Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s Big, Beautiful Breakup

We all saw this crashout coming.

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Bruh — I knew it. I'm pretty sure we all knew it.

The day President Donald Trump teamed up with his billionaire bosom buddy, tech-bro CEO Elon Musk, we all knew it was only a matter of time before the MAGA-fied version of “The Honeymooners” would come to an end.

The day Musk failed to make it through Trump's inauguration day without throwing up Nazi salutes — as if the owner of one of the nation's most used social media platforms didn’t understand how memes work — I knew it wouldn't be too long before Dumb and Bigly Dumb decided the White House wasn't big enough for both of their yuge egos.

If the relationship between Trump and Musk were a TV drama, what's going on between them now would be one of the most poorly written non-twists plots to air since Fonzie “jumped the shark,” creating a whole pop culture expression that would go on to perfectly describe Musk, Trump and the entire first five months of the president's second term.

These fools been jumped the shark.

Last week, Musk left Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after roughly five months of, well, pretending to know anything about government or efficiency or spending cuts or math or how to hire a team of people who aren’t also utterly clueless. Then, this week, Musk took to X to rip the president’s “big, beautiful bill,” the massive tax and spending cuts package that will kick 10.9 million people off Medicaid and cut SNAP benefits by $230 billion over 10 years, which the House GOP just barely passed before handing it over to the Senate.

“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,” Musk tweeted. “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”

“Congress is making America bankrupt,” he declared in a separate post.

In another tweet, Trump's former bestie said: “In November next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people.”

Musk spent a couple of days bemoaning the boss' big, beautiful bill, basically belittling it as some bullshit that's about to leave us all broke.

To be fair, Musk isn't the only public figure who is suddenly critical of Trump's policies after gargling the president's Tang-flavored sack sweat for the last several years. Some GOP legislators who voted to advance the legislation, like Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.), had to plead ignorance and admit to their constituents that they weren’t aware of unpopular provisions in Trump’s bill, because, apparently, they didn’t read it.

To Trump's credit, he hasn't even really wigged out over Musk attacking him on the socials. I mean, sure, he clapped back, saying, “Elon was 'wearing thin’” and “just went CRAZY.” He told reporters that he's “very disappointed” that Musk had become such a big beautiful bill-besmirching bitch-ass nigga. He mused that the “easiest way to save money...is to terminate Elon's Government Subsidies.” Other than that, Trump has been uncharacteristically reserved.

Actually, that's the only part of their fallout that wasn't predictable. I would have bet a whole paycheck that after Musk said the first negative thing about Trump, the commander-in-white-and-fragile-egos would have been up at the wee hours of the morning, rage-posting insults, run-on sentences, spelling errors, random words in all caps and random phrases in quotation marks that aren't actual quotes. (Well, he did do that last thing.)

Elon, on the other hand, has been crashing all the way out.