Trump, Musk relationship implodes in public bitterness

The relationship between President Trump and Elon Musk rapidly disintegrated Thursday, fulfilling predictions of a messy breakup that the world’s most powerful person and its richest person had defied for months.

Trump told reporters in an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that he was “very surprised” and “very disappointed” in Musk, who spent millions of dollars to help Trump get elected and served in his administration for four months but has since mounted a...