BREAKING: Elon Musk just announced that Trump 'is in the Epstein files'
The Elon Musk/Trump breakup is here -- and it's more chaotic and explosive than anyone expected.
The alliance between President Trump and Elon Musk has fractured in a dramatic explosion that culminated in a public feud that erupted this Thursday over Musk’s comments about Trump’s major tax bill, dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill,” which is pending in the Senate.
Trump and. Musk exchanged insults publicly, with Trump saying Musk is “upset” about the elimination of electric vehicle credits in the bill and about the Republican president nixing his pick to run NASA.
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I’m very disappointed in Elon. I’ve helped Elon a lot,” Trump told reporters at the White House, where less than a week ago he praised Musk’s work on the DOGE project to cut “waste, fraud and abuse” from government.
“Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will anymore,” Trump said.
Musk fired back at Trump, saying in a post to X, “Whatever.”
“Keep the EV/solar incentive cuts in the bill, even though no oil & gas subsidies are touched (very unfair!!), but ditch the MOUNTAIN of DISGUSTING PORK in the bill. In the entire history of civilization, there has never been legislation that both big and beautiful.”
“Without me, Trump would have lost the election,” Musk tweeted soon after.
“Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate,” added Musk, who was the biggest financial backer of Trump’s 2024 campaign, spending more than $250 million.
“Such ingratitude,” Musk wrote.
“You know, I’ve always liked Elon,” Trump said on Thursday. “I’d rather have him criticize me than the bill, because the bill is incredible.”
“Elon is upset because we took the EV mandate, and you know, which was a lot of money for electric vehicles,” Trump said. “And you know, they’re having a hard time, the electric vehicles, and they want us to pay billions of dollars in subsidy.”
“Elon knew this from the beginning,” Trump said, referring to the elimination of the tax credits in the bill for electric vehicles. “He knew it ... a long time ago.”
Musk responded to Trump’s claim that he “knew this from the beginning,” saying it was a “lie.”
But later this afternoon, Musk dropped the biggest bomb yet.
“Time to drop the really big bomb: [Trump] is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!” Musk wrote on X.
“Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out,” he added.
This is still a developing story.