This week’s rapid, unscheduled disassembly of Elon Musk’s bromance with Donald Trump has left officials at America’s space and security agencies reeling.
One NASA official, wary of the agency’s dependence on SpaceX as the space exploration industry’s leading recipient of government contracts, said the bitter public feud between the president and the former DOGE chief had at first been “entertaining” but that later, “it turned really terrifying,” per the Washington Post.
Musk and Trump’s falling out was received with similar horror at the Pentagon, the Post’s report continued where officials initially thought it was “funny” watching the pair trade barbs on their respective social media sites before “there was a realization that we’re not watching TV. This is a real issue.”
Read more at The Daily Beast.
