The perfect alliance was hiding perfect fractures. In the seven days between Elon Musk's White House farewell and their explosive public war, the Trump-Musk partnership was quietly disintegrating. Behind closed doors, cabinet members were calling Musk "a fraud." A humiliated White House aide was plotting revenge. And Trump was systematically dismantling policies Musk had fought to protect. When Musk finally called Trump's signature bill "a disgusting abomination," it wasn't a sudden breakdown—it was the inevitable result of months of personal slights, policy betrayals, and wounded egos. The crack that would soon become a chasm.

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