Elon Musk ’s amicable voluntary separation from the Trump administration turned into something else entirely in the flash of a tweet. First it was reported that Musk was infuriated by various slights and policy rebuffs from the White House that affected his pocketbook. Then the former edgelord of DOGE started sniping at Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill . And then it got very personal, very fast, as my colleague Nia Prater observed :

When Elon Musk denounced Republicans’ hefty spending plan as a “disgusting abomination” earlier this week , he largely steered clear of President Donald Trump , who has thrown his support behind the One Big Beautiful Bill.

That changed on Thursday afternoon when the world’s richest man went after the world’s most powerful man.

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