Elon Musk is calling for President Donald Trump's impeachment as the two men's breakup reaches new heights.
"Yes," Musk posted on his social media platform X in response to another user who wrote "President vs Elon. Who wins? My money's on Elon. Trump should be impeached and JD Vance should replace him."
Musk, not long after his very public falling out with President Donald Trump, asked followers on his X social media platform whether he should create a new political party.
"Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80 percent in the middle?" Musk asked his more than 220 million followers on X.
He later claimed the president was "in the Epstein files" and that is the "real reason" those records have not been publicly released, without providing any evidence of where his information was coming from.
Musk did not detail how we would have gained access to unreleased files. CNN has reached out to the White House for a response.
Musk has used online polls in the past before making major decisions, including stepping aside as Twitter chief executive, and whether he should reinstate previously banned accounts, including Trump's.
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Trump appeared to confirm the deterioration of his relationship with Musk, saying he was "very disappointed" in the tech billionaire, who exited his top advisory role at the White House and subsequently railed against the president's sweeping tax and spending package.
"Elon and I had a great relationship. I don't know if we will anymore," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office less than one week after the two exchanged effusive praise on Musk's last day.
Since then, Musk has strongly criticized what Trump calls his "Big, Beautiful Bill" that has passed the House and faces an uncertain path forward in the Senate, calling the bill, which is a major Trump priority, a "disgusting abomination." Trump and Musk have not spoken since Musk lashed out at the legislation, a source familiar with the dynamic told CNN.
"He knew every aspect of this bill. He knew it better than almost anybody, and he never had a problem until right after he left," Trump said.
The president predicted that though Musk had not personally attacked him, he could soon.
Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 5, 2025
"I'm sure that'll be next. But I'm very disappointed in Elon. I've helped Elon a lot," Trump said.
Trump floated terminating Elon Musk's companies' government subsidies and contracts as a way of saving money, intensifying the two billionaires' feud on Thursday.
"The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn't do it," the president wrote on Truth Social.
Minutes earlier, Trump wrote that he'd asked Musk to leave the White House, and claimed the Tesla chief executive "just went CRAZY!"
"Elon was 'wearing thin,' I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY," the president said. (There has never been a federal mandate that prohibited Americans from buying gasoline-powered cars.)
Tesla shares plummet
Tesla shares plummeted 15 percent this afternoon as Elon Musk's battle with President Donald Trump intensified.
Trump threatened in a social media post to target Musk's business empire.
"The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The Tesla selloff has wiped off more than $150 billion off the market value of Telsa, which started the day worth nearly $1.1 trillion.
It has also erased a chunk off the net worth of Musk, the world's richest person.
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