It was a match made in Maga Heaven, the world's richest man and the president of the United States, seemingly the best of friends.

I think the word that has most commonly been used to describe their relationship this year has been bromance.

Our colleague Rebecca Ballhouse has been writing about the relationship between President

Trump and Elon Musk.

We have seen sort of a genuine affection between the two men until recently that defied even

what people had expected.

For a while, there was also pretty much nowhere Trump was going where Elon wasn't going

with him. I mean, every time he'd get on Air Force One, Musk was accompanying him. He would go to

Mara Lago with him every weekend. So they were spending a lot of time together.

In February, the bromance was on full display during a Fox News interview.

The two men were asked about a recent settlement between Trump and X, Musk's social media company.

Trump and Musk sat down to do this joint interview with Sean Hannity on Fox,

and they're sitting incredibly close together, their knees are almost touching.

They're both nodding really vigorously when the other is responding to one of his questions.

And Hannity opens the interview by saying, let me just get this straight.

Elon is working for you for free.

He, you know, has put a lot of his life on hold, and you just made him pay you $10 million.

You sued Twitter a number of years ago. You just made him pay you $10 million?

That's right. It's a very low. I was looking to get much more money than that.

So you gave him a discount when the lawsuit?

He got a dis-oh. He got a big discount. And then he turns to Musk and says, and you don't care about that? And Musk basically says, no, I love the president.

Why, I love the president? I just want to be clear about that.

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