People have been left stunned by how quickly US President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk went from being on good terms to publicly feuding on social media

Nine News US correspondent Johnathan Kearsley says the two’s relationship appeared to have deteriorated in a matter of days.

“It all started because he’s [Musk] angry over Donald Trump’s spending plans, essentially because that spending plan has a tax incentive for people to buy electric vehicles, that’s going to be scrapped,” he said.

Musk, in a tweet, alleged Trump was holding off on releasing the Epstein files because the President was named in the files.

The owner of X did not provide any evidence of this claim, and no public evidence backs this claim.

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