The most high-profile bromance the world has ever seen has been experiencing a rocky patch.

Not since Pompey and Caesar or Liam and Noel (does it count though if they are actually brothers, and thinking about it never liked each other that much anyway?) have we seen such an earth-shattering implosion of a fraternal relationship as the recent demise of that between the world’s most powerful man and the world’s richest.

It’s true – 2024/25’s greatest buddy cop comedy, Donny and ‘Lonny, is in limbo, with US President Donald Trump and Tesla/X overlord Elon Musk having cut ties (at least for now) after the social media row of the century.

Many expected this to happen, and, indeed, in exactly the spectacularly theatrical fashion in which it did.

Musk has since issued a grovelling apology to Trump, but can things be repaired?

Boys will be boys. However, when their toys and teddies are as big as this, the rest of us can’t perhaps help starting to feel a little unnerved when things begin to be thrown out of the pram.

Aside from such concerns, this latest pantomime has had me thinking about a few of the bromances I’ve been proud to share over the years, and how, happily, these have never crumbled like a proverbial house of........

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