Musk-Trump Feud May Be as Destructive as Their Friendship

Relationship Status: It's complicated.

- Bloomberg

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: IT'S complicated.

The simmering feud between President Donald Trump and tech titan Elon Musk has gone public, sending Tesla's stock tumbling then rebounding, calling his government contracts into question, and leaving Trump possibly in a more commanding position over the world's richest man.

But really, who knows what to make of this always-odd pairing between two erratic men?

Late last Thursday, Musk signaled he was open to a detente. Reports of a Friday phone call surfaced and were then dismissed by Trump, and all against the backdrop of pleadings from a Make America Great Again world riven by the prospect of their leaders turning on each other. Yet little is permanent in Trump world, except for chaos and disruption.

Where this goes from here and how it ends is anyone's guess, but what's clear is that the political friendship that saw two of the world's most powerful men attached at the hip at the beginning of Trump's presidency has now become an unstable mess.

This, of course, is no way to run a country.