Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. This story was originally published by Capital B. Last summer, Elon Musk quietly transformed a portion of a South Memphis, Tennessee, community established by a group of formerly enslaved people in 1863 into what the world’s wealthiest man...
Danai Nesta Kupemba BBC News Getty Images Billionaire Elon Musk has said he regrets some of the posts he made about US President Donald Trump during their war of words on social media. “I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went too far,” he said on his platform X....
US President Donald Trump has said his relationship with Elon Musk is over. “I would assume so, yeah,” Trump told NBC News on Saturday, when asked if he thought the pair’s close relationship had ended. He replied “No” when asked if he wished to mend the damaged ties. The comments were Trump’s latest since the...
10 minutes ago ShareSave ShareSave FINANCIAL TIMES Allies of Trump and Musk are urging the two to mend their relationship, reports the Financial Times, to try to limit political and commercial damage THE DAILY MIRROR Their rancour is inspiring plenty of headlines – with the Daily Mirror weighing in on the ‘babies at war’, noting...
US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s relationship has come crashing down after an explosive row that started with the tech billionaire’s disdain for the president’s spending bill. The partnership between the two men began when Musk endorsed Trump last July after an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. Mush later went on to campaign for the...
Watch: How Trump and Musk’s break-up played out in real time Even though observers have long speculated that Donald Trump and Elon Musk would eventually fall out, few predicted the speed and ferocity with which their social media feud erupted. Since Musk pledged his full-throated support for the president following an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania...
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Amid the ongoing feud between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, some Democrats are advocating for courting Musk as an ally — a move that demonstrates the willingness of some members of the party to compromise principles to win elections. Over the past week, Musk has openly and frequently criticized Trump’s budget proposal —...
What happens when the richest person and the most powerful politician have a knock-down, drag-out fight? The world may be about to find out. A disagreement between Elon Musk and Donald Trump started at a simmer last week, began bubbling on Wednesday and is now in full-on boil. And like everything these two men do,...
Reuters Musk – who weeks ago wore a hat reading “Trump was right about everything!” – has attacked the president’s signature bill For 130 days, tech billionaire Elon Musk was a “special government employee” working inside the Trump administration to slash what he said were wasteful government programmes and bloated departments. Now, after his exit...
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I read this opinion piece earlier today and it is somewhat surprising to see this in the NY Times after they and other big media outlets spent months demonizing Musk. This gist here is that Musk shouldn’t be judged like a normal politician because he’s more than that. It’s titled “How History Will Remember Elon...
Elon Musk hit out at President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax and spending bill, posting on X that he “can’t stand” the legislation and describing it as a “disgusting abomination”. The bill – which includes multi-trillion dollar tax breaks and increased defence spending while also allowing the US government to borrow more money – was...
There’s a bit of a media brawl taking place this week over the issue of USAID funding which was cut off by DOGE. At base it’s an argument over whether the cutting off of that funding has had any clearly discernible effects in places around the globe. There is a Boston University professor named Brooke...
Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, White House Watch: A black eye and a gold key – Musk’s last day at Doge Elon Musk’s time in the Trump administration has come to an end with a news conference in the Oval Office in which he and the US president defended the work of Doge – and...