Even according to the standards of President Donald Trump and the relationship of billionaire Elon Musk, an unprecedented alliance punctuated by a reorganization of the government inspired by the meme, numerous rocket releases, murder attempts, a photograph of political cars of a quarter of billion dollars and electric photographs of electric cars. It has been an unusual week.
For months, Musk had been the closest to Trump’s advisors, even living in his Mar-A-Lago farm in Florida and spending time with the president’s family.
More recently, Trump gave Musk a shipment of the Oval Office of congratulating his work that leads to cost reduction efforts in his administration, giving him a gold key with a White House badge.
But the silenced criticisms of the billionaire about the “great and beautiful bill” of Trump became stronger and more pointed, which culminated in the positions on Thursday in its social media platform that were attributed the credit for Trump’s November victory and the acquisition of the Senate Republicans.
“Without me, Trump would have lost the elections, the Democrats would control the camera and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate,” musk aware. “Such ingratitude.”
Some legislators and republicans care about the apparent deviation of Musk of Trump’s orbit could create new uncertainties for the party, and enliven the republican divisions that would not serve Republicans who go to a critical legislative section before the middle of the period elections.
The round trip attacks, which continued until the weekend and took a very personal turn, reverberated in a capital that both have remodeled.
Trump told several journalists on Friday that he was not thinking of Musk and told the correspondent of the ABC News chief, Jonathan Karl, that Musk had “lost his head.”
In the short term, Trump and the Republican party are trying to muscle their megabill of internal taxes and policies through the Chamber and the Senate, with the thinnest margins and without shortage of disagreements.
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk (R) speak at the Oval office before leaving the White House in Washington on the way to Trump’s residence in Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on March 14, 2025
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Any change in key issues could overthrow the law of high threads necessary to please the Republicans of the Chamber and the Senate.
A torrent without stopping the criticisms of the Musk social networks could collapse the negotiations, harden the position of critics of the bill and even undermine other pieces of the Trump’s first -term agenda.
“You hate seeing division and chaos,” said representative Don Bacon, Republican from Neb., Who represents a swing district, told ABC News about Musco Trump’s failures. “It is not useful.”
Representative Jodey Arrington, a Texas Republican, president of the Chamber Budget Committee, described MUSK a “credible voice” about “debt and expense” issues.
“It is never useful when he says those things. He is a credible person and has a broad reach, but I think he is frustrated and people understand the context,” said Arrington, predicting that both men will eventually solve their dispute.
Republican agents who observe the liquidation are developed this week told ABC News that it is too early to say how the dispute between Trump and Musk could affect the next elections.
The billionaire spent more than anyone in the last elections, investing $ 270 million in groups that promote Trump and other Republicans on the electoral ballot, according to federal presentations of the Electoral Commission.
Tesla and the CEO of Spacex, Elon Musk, leave the White House on the way to the Capitol to attend the joint discourse of President Donald Trump to Congress in Washington, on March 4, 2025.
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He already suggested that he would reduce his political donations the next cycle, more than a year of the mid -period elections.
In the final stretch of the 2024 race, he moved to Pennsylvania, organizing municipalities and financing his own effort to go out in the critical state.
Since his incursion in Washington, Musk has become a deeply polarizing and unpopular figure, while the president’s approval index has increased in some recent surveys.
The groups affiliated with Musk spent $ 20 million this spring in the career of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, only for the liberal candidate to win, pointing to some Republicans the limits of Musk’s political attraction.
Although the Republicans of the next cycle can lose their support, Trump has continued to raise millions of dollars to support his future political plans, a remarkable sum for a limited president by term that underlines his central role in the party and the status of creator of indisputable kings.
President Donald Trump leaves the Oval office when he leaves the White House, on June 6, 2025 in Washington.
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Representative Mike Lawler, RN.y., who is reflecting an offer of governor in 2026, minimized tensions or political implications, suggesting that reporters “spend much more time worrying about these things than most average people.”
“I’m sure they will make peace,” Lawler told ABC News on Friday.
There were some signs of a dentant. While Musk continued to launch insults to Trump’s ally and critic Steve Bannon, his activity in social networks seemed to cool off on Friday, and the billionaire said that a defender “was not wrong” for saying that Trump and Musk are “much stronger together than separate.”
Through almost a decade in politics and three campaigns for the White House, Trump has demonstrated a remarkable capacity to go through disputes or disagreements with many intra -party and critical rivals at the time, including some that now serve in their cabinet.
Now, some Republicans left Washington this week wondering if Musk is willing to do the same.
