Elon Musk is considered a “friend and adviser” to Donald Trump, according to Vice President JD Vance, but the bromance may be tested following today's turn of events. In an interview with Italy’s League leader Matteo Salvin,

Tech-billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk made direct yet unsuccessful appeals to U.S. President Donald Trump to reverse tariffs over the past weekend, Washington Post reported on Monday citing two people familiar with the matter.

Over the weekend, as Elon Musk launched into a barrage of social media posts criticizing one of the lead White House advisers for President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff plan, Musk was going over that same official’s head — and making personal appeals to Trump.

Elon Musk may have bought himself influence over President Donald Trump’s administration, but public criticism of the president remains out of his budget. Instead — as the world braces for Trump’s tariff regime to go into effect at midnight on Tuesday — Musk is picking fights with a fellow presidential adviser: Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing Peter Navarro.

Elon Musk is letting people close to him know he’s very upset with the direction that this is going,” Joe Scarborough said Tuesday morning.

They ransacked federal agencies and axed jobs together, but President Donald Trump’s expanding tariffs are apparently too much for even right-hand man Elon Musk. So much so that Musk privately appealed to Trump to reverse the market-tanking measures in an “attempted intervention,