Elon has gone back and deleted this tweet, along with a handful of others.

The optics for Elon look terrible, but let’s look at positives from all this:

-Elon created distance from Trump, which could be beneficial for the long run of Elon’s work in the private sector. Now if Tesla starts booming, the Left cannot claim that Trump is helping his billionaire buddy. This also might help with the Libs keying and firebombing Teslas.

-The narratives that Elon controls Trump, and vice versa, have been dispelled.

-The Left now have a heightened interest in the Epstein Files, something they used to claim was a conspiracy theory. They are now emotionally invested.

-Trump came off as looking stable, mature, goal-oriented, etc., and disproved a lot of anti-Trump talking points with how he handled this little spat.

After analyzing the current outcome of the feud, I can see the potential advantages of Trump and Elon having distance between each other, now that Elon’s time as a special government employee is over. Which leads me to question, how much of this public spat was real?

Or maybe Elon really did just lose his shit, and we just witnessed the biggest flame-out in history happen on the world stage.

Maybe one day it will all make sense, but as of right now, it looks terrible.

11:20 A.M., Thursday (June 5)Musk, in his first direct attack on Trump amid a days-long rant against Trump’s signature policy bill, reposted a 2013 tweet from Trump that said he was in disbelief and “embarrassed” Republicans were extending the debt ceiling, captioning the repost “wise words,” after Trump said Wednesday the debt limit should be “entirely scrapped” as a provision of the bill, which would raise the debt ceiling ahead of its expected expiration date in August.

12 P.M.Trump, making his first comments on Musk’s criticism of his bill during an Oval Office press conference, insinuated the Tesla CEO opposes his “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” because he is “upset” the electric vehicle tax credit was removed, adding he’s not sure he’ll remain friends with Musk and alleging Musk “knew the inner workings of the bill.”

Trump also suggested Musk is suffering from what he refers to as “Trump derangement syndrome,” which Trump claims happens when people leave the administration and turn on the president.

12:25 P.M.Musk said he didn’t turn on the bill after the EV tax credit was removed: “False, this bill was never shown to me even once and was passed in the dead of night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it!” Musk tweeted.

12:46 P.M.Musk said “without me,” Trump would have lost the election, Democrats would control the House, and Republicans would have a more narrow majority in the Senate, after Musk donated more than $250 million toward Trump’s campaign, accusing Trump in a subsequent tweet of “such ingratitude.”

2:37 P.M.“The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts,” Trump wrote, adding, “I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!”

2:37 P.M.Trump said Musk was “wearing thin” at the White House and he “asked him to leave,” then he “just went CRAZY!” when the EV tax credit was removed from the bill.

2:48 P.M.Musk said it’s “such an obvious lie” and “so sad” Trump asked him to leave and that he was upset over the EV tax credit.

3:10 P.M.Musk alleged on X, without evidence, the reason the White House has yet to fully release the “Epstein files” detailing the FBI’s investigation into the late, disgraced former financier Jeffrey Epstein is because Trump is implicated in them.

4:09 P.M.Musk said he would decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft used by NASA to transport astronauts to the International Space Station.

4:11 P.M.Musk endorsed one user’s suggestion that Trump be impeached, writing “Yes” in response to an X user who wrote “President vs. Elon. Who wins? My money’s on Elon. . . Trump should be impeached and JD Vance should replace him.”

4:26 P.M.Musk said Trump’s tariffs will trigger a recession in the second half of the year, after remaining mostly reserved in his previous criticism of the tariffs.

11:16 P.M.Trump downplayed his public falling out with Musk to Politico, telling the outlet “oh it’s okay,” as White House officials were reportedly working to de-escalate the situation and set up a call between Musk and Trump.

12:30 A.M.Musk appeared to backtrack on his earlier threat to decommission the SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft after a follower urged him not to do so, prompting the billionaire to respond “Good advice. Ok, we won’t decommission Dragon.”

1 A.M., Friday (June 6)Musk signaled he is willing to de-escalate his fight with Trump after hedge-fund billionaire Bill Ackman—who is both a Trump supporter and a Musk ally—tweeted that both of them “should make peace for the benefit of our great country...We are much stronger together than apart.” Musk replied: “You’re not wrong.”

4 A.M.The billionaire later reposted a follower who said “Republicans will likely lose the House in 2026.”

4 A.M.Despite signals of a truce, Musk continued to attack the president’s allies, such as Steve Bannon, and Trump’s signature spending bill.

7 A.M.The price of Tesla’s shares, which plummeted 14% on Thursday amid the clash, is up around 4.4% in premarket trading on Friday morning, after Musk signaled he is open to a truce with Trump.

8:17 A.M.Trump told ABC News in a Friday morning interview he was “not particularly” interested in talking to Musk right now, alleging Musk has “lost his mind.”

12:06 P.M.Trump is “thinking about” selling the Tesla Model S he bought in March, when he showcased the purchase to the media on the White House driveway in a public show of support for Musk, a senior White House official told Forbes, though The New York Times, also citing an unnamed White House source, reported the car is already for sale.

Otherwise, the Musk-Trump feud appeared to simmer in public as of Friday afternoon, with some speculation they could mend fences in a matter of days.

Saturday (June 7)Musk deleted his tweet suggesting Trump was in the Epstein files and removed his other post endorsing the impeachment of the president—though a quote tweet expressing skepticism about Trump and Epstein’s alleged links was still up as of Saturday morning, as well as Musk’s tweet claiming Trump would have lost the election without him.