Trump-Musk relationship implodes with insults and threats

特朗普-马斯克关系破裂,互揭老底并威胁对方

Global News Podcast

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2025-06-06

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are involved in a rapidly escalating row, a week after the billionaire businessman left his job as a US presidential adviser. Also: gaming fans queue to buy the Nintendo Switch 2.
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  • This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Jackie Leonard, and in the early hours of Friday the 6th of June,

  • these are our main stories.

  • Donald Trump and Elon Musk are having a furious and public row a week after Mr Musk left his job at the White House.

  • Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed that Israel is arming a Palestinian militia in Gaza that's been accused of looting aid convoys.

  • And Israel has carried out airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburbs,

  • saying it's targeting Hezbollah drone production.

  • Also in this podcast.

  • We haven't been able to confirm, but MCC members will continuously attempt to communicate.

  • We need to never quit the lunar quest.

  • A Japanese company hoping to make lunar history has lost contact with a spacecraft it was trying to land on the moon.

  • It was probably inevitable that the bromance between the US President Donald Trump and the world's richest man,

  • Elon Musk, wouldn't last forever.

  • And now, just days after Mr Musk officially left his government post as head of Doge,

  • the two men are now embroiled in a very public row.

  • After Mr Musk criticised Mr Trump's spending bill,

  • which he claimed would bankrupt America,

  • President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he was disappointed in Mr Musk.

  • Elon and I had a great relationship.

  • I don't know if we're well anymore.