“For once, President Donald Trump was trying to be the adult in the room,” The Atlantic reports.

“Trump and Elon Musk, two billionaires with massive egos and combustible temperaments, had forged an unlikely friendship over the past year, one built on proximity, political expediency, and, yes, a touch of genuine warmth. Relations between the president and his top benefactor had grown somewhat strained in recent weeks, as Trump began to feel that Musk had overstayed his welcome in the West Wing. Musk had suggested privately that he could stay on at the White House, an offer that Trump gently declined… But Musk was still given a gracious send-off last Friday—complete with a large golden, albeit ceremonial, key—aimed at keeping the mercurial tech baron more friend than foe.”

“The peace didn’t last even a week.”

Wired: “While Elon Musk and Donald Trump post through their breakup, DOGE shows no signs of slowing down—and potential recruits are being told they can make up to $195,000 a year.”

“Just a few months ago, investors were willing to massively increase the valuations of Elon Musk’s companies, in part because of his proximity to Donald Trump and the centers of Washington power. That ended yesterday,” Axios reports.

“Markets and private investors attributed literally hundreds of billions of dollars of value to the idea that Musk’s privileged access would flow to the success of Tesla, SpaceX, xAI and the like.”

“Investors will now potentially have to reprice a Musk empire at odds with Trump as opposed to at his side.”

“Damian Williams, the former top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, is leaving the law firm Paul Weiss to join Jenner & Block, defecting from a firm that struck a deal with the Trump administration to sign on with one that fought it in court,” the Washington Post reports.