The MAGA right has responded to the explosive feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk largely with pleas for the American president and world’s richest man to reconcile, if only for the greater good of Republican Party dominance.

That doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen anytime soon considering the attacks Musk leveled against Trump on Thursday, Trump’s media tour bashing Musk on Friday, and the fact that White House staff and the president’s proxies are actively pressuring people who’ve been allies to both to pick a side in MAGAland’s ongoing divorce proceedings.

“We are taking away Elon’s friends,” a senior Trump administration official bluntly tells Rolling Stone . “If he wants them back, he will need to kiss Donald Trump’s ass harder than he’s ever kissed anybody

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