The breakup between the world’s most powerful politician and the world’s richest man is playing out in a manner befitting an era of hyperreality: with stunning speed, wild recriminations, and in public via television and their own social media platforms. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, who just last week stood together in the Oval Office to proclaim their lasting friendship, traded barbs and insults in real time on Thursday. Proclamations of sadness, ingratitude and disappointment by the men soon devolved into an exchange of threats.
Senior Editor Bill Faries joins Caroline Hepker and Tom Mackenzie on Bloomberg Radio to discuss what happened and why it mattered. (Source: Bloomberg)
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