Elon Musk endorsed Donald Trump after a would-be assassin’s bullet grazed Trump’s ear on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania in July 2024. But nearly a year later, that relationship appears over. Following a sendoff from the White House last week,

Trump targeted government contracts for Musk-owned companies as the feud escalated. “The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts,

President Donald Trump said Thursday that the "easiest way" for the government to save money would be to "terminate" contracts and subsidies going to billionaire Elon Musk, amid an escalating war of words between the commander-in-chief and the world's wealthiest man.