacular falling out. The inciting incident turned out to be Musk’s criticisms of the Trump-backed “Big Beautiful Bill,” the House’s spending bill that slashes the safety net in order to provide $4.5 trillion worth of tax cuts to the rich.

At first, Musk’s comments were mild, saying the bill doesn’t reduce the defic

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