BROMANCIPATION

Messy breakups are the worst… unless it’s two people you despise! Just look at what’s happening with Donald Trump and Elon Musk right now. They’re, like, soooo done.

• It feels like we’ve entered a parallel universe. Just a few days ago, gazillionaire Elon Musk was standing in the Oval Office, accepting a gold key  to the White House from the fawning orange president and complimenting his haughty interior design skills. Today, Elon and President Donald Trump seem to be officially calling off their bromance — in front of the entire world. “Elon and I had a great relationship,” Trump told reporters. “I don’t know if we will anymore.”

• What sparked these high school hysterics? Elon hates the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” for several self-serving reasons, as we broke down yesterday. The president, in turn, got angry that his buddy described the bill, which would cut taxes for the ultra-wealthy, as a “disgusting abomination.” But relationships don’t usually combust over one disagreement. This is a battle of two massive, fragile egos squaring up like “Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla.”

• “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!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Elon was ‘wearing thin,’ I asked him to leave… and he just went CRAZY!” Musk’s response: “Such an obvious lie. So sad.”

After Trump bashed him, Elon bodyslammed the president in a series of tweets — and crossed a major red line.

• “Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate. Such ingratitude,” Musk wrote. “Trump has 3.5 years left as President, but I will be around for 40+ years,” he said in another post. Later, he suggested that Trump should be impeached. Tesla stock tumbled 14 percent during the spat.

• But Musk’s most eye-poppingly brutal line of attack was… “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public,” he tweeted. That’s a touchy topic in MAGAworld, after Attorney General Pam Bondi didn’t follow through  on a promise to release new information about financier Jeffrey Epstein’s death — and the sprawling network of elites who were buddies with the child sex offender. Epstein once told a journalist that he “was Donald Trump’s closest friend.”

• Lawmakers are in a tricky spot. In this MAGAMania championship fight, do they side with the richest man in the world, or the most powerful man in the world? Musk shelled out more than $250 million to Trump’s presidential campaign and pledged to support  Republicans in the midterms — but he also said he’d “fire” those who he doesn’t like.

• But not all Republicans are worried: “Honestly I think it’s more entertaining than anything,” one Senate GOP aide told me.

So far, this food fight has attracted the craziest of crazies: Kanye West, Alex Jones and Laura Loomer, to name a few. And now… Steve Bannon wants Elon deported!

THAT’S BANANAS

Donald Trump’s henchmen have some interesting hobbies. FBI Director Kash Patel writes right-wing children’s books. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy enjoys messing with roadkill. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum loves listening to Keith Urban.

And Acting FEMA Director David Richardson… is a painter?

Richardson has come under fire recently for telling staffers that he didn’t know hurricane season was a thing — a day after hurricane season began. (The White House claims Richardson was joking.) He also didn’t know that FEMA responds to volcanoes, What A Day reported. His experience in the Marines, and later in a government post countering weapons of mass destruction, doesn’t seem to be translating into this new role.

But that background has inspired much of his artwork, which ranges from colorfully abstract — even resembling a Radiohead album cover  — to oddly modern, with black and white portraits of Snoop Dogg, Marilyn Monroe and Amy Winehouse. He’s also super influenced by Homer’s “Iliad,” according to a New York Times profile.

Richardson’s mother taught him to paint from an early age, and his brother is a sculptor and painter in Germany. He has also auctioned off his work to support veterans with PTSD.

“His work exists at the fault lines of love, war, chaos, religion, celebrity, fantasy, fear, and oblivion,” Richardson’s website states. In a 2019 Q&A, he compared art to war: “Anyone who paints will tell you that the act of painting can feel like battle: aggressive, emotional, nerve-wracking, exhausting.”

Many artists start their career by painting stills of fruit. Maybe this explains why he uses bizarre orange and banana metaphors to try to explain what FEMA does?

NEWS NEWS NEWS

Israeli troops recovered the bodies of an American-Israeli couple who were killed by a Palestinian militant group (not affiliated with Hamas) in October 2023 and taken into Gaza. Of the 258 hostages Hamas took, Israel believes 20 are still alive and remain captive.

The Trump administration will hold more talks with China about trade issues following a “very good” 90-minute call between Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Trump announced today. China’s readout of the call made it clear that Trump requested the call with Xi — suggesting that Trump’s the one who really wants to smooth over their tariff war.

Trump launched an investigation into whether former President Joe Biden’s aides tried to cover up his alleged mental decline. Trump baselessly claimed that Biden’s aides used an autopen to sign official documents. There’s no evidence that’s the case, and the Justice Department has always found autopens valid  when POTUS is calling the shots. “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency,” said Biden, in a statement to  Politico. “Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.”

Trump is considering building his presidential library on the campus of Florida Atlantic University, which has offered him a 100-year lease for free. This is supposedly where visitors would get to see his $400 million super luxury jumbo jet from Qatar — if he doesn’t fly away with it into the sunset.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) endorsed democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral race. The 33-year-old candidate is polling in second place behind former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “The difference between myself and Andrew Cuomo is that my campaign is not funded by the very billionaires who put Donald Trump in D.C.,” Mamdani said during last night’s debate. Cuomo responded: “He’s been in government 27 minutes.

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