Donald Trump and Elon Musk bromance timeline: Pair appear together at US election campaign rally

At 1 of Mr Trump's predetermination run rallies connected Saturday (October 5), Mr Musk leaped astir connected signifier successful favour of the candidate.

During the quality with Mr Trump, the tech entrepreneur painted a bleak representation of the impending statesmanlike election, describing the Republican nominee arsenic the lone 1 “to sphere ideology successful America”.

At the event, which took spot astatine Butler, Pennsylvania, wherever the erstwhile president escaped an assassination effort successful July, Mr Musk wore a black-on-black headdress with the campaign's "Make America Great Again" spot connected it and claimed that "this volition beryllium the past election" if Mr Trump lost.

The rally signified the 2 men's processing confederation successful the closing stages of the statesmanlike race. Here’s however they got to this position.

The timeline doesn’t commencement connected a affirmative note.

Mr Musk stated to CNBC that helium didn't deliberation Trump should beryllium president conscionable earlier the 2016 statesmanlike election.

"I consciousness a spot stronger that helium is not the close guy. He doesn't look to person the benignant of quality that reflects good connected the United States," the billionaire said.

That aforesaid year, Mr Trump named his 2 economical advisory councils would beryllium Mr Musk and the CEO of Uber Travis Kalanick.

Mr Musk faced disapproval for his determination to enactment with the president, but helium stood by it, claiming helium was utilizing the relation to advocator for improved migration and biology laws.

After Mr Trump said connected June 1, 2017, that the United States would retreat from the Paris Climate Agreement, Musk tendered his resignation from his positions connected statesmanlike advisory boards.

After years of soundlessness betwixt the pair, Mr Trump came retired successful 2020 to CNBC and praised Mr Musk’s accomplishments and intelligence.

In notation to Tesla surpassing Ford and General Motors successful value, the erstwhile president stated: "You person to springiness him credit. He's besides doing the rockets. He likes rockets. And he's doing bully astatine rockets too, by the way."

On apical of this, Mr Musk was referred to arsenic "one of our large geniuses" by Mr Trump, who besides compared him to Thomas Edison.

As Mr Musk took ownership of Twitter, 1 of the archetypal things helium did was bring Mr Trump backmost onto the platform.

Mr Trump was banned by Twitter successful 2021 “due to the hazard of further incitement of violence”, pursuing the onslaught connected the US Capitol.

In an interrogation with the Financial Times, Musk referred to the prohibition arsenic "foolish to the extreme" and a "morally atrocious decision".

The Tesla proprietor has referred to himself arsenic a "free code absolutist" and helium made contented monitoring little stringent 1 of his main objectives erstwhile helium took implicit Twitter.

This is erstwhile their relationship turns bitter again. Mr Trump claims Mr Musk voted for him but aboriginal denied it.

During a Saturday rally successful Anchorage, Mr Trump said: “You cognize [Musk] said the different time 'Oh, I've ne'er voted for a Republican'. I said 'I didn't cognize that'. He told maine helium voted for me. So he's different bullshit artist.”

Mr Musk denied these claims and said Mr Trump shouldn’t tally for president again.

“I don't hatred the man, but it's clip for Trump to bent up his chapeau & sail into the sunset. Dems should besides telephone disconnected the onslaught – don't marque it truthful that Trump's lone mode to past is to regain the Presidency,” helium tweeted.

Adding: “Do we truly privation a bull successful a china store concern each azygous day!? Also, I deliberation the ineligible maximum property for the commencement of Presidential word should beryllium 69.”

The feud continues arsenic Mr Trump criticises Mr Musk connected Truth Social, the societal media institution founded by Mr Trump.

He said: "When Elon Musk came to the White House asking maine for assistance connected each of his galore subsidized projects, whether it's electrical cars that don't thrust agelong enough, driverless cars that crash, oregon rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he'd beryllium worthless, and telling maine however helium was a large Trump instrumentality and Republican, I could person said, 'drop to your knees and beg,' and helium would person done it."

In response, Mr Musk tweeted, "Lmaooo".

A travel to the US-Mexico borderline was live-streamed by Mr Musk connected Twitter, which helium had rebranded arsenic "X".

During his travel to Eagle Pass, Texas, to spot firsthand what section officials described arsenic a borderline catastrophe, Mr Musk claimed that 1 of Mr Trump's hallmark ideas was required.

Following the erstwhile president's shooting astatine a run lawsuit earlier the Republican National Convention, Mr Musk stated that helium "fully endorsed" Mr Trump.

The billionaire's enactment was a important turning point.

Mr Musk has revealed helium plans to perpetrate astir $45 cardinal (£34 million) a period to a caller ace political-action committee backing Mr Trump’s statesmanlike run, according to Wall Street Journal.

After Mr Trump joined Mr Musk successful a two-hour livestream connected X, covering topics ranging from a retelling of Mr Trump’s assassination to Mr Musk’s imaginable relation with a authorities ratio commission, the 2 began discussing the thought that Mr Musk could perchance participate his Cabinet oregon an advisory role.

Subsequently, helium tweeted respective times much to explicit his involvement successful accepting Mr Trump's appointment, saying that helium "looked guardant to serving" the federation and would beryllium contented to bash truthful successful the lack of compensation, recognition, oregon a title.