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Tech mogul Elon Musk suggested that President Trump should be impeached and replaced with Vice President JD Vance after an explosive, bitter rift erupted between the two billionaires

Thursday.

Musk responded to a post from right-wing pundit Ian Miles Cheong, with whom the Tesla and SpaceX CEO frequently interacts on social media, and agreed with his assessment that the GOP

president should be ousted.

“President vs Elon. Who wins? My money’s on Elon. Trump should be impeached and JD Vance should replace him,” Cheong wrote on X.

The broadside came after Musk sniped that the Trump administration wasn’t releasing documents related to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein because the president would be mentioned — and

potentially implicated — in them.

After the tech mogul began going nuclear on the president over his concerns regarding the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Trump had accused Musk of going “crazy” and indicated he had been

“wearing thin” in the White House for some time.

“I don’t mind Elon turning against me, but he should have done so months ago,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, later adding: “I didn’t create this mess, I’m just here to FIX IT.”

Trump was impeached twice during his first term in office, but was acquitted by the Senate on both occasions. 

The collapse of the alliance between Trump and Musk played out in real time on social media, where the South Africa-born billionaire had proudly proclaimed in February: “I love Donald Trump

as much as a straight man can love another man.”

Six days earlier, Trump had welcomed Musk into the Oval Office for a chummy public send-off as the tech billionaire’s time as a special government employee concluded. 

Trump, 78, mused at the time that Musk, 53, was “not really leaving” and would continue to informally assist the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cost-cutting initiative. 

But Musk has loosed a torrent of abuse in recent days over the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which the Congressional Budget Office projects will increase the deficit by approximately $3

trillion over the next decade. 

On Tuesday, Musk bashed the megabill as an “abomination” and demanded Wednesday that lawmakers “KILL the BILL.”

Thursday brought a public meltdown in response to a relatively gentle rebuke from Trump.

“Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate,” Musk groused on X at one point. 

“Oh and some food for thought as they ponder this question,” Musk warned Republicans in a separate message. “Trump has 3.5 years left as President, but I will be around for 40+ years …”  

After Trump suggested he’d sever public subsidies to Musk’s companies, the billionaire said he would begin “decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately,” threatening to cut off the US

government’s primary method of sending humans into orbit. 

Republicans are hoping to get the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to Trump’s desk by the Fourth of July.