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Musk Feud Overshadows Wild Week for Trump’s Foreign Policy

Get caught up.

US President Donald Trump, right, and Elon Musk, in happier times, a week ago.

Photographer: Francis Chung/Politico

The war of words between two of the world’s most powerful men has — as of now — calmed down. Elon Musk signaled there could be a cooling-off period between him and US President Donald Trump, hours after after saying he would end use of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft. This assumption is based off the following exchange.

“This is a shame this back and forth. You are both better than this. Cool off and take a step back for a couple days,” an X user who had just 200 followers on the platform wrote in reply to Musk’s post about Dragon.