The feud between President Trump and his former adviser, Elon Musk, ramped up Thursday as the two lashed out at each other on social media.
Musk — who for days has been blasting a GOP megabill advancing most of Trump's biggest domestic policy priorities— said that Trump would have lost the election without his support, and called him ungrateful.
Then Trump posted that "the easiest way" to save billions of dollars of government spending would be to "terminate Elon's governmental subsidies and contracts."
The public feud seemed to drive a stake through what had been a big-money political bromance. Musk, who spent close to $300 million to elect Trump and became one of his closest advisers before leaving the administration last week, suggested it was time to start a new political party