Donald Trump and Elon Musk appear to be done.
And on Thursday, personalities on conservative Fox News processed the online blowup between the president and his former “first buddy” (as Musk once referred to himself) in various different ways.
Will Cain appeared somber as he suggested it is “hard to see a path forward for these two to repair their relationship” after Musk last week left his role leading Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency and then almost immediately slammed the president’s proposed spending bill.
“This is not a story that anyone was looking for,” Cain added. “Perhaps somewhat predictable with two big personalities, but not a story that we wanted today for America.”
Sean Hannity, a vocal supporter of Trump who has campaigned onstage with the president, suggested the only real difference the duo had was over the bill.
Hannity predicted they’d become friends again and expressed his hope that “they work it out and set an example for the rest of the country.”
Jesse Watters also downplayed the feud, saying: “Sometimes guys fight. Guys sometimes will punch you in the face and the next night you’re having a beer. Sleep with your girlfriend and you patch things up.”
Trump and Musk “are like roommates,” he added. “They were living in close quarters for like the first six months of the year. They’re just blowing off steam.”
Laura Ingraham suggested Trump should “simply disengage” from the feud.
Musk “is his own person” and his companies’ government contracts “shouldn’t be called into question” as Trump has now done, she added.
Greg Gutfeld said: “I don’t like it. I want it to stop. I want to tell them, if they are both watching: ‘Knock it off. We’re done with this.’”
And Trump first-term White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany described it as “a sad thing to see.”
“I don’t want to see the adults fighting,” she said. “But I do think this was predictable.”