We are in something that is messy and intense, but also matters.

The explosion in what is now the clearly, completely broken relationship between President Trump

and his largest donor, Elon Musk, who went from lording over cabinet meetings,

holding that special goodbye press appearance in the Oval Office.

Remember, that was just last week to a total blowout

battle today that is riveting Washington, politics, huge corners of the internet, as I said,

both for its messiness, pettiness, but also its stakes. Now, they hit new lows with Musk trying to

smear Trump with a horrific conspiracy theory, Trump blasting Musk, and now doing something that should never be normal, whether he's mad at Musk or not, which is blatantly threatening to abuse the federal government to retaliate against him.

Meanwhile, Tesla's stock is down today. We'll get into that, which hits Musk where it hurts. What began with the tension earlier this week, and Musk lashing out at Trump's top legislative

priority, but claiming that it was a policy dispute, has turned petty. As I mentioned to our

colleague Nicole, it has turned rap beef level petty and personal.

So these two men, again, who have, in one case, businesses to run,

in the other case a country to obviously run,

are not exactly acting like mature professionals to say the least.

Today they have exchanged a volley of threats and vitriol, taunts, and attacks.

And I'll just say something,

sometimes in the news we just sort of tell you what we're seeing, and it sounds obvious. So let me put it like this. The exchange between these two men just today is actually far harsher,

more negative and nasty than what we've been seeing between the two political parties for the

last several weeks or months, which reminds you just how bananas this is. Now, these are two men

who claim to be working together towards largely the same agenda or goals as recently as last week.

One of them remains a huge player in Republican

politics because money matters. Everybody knows that in our American system, where you can donate a lot,

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