{"id":30975,"date":"2025-06-06T18:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T16:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/?p=30975"},"modified":"2025-06-06T18:50:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T16:50:24","slug":"trump-and-musk-bromance-ends-in-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/2025\/06\/06\/trump-and-musk-bromance-ends-in-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Musk’s bromance ends in tears"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Governance expert, Professor Sam Koma, says the public ‘breakup’ of US President, Donald Trump, and South African-born billionaire, Elon Musk, has the potential to weaken the political influence and power that Trump has particularly within the Republicans.<\/p>\n

Trump and Elon, who were once allies in the lead up to last year’s US elections, have been at each other’s throats since Thursday, hurling insults at each other on social media.<\/p>\n

The fallout comes just days after Musk resigned as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, allegedly in protest of the tax-and-spending bill, which he has described as an outrageous and disgusting abomination.<\/p>\n

He says the controversial bill will add to the United States’ budget deficit and leave cash-strapped Americans with more debt.<\/p>\n

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This spending bill contains the largest increase in the debt ceiling in US history!<\/p>\n

It is the Debt Slavery Bill. https:\/\/t.co\/7EEyUEha1q<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trump has been left perplexed by Musk’s response to the piece of legislation that’s packed with multi-trillion-dollar tax breaks. The US President has hailed the proposed law as a big, beautiful bill.<\/p>\n

Professor Koma says Musk is now likely to influence Trump’s impeachment.<\/p>\n\t

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