Trump, Musk and the end of a bromance

特朗普、马斯克与一段友情终结

Today in Focus

2025-06-10

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Andrew Roth details the explosive falling-out between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and what it tells us about the future of the US presidency. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, the fight that, well, nearly everyone saw coming.

  • What Musk versus Trump says about the next four years.

  • Obviously.

  • Obviously.

  • For critics of the president and of the richest man in the world,

  • it has been a joy to behold.

  • The president's biggest campaign donor,

  • who was so close that Trump invited him to sleep at the White House,

  • is now calling for him to be impeached and replaced by vice president.

  • He said Elon wants to talk to him.

  • He's not ready to talk to Musk, who he called a man who has lost his mind.

  • But the open.

  • ugly dispute between Donald Trump and Elon Musk may be more than a battle between two egotistical and erratic men.

  • Beneath it all, really, is a fight for the soul of MAGA,

  • what this movement means, how it's going to try to change America.

  • And the past few days might tell us which side of that fight is winning.

  • From The Guardian, I'm Michael Safi.

  • Today in Focus, the Musk-Trump alliance comes to a fiery end.

  • Andrew Roth, you're The Guardian's global affairs correspondent based in Washington, D.C.,