{"id":19109,"date":"2025-06-10T13:37:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/unstoppable-force-loses-battle-with-immovable-object-elon-bows-to-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:37:45","slug":"unstoppable-force-loses-battle-with-immovable-object-elon-bows-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/unstoppable-force-loses-battle-with-immovable-object-elon-bows-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Unstoppable force loses battle with immovable object: Elon bows to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four days into a public feud between the world\u2019s most powerful person and the world\u2019s richest person, I declare Musk the loser<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk and Donald Trump are no longer friends. Tension between the two exploded into public view in the middle of last week, with each leveling sharp barbs at the other. Four days into the public feud between the world\u2019s most powerful person and the world\u2019s richest person, though, I declare Musk the loser. An unstoppable force has lost its battle with an immovable object.<\/p>\n<p>From my colleagues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jun\/05\/trump-elon-musk-fallout\">Hugo Lowell and Andrew Roth<\/a>:<em> On Thursday, Elon Musk called for Donald Trump\u2019s impeachment and mocked his connections to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as the US president threatened to cancel federal contracts and tax subsidies for Musk\u2019s companies, in an extraordinary social media feud that erupted between the former allies. The direct shots at Trump were the latest twist in the public showdown over a Republican spending bill that Musk had criticized.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jun\/09\/elon-musk-trump-fight-ai-movies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9f658cb4a7e53d6981f5d36ef4362f7f69735847\/355_0_3534_2829\/master\/3534.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a32f95d10b13e122ef36206fb389742d\" title=\"Unstoppable force loses battle with immovable object: Elon bows to Trump\" \/>Four days into a public feud between the world\u2019s most powerful person and the world\u2019s richest person, I declare Musk the loser<br \/>\nElon Musk and Donald Trump are no longer friends. Tension between the two exploded into public view in the middle of last week, with each leveling sharp barbs at the other. Four days into the public feud between the world\u2019s most powerful person and the world\u2019s richest person, though, I declare Musk the loser. An unstoppable force has lost its battle with an immovable object.<br \/>\nFrom my colleagues Hugo Lowell and Andrew Roth: On Thursday, Elon Musk called for Donald Trump\u2019s impeachment and mocked his connections to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as the US president threatened to cancel federal contracts and tax subsidies for Musk\u2019s companies, in an extraordinary social media feud that erupted between the former allies. The direct shots at Trump were the latest twist in the public showdown over a Republican spending bill that Musk had criticized. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four days into a public feud between the world\u2019s most powerful person and the world\u2019s richest person, I declare Musk the loser Elon Musk and Donald Trump are no longer friends. Tension between the two exploded into public view in the middle of last week, with each leveling sharp barbs at the other. Four days &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/unstoppable-force-loses-battle-with-immovable-object-elon-bows-to-trump\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unstoppable force loses battle with immovable object: Elon bows to Trump<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19109"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}