Elon Musk said that wielding a chainsaw at CPAC "lacked empathy." "Milei gave me the chainsaw backstage and I ran with it," he wrote on X. Musk is now in a deadlock with Trump over the president's big spending bill. Elon Musk said that brandishing a chainsaw onstage in February probably wasn't such a good idea.

Elon Musk’s feud with President Donald Trump has reignited, with the tech billionaire threatening to launch a new political party and Trump suggesting Musk could be punished for his opposition.

The feud between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk is still on the front-burner — with Trump saying he will “take a look” at whether the U.S. will deport the South African-born tech billionaire. Trump and Musk were one-time close political allies before they had a major rift over the Trump-backed congressional spending bill,