The world's richest man navigates a treacherous period, marked by an insult-filled public feud with Donald Trump, a figure he significantly helped return to the White House.

Musk in response threatened to decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, but later walked it back. The feud began over Musk’s displeasure with the Trump-backed “big, beautiful bill,” which cleared the House last month. The bill would cut electric vehicle credits and could hurt his other company, Tesla.

Bill Gates reportedly made a quiet visit to the White House on Friday to urge Secretary of State Marco Rubio to reconsider the proposed cuts to foreign aid under the DOGE program.

Elon Musk is continuing his attacks on President Donald Trump's signature bill on Wednesday with a barrage of posts on X slamming the megabill, saying in one that no one "should be able to stomach it," while another instructed his more than 200 million followers to call members of Congress to "KILL the BILL."

Musk says he hates the bill because it is expected to drive up the deficit by nearly $4 trillion. But, as White House sources have been quick to tell reporters over the last 24 hours, there are other reasons why the billionaire Tesla CEO is lashing out. As one source put it simply to Axios, “Elon was butthurt.”

One particularly troubling example involves funding for a hospital in Gaza province, Mozambique. Gates claims Musk cancelled financial support for a facility that was helping prevent HIV transmission from mothers to children due to a geographic misunderstanding—Musk apparently confused this African province with the Middle Eastern Gaza Strip.

Elon Musk is lashing out at Bill Gates after the Microsoft co-founder accused him of endangering the lives of vulnerable children worldwide by pushing to dismantle the US foreign aid apparatus.

Elon Musk called out Bill Gates' past association with Jeffrey Epstein. Elon Musk torched Bill Gates at the Qatar Economic Forum, calling him out for his close ties with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein ...

In one corner is the bespectacled tortoise, Bill Gates. In the other, the chainsaw-wielding hare, Elon Musk. Each has a very different idea about what it means to give back. Gates plans to ramp up ...