The friendship of Elon and Elon Musk imploded long before Tesla’s CEO draws a scathing series of X messages last week, as the president declared to the initiates that the former Doge Head was a “drug addict” and estimated that a physical fight with the secretary of the treasure was “too”, reported the Washington Post on Saturday.
Trump warned the initiates in the White House to pay attention to Musk, telling JD Vance to “be careful” when he spoke of the benefits.
Musk is also accused of having “alienated key members of the White House staff, including the chief of staff Susie Wiles, and competed with members of the cabinet” and even by physically assaulting one. The position was maintained with 17 people with knowledge of events, many of whom under the cover of anonymity.
The officials explained that the two men do not agree on the best ways for the country to save money, including the potential adoption of the “Big Beautiful Bill” spending package. The White House began to realize that Musk was “a real political problem” on April 1 after a candidate approved by Trump lost his race for the Supreme Court of the State.
Musk also entered a physical confrontation with the secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent after Trump supported the choice of Bessent to play the commissioner of the IRS at the suggestion of Musk. The men began to “exchange insults” after the meeting with Trump and “Bessent spoke of Musk’s assertions that he would discover more than 1 billion of unnecessary and fraudulent public spending, which Musk had failed to do”.
Musk ended up pushing his shoulder into the coasts of Bessent “like a rugby player” and Bessent responded with blows, something Trump said later was “too”. Towards the end of April, Musk announced that he would withdraw from DC to focus on his own businesses.
One of the last strokes came after Trump told Musk that he did not call Jared Isaacman for the NASA administrator, despite the encouragement of Musk (Isaacman had given a donation to several Democrats). Musk took this as an affront to his own objectives related to space, in particular the colonization of March, and launched his tirade against Trump on days later.
And although some “hope that there will be a reconciliation”, an initiate of the White House declared to the post: “It will never be the same again.”
Read the entire report to Washington Post.
