Overview

• President Trump declared his relationship with Musk over and warned of “serious consequences” if Musk backs Democrats or continues to criticize his policies.
• Musk publicly branded the tax and spending legislation a “widerliche Abscheulichkeit” that would balloon U.S. debt and deleted a post suggesting Trump appears in the Epstein files.
• On his platform X, Musk briefly claimed Trump’s name was in the Jeffrey Epstein documents before removing the allegation amid public uproar.
• Russian Duma member Dmitri Novikov and former President Dmitri Medvedev floated asylum and mediation offers for Musk as his father lauded Putin at a Moscow forum.
• Experts warn that Trump’s threat to cut SpaceX and Tesla contracts and subsidies could jeopardize Starlink service to Ukraine and critical U.S. space operations.