Kanye West weighs in on Musk-Trump split

Disgraced rapper Kanye West, who goes by 'Ye', has seemingly weighed successful connected nan nationalist fallout of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

The pair's narration has publically imploded complete nan past 3 days, pinch Musk taking to X today, claiming Trump was mentioned successful nan Epstein files.

Just moments before, Trump suggested nan authorities would trim each backing to Musk's abstraction programs.

In response, Ye, took to X saying, "Bro's please no, we emotion you some truthful much." 

West famously supported Trump successful his 2020 predetermination campaign, past turned and launched his ain campaign, earlier announcing his support erstwhile again for Trump's 2024 campaign.

He mislaid a number of lucrative sponsorships and commercialized deals pursuing a rant connected X successful early 2025 successful which he espoused galore antisemitic views arsenic a "social experiment".

Elon Musk posted accelerated and furiously against Trump connected Thursday, wielding his X relationship for illustration a governmental weapon, nan aforesaid measurement he antecedently utilized it to trash President Biden and different Democrats.

Trump tried to support up connected his own, overmuch smaller site, Truth Social, but nan president was nary lucifer for a societal media-addicted mogul who sometimes posts much than 100 times per day, moreover successful nan mediate of nan night.

While Trump has each nan powerfulness of nan American presidency, including 24/7 entree to nan world's media, Musk has immoderate advantages successful this warfare of words too: A overmuch bigger societal media footprint than Trump and, lately, a willingness to play dirtier than nan president.

While Trump derided Musk pinch generalities — "Elon was 'wearing thin,' I asked him to leave" — Musk wrote much viciously and pinch a overmuch higher volume, astatine 1 constituent invoking nan precocious convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Ordinary societal media users conscionable sat backmost and watched, gobsmacked, arsenic nan warfare of words scrolled by. Influencers joked that Thursday was nan astir absorbing time connected X successful years.

"This is honestly a tremendous magnitude of nosy if you hide for a infinitesimal we are moving a state here," podcast big Jamie Weinstein quipped successful a post.

Long earlier societal media sites were invented, erstwhile newspaper publishers enjoyed wide influence, location was an aged saying that group should "never prime a conflict pinch a man who buys ink by nan barrel."

Now that aged adage applies to nan societal media realm, and it is billionaire owners for illustration Musk who person each nan power.

And Musk is flexing it, pinch station aft station that — existent aliases not, juvenile aliases not — people attention, likes and shares.

If societal media metrics tin beryllium believed, Musk's posts instantly triumph galore much eyeballs. Trump's Truth Social reportedly has 6.3 cardinal progressive users; Musk's X has an estimated 600 million.

On Thursday, nan feud played retired alternatively strangely, connected 2 abstracted societal media sites, pinch Trump and Musk lobbing insults from their respective platforms, for illustration 2 neighbours shouting astatine 1 different complete nan fence.

At 1 point, Musk moreover screenshotted 1 of Trump's Truth Social posts to indirectly reply to nan president.

The feud has been brewing for respective days.

Musk — who posted successful February that "I emotion @realDonaldTrump arsenic overmuch arsenic a consecutive man tin emotion different man" — has harboured sick will astir Trump's signature home argumentation measure but has been hesitant to publically opportunity so.

That changed connected Tuesday, erstwhile he showed his Extremely Online spot pinch a brutally blunt station connected X, calling nan measure a "disgusting abomination."

He followed up connected Wednesday by replying to his fans who agreed pinch him and sharing memes that opposed nan bill, including an image of Uma Thurman from "Kill Bill."

Trump's posts connected Truth Social remained alternatively tepid, moreover though, arsenic The Washington Post reported earlier this week, his posting velocity has really increased.

The president has posted 2,262 times to Truth Social successful his first 132 days backmost successful office, nan Post found, which is "more than 3 times nan number of tweets he sent during nan aforesaid play of his first presidency."

But because Truth Social is truthful small, Trump's missives aren't getting arsenic overmuch traction arsenic Musk's meme-heavy and salacious digs.

On Thursday, earlier Trump said astir Musk successful nan Oval Office and caused Musk to spell scorched earth, Musk began to resurface aged tweets of Trump's, for illustration a 2013 station opposing a Republican scheme to raise nan indebtedness ceiling.

"Wise words," Musk said, suggesting Trump is simply a hypocrite now.

The section erstwhile much proved nan popular-on-X building that "there's a tweet for everything."

Shares of Musk's Tesla sank each day arsenic nan conflict deepened. But so, too, did shares successful Trump Media & Technology Group, nan entity that runs Truth Social.

"I don't mind Elon turning against me, but he should person done truthful months ago," Trump wrote connected his site, arsenic he tried to move attraction backmost to nan pending authorities that he calls nan "Big Beautiful Bill."

He posted immoderate talking points astir nan bill, and then, for illustration a vocalist trying to triumph backmost nan crowd, Trump played nan hit: "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"