{"id":858280,"date":"2025-06-26T19:12:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T00:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/caught-in-a-bad-bromance-trump-and-musk-go-for-the-throat-what-just-happened\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T19:12:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T00:12:30","slug":"caught-in-a-bad-bromance-trump-and-musk-go-for-the-throat-what-just-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/caught-in-a-bad-bromance-trump-and-musk-go-for-the-throat-what-just-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Caught in a bad bromance: Trump and Musk go for the throat \u2013 what just happened?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hours after US President Donald Trump spoke with his Chinese counterpart<\/span><\/a> on Thursday night and shared optimistic remarks about the call on social media, a public feud escalated between him and his biggest political donor.<\/p>\n

Elon Musk, once Trump\u2019s most high-profile donor and self-proclaimed \u201cfirst buddy\u201d, lambasted the \u201cbig beautiful bill\u201d<\/span><\/a> earlier this week \u2013 one of Trump\u2019s key domestic policy initiatives that was recently passed by the House \u2013 lighting the fuse on a public fight that quickly spiralled into a fiery exchange of accusations.<\/p>\n

In this explainer, the Post takes a closer look at Trump\u2019s One Big Beautiful Bill Act \u2013 examining a specific clause that fuelled the fallout, how the two sides turned on each other, and the economic ripples that have followed.<\/p>\n

How did the feud start?<\/h3>\n

Musk called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act a \u201cdisgusting abomination\u201d in a social media post on his own website, X, saying it was a \u201cmassive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden American citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt,\u201d added Musk, who was at the helm of the US\u2019 cost-saving-focused Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) until last week.<\/p>\n

This was the second time Musk publicly lashed out at the bill. In late May, before officially leaving the Doge, he said he was \u201cdisappointed\u201d by the bill and believed the legislation \u201cincreases the budget deficit\u201d and \u201cundermines the work that the Doge team is doing\u201d.<\/p>\n

In response, Trump suggested that Musk was upset about the removal of mandates for electric vehicles (EVs), which could affect his Tesla business, while the president was speaking to reporters during a news conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

Georgianna Kucera
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Hours after US President Donald Trump spoke with his Chinese counterpart on Thursday night and shared optimistic remarks about the call on social media, a public feud escalated between him and his biggest political donor. Elon Musk, once Trump\u2019s most high-profile donor and self-proclaimed \u201cfirst buddy\u201d, lambasted the \u201cbig beautiful bill\u201d earlier this week \u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":858281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22825,412],"tags":[15431,9265],"class_list":{"0":"post-858280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bromance","8":"category-caught","9":"tag-bromance","10":"tag-caught"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}