In battle of billionaire egos, Trump-Musk bromance was always doomed [Video]

It hurts to say it, but Elon Musk is right.

Mr. Musk, you just might have heard, is locked in a furious quarrel with Donald Trump. Until recently, the world’s richest man and the world’s most powerful one were enthusiastic members of a mutual admiration society. Mr. Musk spent almost US$300-million supporting Mr. Trump and his fellow Republicans in the 2024 election campaign. Once Mr. Trump was returned to office, he made the billionaire one of his closest advisers.

When Mr. Musk’s association with the Trump administration proved to be burning down his electric-vehicle business, the President of the United States of America even put a bunch of Teslas on display at the White House, climbing into one and exclaiming, “Wow!” Mr. Musk joked that he had become “first buddy.”

It was never going to last. There is only room in the White House for one obnoxious egomaniac. The only questions were when and how the bromance was …