Donald Trump and Elon Musk may have found their own personal "forever war," now that the world's most powerful man and the world's richest man have renewed their feud.

Trump, who has made retribution the central focus of his second term as president, is vowing to turn Musk's own wrecking machine – the inaccurately named Department of Government Efficiency – against Musk's many billions in federal contracts. And, being Trump, he also suggested just deporting the South African-born billionaire.

Musk, who has been lashing out at Trump and his Republican allies in Congress for the also inaccurately named "Big Beautiful Bill" that slashes health care for the working poor to preserve tax cuts for wealthiest Americans, is now drumming up interest in a new political party for some retribution of his own in next year's midterm elections.

It's getting pretty caustic. And that's not surprising, coming from two men who have always gone heavy on disdain and light on dignity. So you have to wonder, will Musk go there again? Will he drop another Epstein "bomb?"

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