President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s public breakup broke the internet this week, sparking several concerns and questions about the two most powerful men in the world, a political historian says.

What began earlier this week as a seemingly slow unraveling of a close relationship between Trump and his billionaire adviser quickly imploded on Thursday into a real-time public spat on social media.

Trump had said earlier in the day that he was “very disappointed” in Musk for harshly criticizing his so-called Big Beautiful Bill, which would add $2.4 trillion to the deficit over 10 years, cut federal spending by nearly $1.3 million with cuts to Medicaid and other social programs, and leave about 10.9 million more people without health insurance, according to the nonpartisan Congressio

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