Tech billionaire Elon Musk backed a call to impeach President Trump on Thursday, one of the latest swipes at the president by the billionaire in an ongoing war of words between the former allies.
“President vs Elon. Who wins? My money’s on Elon. Trump should be impeached and JD Vance should replace him,” Ian Miles Cheong, a Malaysia-based right-wing writer, said in a Thursday afternoon post on Musk’s social platform X.
“Yes,” Musk said in response to Cheong’s post about 20 minutes later.
On Thursday, Trump and Musk’s relationship quickly fell apart in a very public way. In an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the president told reporters that he was “very surprised” and “very disappointed” in Musk, who has recently mounted a campaign against the president’s signature policy bill.
In response, Musk claimed on social media that he was behind the president’s November 2024 election victory. He also alleged in a midafternoon post on X that Trump had ties to convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.
“Time to drop the really big bomb,” Musk said in the X post. “[Trump] is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.”
“Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out,” Musk said in a subsequent post.
The Hill