The spectacular breakup of Donald Trump and Elon Musk could soon get far worse for the Tesla CEO—while doing little good for the U.S. president. Some political pundits have portrayed last week’s blowup as merely yet another exit by a disgruntled Trump ally.

The row between Elon Musk, the world's richest man, and U.S. President Donald Trump was triggered by stress on both sides and Elon made a mistake by publicly challenging Trump, Musk's father told Russian media in Moscow.

In early June 2025, a screenshot of an allegedly authentic X post from tech billionaire Elon Musk saying he "took" the wife of White House adviser Stephen Miller spread widely online. "Just like I took your wife," Musk purportedly said in response to an X post from Miller that said, "We will take back America."

Elon Musk was forced to correct the record on Sunday after his AI bot on X, known as “Grok,” was unable to decipher a fake post from a real one and spread misinformation that Musk claimed he “took” Stephen Miller ’s wife.

Elon Musk has been forced to rebuke Grok, his own AI chatbot integrated into X, after it falsely suggested the tech billionaire wrote a post saying he “took” the wife of Stephen Miller. On Sunday, Grok replied to a question on X asking whether the post from Musk appearing to mock the White House deputy chief of staff by stating “just like I took your wife” was genuine by suggesting it “likely existed and was deleted.