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ARTICLE VIEW: | |
How the feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump exploded over 72 hours | |
By Clare Duffy and Amy O’Kruk, CNN | |
Updated: | |
3:41 PM EDT, Fri June 6, 2025 | |
Source: CNN | |
An intense public feud erupted this week between President Donald Trump | |
and his one-time ally, billionaire Elon Musk, with an argument about | |
Trump’s massive tax and domestic policy bill raging across social | |
media and in the Oval Office. | |
Tensions began rising on Tuesday, when what Trump calls his “big, | |
beautiful bill” as a “disgusting abomination,” surprising | |
Republican leaders. | |
But the billionaire escalated the fight on Thursday when he began | |
sharing years-old comments from Trump and other Republican lawmakers | |
raising concerns about US government spending and the deficit. | |
Throughout Thursday and Friday morning, Trump and other prominent | |
figures from the president and the tech leader’s respective orbits | |
joined in. Trump even raised the idea of terminating contracts the | |
government holds with Musk’s companies. | |
The dispute signals just how much and how quickly the relationship | |
between Trump and the world’s richest man has broken down because of | |
disagreement over the bill. Musk was, up until recently, a staunch | |
supporter of the president and near-constant figure in the White House. | |
In an from government work last week, Musk said he would remain “a | |
friend and an advisor” to the Trump administration. | |
Here’s a timeline of the first 72 hours of the feud: | |
This is a developing feud. The timeline will be updated with new | |
developments. | |
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