Elon Musk UNFOLLOWS top Trump aide during social media war

by · Mail Online

The world's richest man and former DOGE leader Elon Musk is going scorched earth online against his former White House allies.

The Tesla owner has for the last several days has been frantically firing off tweets critical of Trump and congressional Republican's Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Escalating the war of words on Thursday, Musk posted that the reason that the Jeffrey Epstein files have yet to be released is because Trump is featured within the files. 

The founder also posted that without his help Trump would have never won the 2024 election. 

Reacting to the billionaires online antics Trump suggested that Musk may have 'Trump Derangement Syndrome.' 

The Tesla owner responded to a video of Trump's comment, ripping the president for 'such ingratitude.' 

Musk has even taken to unfollowing some of the top allies of the the president. 

Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, was reportedly unfollowed by Musk on X. Musk also unfollowed Turning Point USA founder and MAGA loyalist Charlie Kirk, according to X influence tracker 'Big Tech Alert.'

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump shared a warm relationship publicly for months since the Tesla owner began pouring time and money into the Republican's 2024 presidential campaign. Though that relationship has seemingly soured, with Musk now criticizing the president for pushing a bill that will raise the debt and for being involved with Jeffrey Epstein
Elon Musk reportedly unfollowed both Kirk and Miller on X Thursday afternoon
Trump said in a press conference Thursday that Musk's recent posts against the administration and Republicans may be due to the billionaire contracting 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' 

The social media separation from Miller comes despite the White House aide's wife working directly for the Tesla owner himself. 

Katie Miller, Stephen Miller's wife, departed the White House last week after Musk stepped away from DOGE. 

They both were special government employees, meaning they could only work for Trump for 130 days. 

She was working as the spokeswoman for the cost-cutting agency, though now she will be handling press for the mercurial entrepreneur. 

Miller and Musk have traded exchanges on X in recent days over Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Act. 

The Tesla owner has said recently that any Republican lawmaker that supports the Trump-backed Big Beautiful Bill Act should be challenged in the midterms. 

The high-profile unfollows come as Musk shredded his affiliation with the 78-year-old president. 

'Trump has 3.5 years left as President, but I will be around for 40+ years,' Musk wrote on X Thursday afternoon in a cryptic warning. 

Musk and Trump highlighted their friendship in March at a White House event touting Tesla vehicles. The president purchased a red Tesla that day as a favor to Musk. The car has since been used by White House aides
Former DOGE spokesperson Katie Miller is now working for Elon Musk. The billionaire unfollowed her husband, Stephen Miller, on Thursday after sparring with the White House aide repeatedly on X

Trump, for his part, has said that Musk turned against him over electric vehicle provisions being left out of the big, beautiful bill. 

'And you know, Elon's upset because we took the EV mandate, which was a lot of money for electric vehicles, and they're having a hard time the electric vehicles and they want us to pay billions of dollars in subsidy,' Trump said Thursday at the White House.

'I know that disturbed him.' 

The president also mused about how the billionaire may be upset over not getting his friend Jared Isaacman, who worked alongside Musk at SpaceX, to lead NASA. 

'He recommended somebody that I guess he knew very well, I'm sure he respected him, to run NASA and I didn't think it was appropriate and he happened to be a Democrat, like totally Democrat,' Trump continued. 

'We won, we get certain privileges and one of the privileges is we don't have to appoint a Democrat.'

As of Thursday afternoon Musk