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White House aides have reportedly scheduled a call on Friday with the billionaire Tesla chief executive after the pair traded insults
US president Donald Trump<\/strong> told Politico, \u201cOh it\u2019s OK,\u201d and, \u201cIt\u2019s going very well, never done better,\u201d when asked about his public breakup with billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk<\/strong>, the news outlet reported on Thursday.
White House aides have scheduled a call on Friday with Musk to broker a peace, Politico reported.
On Thursday, Trump and Musk escalated their disagreement about the US budget bill<\/strong> into a big public argument on social media. When asked about Musk\u2019s criticism of his \u201cBig, Beautiful Bill\u201d, the US president told reporters:
<\/path><\/svg>Elon and I had a great relationship. I don\u2019t know if we will any more.
Trump also said he was \u201cvery disappointed in Elon\u201d.
In return, Musk published a flurry of posts that stepped up his feud with the president and went on to claim that without him Trump would have <\/em>\u201clost the election\u201d before bemoaning what he called \u201csuch ingratitude\u201d.
Meanwhile, a district judge in Boston<\/strong> has blocked the Trump administration\u2019s ban on Harvard\u2019s international students from entering the United States<\/strong> after the Ivy League university argued the move was illegal.
Harvard had asked the judge, Allison Burrough<\/strong>, to block the ban, pending further litigation, arguing Trump had violated federal law by failing to back up his claims that the students posed a threat to national security.<\/p>\n

More on both of these stories in a moment, but first, here are some other key developments:
Musk also suggested Trump should be impeached and that JD Vance should replace Trump<\/strong>, warning that Trump\u2019s global tariffs would \u201ccause a recession in the second half of this year\u201d and claimed Trump was in the Jeffrey Epstein files<\/a>.
The White House described the Epstein assertions as an \u201cunfortunate episode\u201d, <\/strong>in a statement to CNN.
Meanwhile, Steve Bannon, a longtime Trump<\/a> ally and Elon Musk critic, suggested there were grounds to deport the tech billionaire, who has US citizenship. <\/strong>Bannon told the New York Times: \u201cThey should initiate a formal investigation of his immigration status because I am of the strong belief that he is an illegal alien, and he should be deported from the country immediately.\u201d
Poland\u2019s foreign minister poked fun at Musk late on Thursday, returning to a social media spat from March after the Tesla and SpaceX boss spectacularly fell out with Trump. <\/strong>Warsaw\u2019s top diplomat Radoslaw Sikorski found himself embroiled in an extraordinarily public clash with Musk and US secretary of state Marco Rubio in March after he said Ukraine may need an alternative to the Starlink satellite service.
Trump\u2019s pick to be the next US surgeon general has repeatedly said the nation\u2019s medical, health and food systems are corrupted by special interests and people out to make a profit at the expense of Americans\u2019 health. <\/strong>Yet as Casey Means has criticized scientists, medical schools and regulators for taking money from the food and pharmaceutical industries, she has promoted dozens of health and wellness products \u2013 including specialty basil seed supplements, a blood testing service and a prepared meal delivery service \u2013 in ways that put money in her own pocket. A review by The Associated Press found Means, who has carved out a niche in the wellness industry, set up deals with an array of businesses.
Tesla<\/strong> shares rose on Friday as investors took some comfort from White House<\/strong> aides scheduling a call with CEO Elon Musk<\/strong> to broker peace after a public feud with President Donald Trump<\/strong>, reports Reuters.<\/p>\n

The electric carmaker\u2019s shares were up about 5% in Frankfurt<\/strong> on Friday, having closed down 14.3% on Thursday in New York<\/strong>, losing about $150bn in market value.
\u201cIt\u2019s unlikely that Trump will end subsidies and contracts with Tesla<\/a>. Those are obviously threats that are unlikely to come into fruition,\u201d Fiona Cincotta<\/strong>, senior market analyst at City Index<\/strong> told Reuters. \u201cI don\u2019t expect this to blow out into anything more serious than a war of words for a couple of days.\u201d
Analysts said some of Thursday\u2019s sell-off was down to factors beyond Musk\u2019s personal relationship with the president.
\u201cWe think the stock\u2019s sell-off reflects a number of other factors: an unjustified run-up following its Q1 earnings release, ongoing market share losses in China and Europe, and a realization that next week\u2019s Robotaxi launch in Austin could disappoint,\u201d Garrett Nelson<\/strong>, senior equity analyst at CFRA Research<\/strong>, said in a note to Reuters. \u201cWe remain at Hold, expecting more volatility in the near term. Buckle up!\u201d he said.
Tesla shares, which hit record highs when Trump won the election in November, have since been punished harshly, as Musk\u2019s cost-cutting role in the US administration hurt Tesla\u2019s image with shareholders and consumers alike.<\/p>\n

\u201cElon Musk has already signalled that he is open to a cooling off period with Trump, and stock market futures are higher on Friday morning. Thus, the risk could be more localised with Tesla shares in the short term,\u201d Kathleen Brooks<\/strong>, XTB<\/strong> research director, said.
Germany<\/strong> will remain dependent on the United States \u201cfor a long time to come,\u201d chancellor Friedrich Merz<\/strong> said on Friday just hours after returning from his inaugural visit to Washington DC<\/strong>, where he held talks with President Donald Trump<\/strong>.
\u201cWhether we like it or not, we will remain dependent on the United States, on America, for a long time to come,\u201d Merz said in a speech during a family entrepreneurs\u2019 event, reports Reuters.
The United States is placing sanctions on four judges from the international criminal court (ICC)<\/strong> for what it has called its \u201cillegitimate actions\u201d targeting the United States and Israel<\/strong>.
The secretary of state, Marco Rubio<\/strong>, announced the sanctions in a statement on Thursday. They target Solomy Balungi Bossa<\/strong> of Uganda<\/strong>, Luz del Carmen Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez<\/strong> Carranza<\/strong> of Peru<\/strong>, Reine Adelaide Sophie Alapini-Gansou<\/strong> of Benin<\/strong> and Beti Hohler<\/strong> of Slovenia<\/strong>.
Donald Trump<\/strong> ordered cabinet officials to draw up sanctions against the ICC <\/a>after the court issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, <\/a>Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a><\/strong>, and former defense minister Yoav Gallant<\/strong>. They were accused of overseeing an Israeli offensive during the Gaza<\/strong> conflict that caused famine and included the commission of war crimes.
Two of the sanctioned judges authorised the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, and two authorised an ICC investigation into abuses by US personnel in Afghanistan<\/strong>.
\u201cAs ICC judges, these four individuals have actively engaged in the ICC\u2019s illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America or our close ally, Israel,\u201d Rubio said. \u201cThe ICC is politicized and falsely claims unfettered discretion to investigate, charge, and prosecute nationals of the United States and our allies. This dangerous assertion and abuse of power infringes upon the sovereignty and national security of the United States and our allies, including Israel.\u201d
The decision to move forward with the sanctions will escalate Trump\u2019s feud with the court and other international organisations, which he has broadly dismissed as politicised.
As the simmering tensions between Donald Trump<\/strong> and his once top adviser, the billionaire Elon Musk<\/strong>, erupted into public view on Thursday<\/a>, eyes turned to the Republican lawmakers still weighing whether to pass the president\u2019s so-called \u201cBig, Beautiful Bill\u201d<\/strong>.
It was approved by just a single vote in the House of Representatives<\/a><\/strong> with no Democratic support last month, and nonpartisan analysts have found the sweeping legislation could add a whopping $2.4tn-$5tn to the $36.2tn US national debt<\/a> and make deep cuts to Medicaid<\/strong> and food-assistance programs<\/strong>. Seen as an outline of Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica first\u201d agenda, the bill would also extend tax cuts, fund beefed-up immigration enforcement and impose new work requirements for enrollees of federal safety net programs.
In a barrage of tweets over its cost, which Musk warned would undo Doge<\/strong>\u2019s efforts to save the government money by cancelling programs and pushing federal workers out of their jobs, the billionaire called on conservatives to withdraw their support for the bill.
Along with personal barbs aimed at Trump \u2013 including trumpeting support for his impeachment and signaling the president\u2019s ties to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/strong> \u2013 Musk spent Thursday afternoon re-posting years-old quotes from the House speaker Mike Johnson<\/a><\/strong> and the Senate<\/strong> leader John Thune<\/strong>, when the Republican lawmakers spoke critically of federal debt.
Musk\u2019s intense withdrawal of support for the administration has magnified a rift in the Republican party that was already threatening the bill\u2019s passage in the Senate.
While the Senate\u2019s Republican leaders have shown no indication that they share Musk\u2019s concerns, they are eyeing changes to some aspects of the measure that were the result of hard-fought negotiations in the House, and could throw its prospects into jeopardy.
Tesla<\/strong>\u2019s shares dropped by about 14.2% <\/strong>on Thursday at market close, wiping roughly $152bn off the value of the company as a feud between Elon Musk<\/strong> and Donald Trump<\/strong> erupted into public view. The former political allies<\/a> traded threats and insults through posts on their respective social media platforms throughout the afternoon as the company\u2019s price fell.
Trump suggested on Truth Social that he could cut Musk\u2019s government subsidies and contracts, of which both Tesla<\/a> and SpaceX<\/strong> have been immense beneficiaries. Musk meanwhile threatened to decommission the SpaceX spacecraft that Nasa<\/strong> relies on for transport missions, called for Trump\u2019s impeachment, derided the president\u2019s signature tariffs and accused him of being affiliated with the notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/strong>. Musk said late Thursday evening his company will not decommission its spacecraft.
The decline in Tesla\u2019s share price on Thursday knocked about $8.73bn off Musk\u2019s total net worth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index<\/a>. The reported $152bn drop<\/a> also decreased the value of the company to roughly $900bn.
Elon Musk<\/strong> called for Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s impeachment and mocked his connections to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/strong>, as the US president threatened to cancel federal contracts and tax subsidies for Musk\u2019s companies, in an extraordinary social media feud that erupted between the former allies on Thursday.
The deterioration of their once close relationship into bitter acrimony came over the course of several remarkable hours during which the president and the world\u2019s richest person hurled deeply personal insults over matters significant and insignificant.
The direct shots at Trump were the latest twist in the public showdown over a Republican spending bill that Musk had criticized. Trump and Musk had been careful not to hit each other directly, but on Thursday the pair discarded restraint as the feud escalated on their respective social media platforms.
In the most churlish moment of the astonishing saga, Musk said on X the reason the Trump administration<\/a> had not released the files into Epstein was because they implicated the president. He later quote-tweeted a post calling for Trump to be removed and said Trump\u2019s tariffs would cause a recession.
\u201cTime to drop the really big bomb: Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!\u201d Musk wrote, after Trump threatened to cut subsidies for Musk\u2019s companies as it would save \u201cbillions\u201d.
It was a bizarre drama that served to underscore the degree to which Trump and Musk\u2019s relationship has been one of mutual convenience, despite the White House<\/strong> claiming for months that they were simply ideologically aligned.
It also caused the rightwing writer Ashley St Clair<\/strong>, who gave birth to Musk\u2019s 14th known child and sued Musk for child support, to weigh in. \u201cLet me know if u need any breakup advice,\u201d she posted on X, tagging Trump.
A district judge in Boston<\/strong> has blocked the Trump administration\u2019s ban on Harvard\u2019s international students from entering the United States<\/strong> after the Ivy League university argued the move was illegal.
Harvard had asked the judge, Allison Burrough<\/strong>, to block the ban, pending further litigation, arguing Trump<\/strong> had violated federal law by failing to back up his claims that the students posed a threat to national security.
\u201cThe Proclamation denies thousands of Harvard\u2019s students the right to come to this country to pursue their education and follow their dreams, and it denies Harvard the right to teach them. Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard,\u201d the school said in a filing to the judge.
The filing also argued that the national security argument was flawed as the ban did not stop the same people from entering the country, it only barred them from entering to attend Harvard.
Harvard amended its earlier lawsuit, which it had filed amid a broader dispute with the Republican president, to challenge the ban, which Trump issued on Wednesday<\/a> in a proclamation.
White House<\/strong> spokesperson Abigail Jackson<\/strong> earlier called Harvard \u201ca hotbed of anti-American, antisemitic, pro-terrorist agitators\u201d, claims that the school has previously denied.
\u201cHarvard\u2019s behavior has jeopardized the integrity of the entire US student and exchange visitor visa system and risks compromising national security. Now it must face the consequences of its actions,\u201d Jackson said in a statement.
The suspension was intended to be initially for six months but can be extended. Trump\u2019s proclamation also directs the state department to consider revoking academic or exchange visas of any current Harvard students who meet his proclamation\u2019s criteria.
Maanvi Singh<\/a><\/strong>, an immigration reporter for Guardian US, has written about how Trump\u2019s travel ban <\/strong>comes as little surprise amid barrage of draconian restrictions.
You can read Singh\u2019s analysis here:
President Trump<\/strong>\u2019s signature \u201cBig Beautiful Bill\u201d<\/strong> has precipitated an epic fallout between the US president and one of his closest allies, billionaire Elon Musk<\/a><\/strong>.
The blowup played out publicly on social media<\/a>, with both men using their respective platforms, X and Truth Social, to exchange criticisms.
Here is a summary of how the rift unfolded, and what we know so far:
US president Donald Trump<\/strong> told Politico, \u201cOh it\u2019s OK,\u201d and, \u201cIt\u2019s going very well, never done better,\u201d when asked about his public breakup with billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk<\/strong>, the news outlet reported on Thursday.
White House aides have scheduled a call on Friday with Musk to broker a peace, Politico reported.
On Thursday, Trump and Musk escalated their disagreement about the US budget bill<\/strong> into a big public argument on social media. When asked about Musk\u2019s criticism of his \u201cBig, Beautiful Bill\u201d, the US president told reporters:
<\/path><\/svg>Elon and I had a great relationship. I don\u2019t know if we will any more.
Trump also said he was \u201cvery disappointed in Elon\u201d.
In return, Musk published a flurry of posts that stepped up his feud with the president and went on to claim that without him Trump would have <\/em>\u201clost the election\u201d before bemoaning what he called \u201csuch ingratitude\u201d.
Meanwhile, a district judge in Boston<\/strong> has blocked the Trump administration\u2019s ban on Harvard\u2019s international students from entering the United States<\/strong> after the Ivy League university argued the move was illegal.
Harvard had asked the judge, Allison Burrough<\/strong>, to block the ban, pending further litigation, arguing Trump had violated federal law by failing to back up his claims that the students posed a threat to national security.<\/p>\n

More on both of these stories in a moment, but first, here are some other key developments:
Musk also suggested Trump should be impeached and that JD Vance should replace Trump<\/strong>, warning that Trump\u2019s global tariffs would \u201ccause a recession in the second half of this year\u201d and claimed Trump was in the Jeffrey Epstein files<\/a>.
The White House described the Epstein assertions as an \u201cunfortunate episode\u201d, <\/strong>in a statement to CNN.
Meanwhile, Steve Bannon, a longtime Trump<\/a> ally and Elon Musk critic, suggested there were grounds to deport the tech billionaire, who has US citizenship. <\/strong>Bannon told the New York Times: \u201cThey should initiate a formal investigation of his immigration status because I am of the strong belief that he is an illegal alien, and he should be deported from the country immediately.\u201d
Poland\u2019s foreign minister poked fun at Musk late on Thursday, returning to a social media spat from March after the Tesla and SpaceX boss spectacularly fell out with Trump. <\/strong>Warsaw\u2019s top diplomat Radoslaw Sikorski found himself embroiled in an extraordinarily public clash with Musk and US secretary of state Marco Rubio in March after he said Ukraine may need an alternative to the Starlink satellite service.
Trump\u2019s pick to be the next US surgeon general has repeatedly said the nation\u2019s medical, health and food systems are corrupted by special interests and people out to make a profit at the expense of Americans\u2019 health. <\/strong>Yet as Casey Means has criticized scientists, medical schools and regulators for taking money from the food and pharmaceutical industries, she has promoted dozens of health and wellness products \u2013 including specialty basil seed supplements, a blood testing service and a prepared meal delivery service \u2013 in ways that put money in her own pocket. A review by The Associated Press found Means, who has carved out a niche in the wellness industry, set up deals with an array of businesses.<\/p>\n

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