Big, Beautiful Bromance On Break? Why Elon Musk & Donald Trump Are Fighting Over EVs

<p data-start=”157″ data-end=”394″><em><strong>Musk Vs Trump:</strong> </em>What happens when the world&rsquo;s richest disruptor and the world&rsquo;s most unpredictable president stop getting along? You get a Twitter (now X) meltdown, a tanking stock, and a political soap opera with more twists than a Tesla Autopilot on caffeine.</p>
<p data-start=”396″ data-end=”841″>The bromance between Elon Musk and Donald Trump officially blew a fuse this week. The cause? Trump&rsquo;s pet project &mdash; the <em data-start=”515″ data-end=”540″>One Big, Beautiful Bill</em> &mdash; a sweeping tax and domestic policy overhaul that quietly slips a knife into the back of electric vehicle subsidies. Musk, who once strolled the White House halls as head of Trump&rsquo;s Department of Government Efficiency (yes, DOGE was real), is now calling the bill a &ldquo;disgusting abomination.&rdquo; Subtle.</p>
<p data-start=”843″ data-end=”1115″>Trump, never one to take criticism gently, fired back: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m very disappointed with Elon. I&rsquo;ve helped him a lot. He knew the inner workings of the bill better than anybody sitting here&hellip; he only developed the problem when he found out we’re going to cut EV mandate.&rdquo;</p>
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<p dir=”ltr” lang=”en”>🚨TRUMP: “I’m very disappointed with Elon. I’ve helped him a lot. He knew the inner workings of the bill better than anybody sitting here. He had no problem with it. All of a sudden he had a problem &amp; he only developed the problem when he found out we’re going to cut EV mandate” <a href=”https://t.co/aeCcmCAODQ”>pic.twitter.com/aeCcmCAODQ</a></p>
&mdash; DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) <a href=”https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1930661316412182564?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>June 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<p data-start=”1117″ data-end=”1327″>Musk, flipping the switch to flamethrower mode, replied: &ldquo;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!&rdquo;</p>
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<p dir=”ltr” lang=”en”>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! <a href=”https://t.co/V4ztekqd4g”>https://t.co/V4ztekqd4g</a></p>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=”https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1930662301792977094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>June 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<p data-start=”1329″ data-end=”1338″>Ah, bromance.</p>
<h3 data-start=”1340″ data-end=”1377″><span style=”color: #ba372a;”><strong>The EV Mandate: Death by Footnote</strong></span></h3>
<p data-start=”1379″ data-end=”1435″>So, what&rsquo;s got Musk&rsquo;s lithium-ion batteries overheating?</p>
<p data-start=”1437″ data-end=”1848″>Buried on page 30 of Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;Big Beautiful Bill&rdquo; is Section 112002 &mdash; the kind of bureaucratic horror that keeps policy wonks up at night. This clause fast-forwards the death of the federal EV tax credit from 2032 to <em data-start=”1654″ data-end=”1664″>drumroll</em> December 31, 2025. That means starting 2026, if you want a Tesla, you&rsquo;ll be paying full price while still dodging potholes and praying for a charging station in the middle of nowhere.</p>
<p data-start=”1850″ data-end=”2030″>Oh, and just to make your wallet feel extra seen: there&rsquo;s a new $250 annual tax for EV owners and $100 for hybrid drivers. Because saving the planet clearly isn&rsquo;t patriotic enough.</p>
<p data-start=”2032″ data-end=”2137″>Trump&rsquo;s logic? EVs &ldquo;struggle without subsidies&rdquo; and &ldquo;harm US autoworkers.&rdquo; Musk&rsquo;s logic? <em data-start=”2123″ data-end=”2137″>This is war.</em></p>
<h3 data-start=”2139″ data-end=”2197″><span style=”color: #ba372a;”><strong>Meltdown Mode: SpaceX, Epstein, and $250 Million Shade</strong></span></h3>
<p data-start=”2199″ data-end=”2612″>The EV fight quickly mutated into a full-on personality clash. Musk quit DOGE last week (he says it was scheduled; Trump says he showed him the door). Then Trump hinted at pulling billions in federal contracts from Musk&rsquo;s companies. Musk responded by threatening to pull SpaceX&rsquo;s Dragon spacecraft from NASA missions. (Yes, he literally tried to ground the US space program out of spite &mdash; billionaire problems.)</p>
<p data-start=”2614″ data-end=”2856″>Musk then accused Trump of hiding Jeffrey Epstein files to protect himself &mdash; a completely evidence-free mic drop that the White House swiftly batted away, noting Trump&rsquo;s name <em data-start=”2789″ data-end=”2795″>does</em> appear in flight logs, just not in the &ldquo;suspicious&rdquo; section.</p>
<p data-start=”2858″ data-end=”3124″>And, of course, it wouldn&rsquo;t be Musk without some personal scorekeeping. He reminded Trump &mdash; and the world &mdash; that he poured <em data-start=”2981″ data-end=”2995″>$250 million</em> into the 2024 campaign to help him win. His words? Trump is <em data-start=”3056″ data-end=”3071″>&ldquo;ungrateful.&rdquo;</em> Trump&rsquo;s response? Essentially, &ldquo;thanks for nothing.&rdquo;</p>
<h3 data-start=”3126″ data-end=”3171″><span style=”color: #ba372a;”><strong>Political Drama Meets Wall Street Wipeout</strong></span></h3>
<p data-start=”3173″ data-end=”3487″>While the two billionaires slap-fight over who ghosted who, Tesla shareholders are the ones getting dumped. The EV maker&rsquo;s stock nosedived by 14%, erasing $150 billion in value. Meanwhile, Republicans are scrambling to focus on the bill&rsquo;s supposed economic magic &mdash; which is now lost in the Musk-Trump echo chamber.</p>
<p data-start=”3489″ data-end=”3641″>So here we are: a president who can&rsquo;t resist clapping back, a tech mogul with a persecution complex, and a tax bill with more booby traps than benefits.</p>
<p data-start=”3643″ data-end=”3802″ data-is-last-node=”” data-is-only-node=””>Moral of the story? If you ever become a government official with your own efficiency department named after a meme coin, maybe read the bill before you tweet.</p>