Okay, everyone, it is almost 2.30 p.m. on Thursday afternoon. And we recorded most of this podcast a little bit earlier in the day. But we had to come back into the studio because a fight between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump has just exploded into public view. Dan, what the heck just happened?

I mean, everything that we thought would happen,

or at least happened in private between Donald Trump and Elon Musk

and a relationship that clearly seemed fractured,

basically played out in front of cameras and on X over the last hour.

I must confess, I was head down in a story listed into Bruce

Springsteen. When I looked up, their relationship had exploded. I mean, you had Donald Trump in the

Oval Office meeting with the German Chancellor just musing about his relationship with Musk and whether

they would continue to have one and the fact that Musk is now very much against his big beautiful bill that is working

his way through Congress. That caused the tech billionaire to go full bore on his website X by saying,

quote, without me, Trump would have lost the election. Dems would control the House and Republicans

would be 5149 in the Senate.

I mean, also, did you see the post where Elon Musk says that Trump is only going to be president for another three and a half years but says that he's going to be around for 40 plus years?

I mean, quite morbid, first of all.

Incredibly.

Like, that's just one of the many posts that Elon Musk has made today,

including a poll on X where he asks, is it time to create a new political party in America

that actually represents the 80% in the middle, yes or no?

I just want to go out there that that implies that Elon Musk is somewhere in the 80% in the middle.

Dan, how long do you think it's going to take for Trump to issue a very long rant on truth social about this?

I think the better question is, will this podcast be published by the time Donald Trump has ranted on true social about exactly this?

We'll be back in the studio in an hour.

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