How it started

President Trump was peeved.

Just minutes before he walked into the Oval Office for a televised send-off for Elon Musk last week, an aide had handed him a file.

The papers showed that Mr. Trump’s nominee to run NASA — a close associate of Mr. Musk’s — had donated to prominent Democrats in recent years, including some who Mr. Trump was learning about for the first time.

The president set his outrage aside and mustered through a cordial public farewell. But as soon as the cameras left the Oval Office, the president confronted Mr. Musk. He started to read some of the donations out loud, shaking his head.

This was not good, the president said.

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While the relationship had been losing steam over the past several months as Mr. Musk clashed with Trump officials, people close to both men said the disagreement over Mr. Isaacman accelerated the breakup.

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Mr. Musk had been planning to exit the White House relatively quietly — before Mr. Isaacman’s ouster left him feeling humiliated.

Now the two men, who seemed inseparable at one point, are on opposite sides. Mr. Musk suggested Mr. Trump should be impeached. Mr. Trump has threatened to cancel government contracts with Mr. Musk’s companies.

Mr. Trump, who was briefed on a New York Times article about Mr. Musk’s drug use, told associates that Mr. Musk’s “crazy” behavior was linked to his drug use.

For Mr. Musk, there were few positions across the thousands in the federal government that mattered more to him than the head of NASA, because of its critical importance to SpaceX, his rocket business. So it was of great personal benefit to Mr. Musk when Mr. Trump chose Mr. Isaacman, who has flown to space twice with SpaceX, to oversee the agency.

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"President Trump is the unequivocal leader of the Republican Party, and the vast majority of the country approves of his job performance as president,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said in a statement. “Inflation is down, consumer confidence and wages are up, the jobs report beat expectations for the third month in a row, the border is secure and America is hotter than ever before.”

  NYT

Ha! That explains this nonsensical bleat:

 Effing idiot.

White House officials said Friday that Mr. Trump was considering selling the bright red Tesla he got in March as a show of support for Mr. Musk.

Sad.