Donald Trump and Elon Musk have gone from happily using each other for mutual benefit to openly slagging each other off in public. Yes, it is a complete and total shock that the relationship between these two extremely well-adjusted, deeply altruistic, entirely compos mentis individuals has broken down, possibly for good.
On Thursday, Musk took to social media to go scorched-earth on the president in a series of escalating posts that caused shares of Tesla to plunge and, as of this writing, included this claim:
Musk preceded that accusation by calling Trump a literal ingrate, writing , “Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate. Such ingratitude.” Those comments were undoubtedly inspired by Oval