Former presidential adviser and confidante Elon Musk escalated his growing feud with President Trump by saying the president's tariffs would result in a recession later this year.

“The Trump Tariffs will cause a recession in the second half of this year,” he wrote on his social media website, X.

The remark is the latest dig at Trump’s policies since the tech billionaire left his role in the administration last week as head of the government cost-cutting panel known as the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

Musk blasted Republicans’ tax-and-spending-cut bill this week, which Trump helped to shepherd through the House last month, calling it a “disgusting abomination.”

“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk wrote on X on Tuesday. “This massive, outrageous, pork-fi

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