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The post-fight fallout from Trump-Musk battle could get even uglier Show Caption Hide Caption Six takeaways from the President Donald Trump, Elon Musk feud From disappointment to threats, here are six takeaways from the public spat between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. WASHINGTON – If you think the thermonuclear blowout between President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk was bad, wait until the asset-splitting part of the divorce gets underway. The battle royale between the world's most powerful man and its richest inhabitant appears to be mostly over, save for some residual skirmishing on the social media platforms separately owned by Trump and Musk. Neither man can convincingly declare himself a winner in the dissolution of a partnership so mutually beneficial that it helped propel one to the White House and the other to even more ungodly amounts of wealth in the form of government contracts and regulatory relief. 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The tech billionaire has also conducted one of his rhetorically slanted polls on X to see how many people want a third political party 'that actually represents the 80% in the middle' between the Republican and Democratic parties. Its results, pinned to the top of Musk's X profile, were predictably in favor of it, 80.4% to 19.6%. Those kinds of broadsides could be a particularly powerful cudgel against Trump just five months into his second term. Musk could also wield a political tactic he's used to help Trump in the past, but this time, financing opponents of his political candidates in the upcoming mid-term elections. A win-win for both Trump and Musk? Heye said that despite all the incendiary rhetoric, there's still room for reconciliation or even a public recoupling. Heye, the veteran GOP official, cited the case of Reince Priebus, Trump's former White House Chief of Staff, who found out Trump fired him on a rainy airport Tarmac in 2017 after traveling with the President on Air Force One. Priebus was forced to find his own way home, Heye said, but soon found himself back in Trump's good graces. 'A relationship with Donald Trump going south is not something new in this political world,' Heye said. 'But Donald Trump always allows people to come back if they say the right things.' Already, Musk has appeared to back down from his threat of taking his Dragon spacecraft out of operation, after an X poster told him, "This is a shame this back and forth. You are both better than this. Cool off and take a step back for a couple days." In response, Musk replied late Thursday, "Good advice. Ok, we won't decommission Dragon."
