President Trump has now threatened the tech mogul to cut all funding for his companies. AP In a show of support for Tesla, which was battered by anti-DOGE boycotts, vandalism and arson attacks, Trump publicly purchased a red Model S on the White House driveway March 11 after buying a Cybertruck for his granddaughter Kai. Musk gushed in February that “I love [Trump] as much as a straight man can love another man” and the president reciprocated with routine weekend getaways on Air Force One with his new friend, who would stay at the Mar-a-Lago resort and sometimes in the White House’s Lincoln Bedroom. The electric vehicle subsidies already were due to be phased out in Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the vehicle through which Trump hopes to deliver on commitments to slash taxes on overtime, tips and Social Security benefits. Musk took to X to respond and said that SpaceX will decommission its reusable, crew-carrying Dragon spacecraft. Getty Images Musk denounced the bill as wasteful and likely to add to the national debt, prompting Trump to retaliate by claiming the breakup was all about that provision, not concern about the national debt. “Elon was ‘wearing thin,’ I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!” Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday afternoon. Musk retaliated: “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the [Jeffrey] Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!” He later suggested Trump should be impeached and replaced with Vice President JD Vance, replying, “yes” to an X post from conservative pundit Ian Miles Cheong floating the idea. Filed under