Elon Musk Is Posting Through It

Elon Musk is galore things: billionaire, natalist, aspiring gamer. He runs gigantic companies and dreams of colonizing Mars. But supra all, Elon Musk is a poster. And arsenic his storied relationship pinch President Donald Trump dissolves successful existent time, by god, he is posting done it.

The resulting timeline—a chaotic, catty, incendiary voyage into nan grievances of nan world’s richest man pinch nan president of nan United States—should beryllium enshrined arsenic a humanities artifact, a front-row spot to nan evident extremity of an extraordinarily consequential partnership.

Tensions betwixt Musk and Trump had been steadily building, but they spilled into nan unfastened connected Thursday. After Musk took repeated shots astatine nan president’s “Big Beautiful Bill” and nan trillions of dollars it will adhd to nan deficit, Trump accused Musk of caring only astir nan removal of an electrical conveyance in installments that helps Tesla and suggested their narration had frayed.

Then came Musk’s many, galore posts connected X. Between 12:19 p.m. ET and 3:20 p.m. ET, Musk fired disconnected 49 posts, reposts, aliases replies. That’s an mean of 1 caller missive each 3.5 minutes, complete a three-hour stretch.

It started simply enough. “Whatever,” Musk posted to X astatine 12:19 p.m. ET. “Keep nan EV/solar inducement cuts successful nan bill, moreover though nary lipid & state subsidies are touched (very unfair!!), but ditch nan MOUNTAIN of DISGUSTING PORK successful nan bill. In nan full history of civilization, location has ne'er been authorities that [sic] some large and beautiful. Everyone knows this! Either you get a large and disfigured measure aliases a slim and beautiful bill. Slim and beautiful is nan way.”

Less than half an hr later, aft a fewer much innocuous posts and successful consequence to a video of Trump saying he would person won Pennsylvania sloppy of Musk’s help, Musk went nuclear. “Without me, Trump would person mislaid nan election, Dems would power nan House and nan Republicans would beryllium 51-49 successful nan Senate,” he posted.

From there, Musk played nan hits: A bad pun (“Kill Bill”). Multiple “crying laughing” emojis. A worthless quiz. Sympathetic retweets. The past fewer hours person been a sprint done Musk’s posting playbook, well-honed done years of being X’s proprietor and 1 of its astir committed users.

Trump posted too: “The easiest measurement to prevention money successful our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts,” he wrote connected Truth Social during Musk’s meltdown. “Elon was ‘wearing thin,’ I asked him to leave, I took distant his EV Mandate that forced everyone to bargain Electric Cars that cipher other wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he conscionable went CRAZY!”

Musk responded by accusing Trump of being successful nan Epstein Files. (As of this writing, he’s still pursuing that thread.) He besides claimed that “@SpaceX will statesman decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately,” which would deprive NASA of its preferred shuttle to nan International Space Station.

“I don’t mind Elon turning against me,” wrote Trump connected Truth Social, “but he should person done truthful months ago. This is 1 of nan Greatest Bills ever presented to Congress.”

“Trump should beryllium impeached and JD Vance should switch him,” wrote far-right X poster Ian Miles Cheong. “Yes,” Musk responded.

The very nationalist spat betwixt nan world’s richest man and its astir powerful leader shows nary motion of slowing. The consequences of nan falling-out could besides beryllium astronomical: Musk is worthy hundreds of billions of dollars and has proven that he’s happy to deploy it to execute his ain governmental and individual ends. Trump has powerfulness to choke disconnected galore of Musk’s companies from lucrative authorities contracts.

It’s an unprecedented infinitesimal that seems apt to lead to unpredictable places. But immoderate twists it takes, there’s astatine slightest immoderate assurance that they’ll hap retired successful nan open.