Trump and Musk’s marriage of convenience ended the only way possible for the pair
by David Smith in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6XSXQ)
US president and tech billionaire's transactional bromance has exploded in a public feud over politics and power
Sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy," Donald Trump observed in the Oval Office on Thursday. They hate each other, and they're fighting in a park, and you try and pull them apart. They don't want to be pulled. Sometimes you're better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart."
The US president was referring to the war between Russia and Ukraine but could just as easily have been talking about himself. On Thursday, to the surprise of no one, Trump's bromance with billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk exploded in a very public feud.
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