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The war between Donald Trump and Elon Musk showed no signs of cooling off on Saturday after the president spoke with NBC News and and warned the billionaire to keep his nose out of any upcoming elections.

According to NBC's Kristen Welker who got Trump on the phone, the president said his relationship with Musk is over and he has no interest in attempts to resurrect it, telling the NBC host, "I’m too busy doing other things. I have no intention of speaking to him.”

He did put the billionaire –– who had a major hand in getting Trump reelected in 2024–– on notice that any attempts by Musk to support Democrats against Republicans, who have backed the budget bill that the billionaire has trashed, will come at a cost.

According to the report, Trump stated, "If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” before adding, "He’ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that."

Late Saturday, Musk once again brought up on X the Jeffrey Epstein file which he has linked to the president before deleting it soon after.

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According to one of Donald Trump's many former lawyers, the initial skirmish between the president and billionaire Elon Musk is far from over and likely to grow more vicious.

In a second segment with MSNBC host Ali Velshi on Saturday, former Trump "fixer" Michael Cohen doubled down on an earlier prediction where he stated, "...what Trump is actually doing is weaponizing the Department of Justice through his attorney general and other people — and they are going to drop the hammer on him out of nowhere when he least expects it. That's the playbook. And again, this is political guerrilla warfare at the highest level."

According to Cohen, onlookers may be on the verge of seeing a historic "war."

Cohen noted the disparity of Musk's social media reach via X, compared to Trump barely scratching the surface on Truth Social.

"On his platform which is going to really irritate and I'm sure it already has Trump on that, 172 million people viewed Elon Musk's post versus Trump's on his social media Truth Social platform: 179,000," he told the host.

'Elon Musk has massive powe and here's the problem with that, " he continued. "Trump craves relevance, Elon Musk craves dominance –– it's a very big difference. You're talking about an immovable force trying to smash into something that's indestructible. This is going to be a war like nobody has seen in maybe in all of history."

"But to your point, you just made a minute ago, most Americans are worried about other stuff, so it's fun to watch this little tennis match between them," he added.

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A comment by Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Solomon Jones as he battled with conservative Scott Jennings ended up angering CNN's normally unflappable Harry Enten on Saturday morning.

During a discussion on CNN's "Table for Five" over the Donald Trump administration's use of antisemitism as a pretext to continue his assault on higher education, Jones and Jennings went back and forth on the president's plans to punish California for ignoring his executive orders.

That led Jones to comment, "How do you, as the president, target an entire state because you disagree with two things that happened there. That makes no sense to me, and I don't think it should make sense to any of us."

"Because antisemitism should not be condoned," Jennings replied.

"Why is antisemitism the only prejudice that matters? Why does it feel like that?" Jones shot back.

That was when Enten entered the fray.

After some overtalk, he exclaimed, "I got to tell you, you know, I'm a Jewish-American, I've been so my entire life. I'm not exactly the most religious guy in the world but I will tell you, as a Jewish-American, I have been so sick of every single time that there's been hate against Jewish folks that all of a sudden, well, the hate against other minorities is just as bad, and we should elevate that as well."

"I'm not saying that we shouldn't talk about it, but sometimes it is okay just to talk about antisemitism," he added.

"It is okay to talk about it, but it's not okay to target an entire state and say that the only thing that we're targeting you for is antisemitism and what happened with a transgender athlete," Jones explained. "I think that there are other forms of prejudice that matter. I think that there are other forms of racism that matter."

"Certainly," Enten agreed.

"I think that there are other things that matter, and it feels like everything is kind of centered on –– in fact, the trump administration feels like they're weaponizing antisemitism in a way against those who disagree with it," the columnist finished.

"I'll just finish quickly," Enten replied. "I would just say, I just think it is nice that we're really actually focusing on antisemitism for a change in this country and talking about that. We do have a real issue and that there is real Jewish hate on the rise, and we all need to address it."

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CNN conservative contributor Scott Jennings was put on the spot on Saturday morning as colleague Harry Enten teased him over Elon Musk's messy break up with Donald Trump that has spiraled into ugly accusations and roiled MAGA-land as conservatives choose sides

On Saturday morning's "Table for Five," host Abby Phillip brought up the messy divorce between the world's most powerful man and the richest man in the world which led CNN's Harry Enten to mock cry about the tragedy of it all.

"Oh my god, please, thank you," Enten wailed as he was invited to weigh in first, "Oh, this is just so horrible. And you know, when this news broke, all I could think of was my dear friend Scott Jennings. I texted him immediately, wondering how he was going to deal with this."

As CNN went to split screen showing both men, Enten continued, "Scott, how have you dealt with this? Are you doing okay?"

"I'm perfectly fine," Jennings replied before joking, "I do appreciate you offering to let me stay at your place for a while."

"My heart goes out to you" Enten offered as the panel started laughing.

Host Phillip jumped in to state, "Yeah, mom and dad are not doing so well right now. You know, maybe at this point, after a few days of this there is a big question about the Donald Trump of it all, because on Friday, he spent a big chunk of the day, the morning it seemed, calling around to network reporters, including our very own Dana Bash here at CNN and spinning a narrative because, I guess, maybe he was unsatisfied with how this was playing out without him. He got in there and the message was, 'I don't really care all that much'."

"Look, the short-term implications of this sort of salacious this week or, you know, exciting. But the long-term implications of this are more important. And what are they? Number one, the president's focus. You know, he's got to stay focused on passing the big, beautiful bill and making sure Republicans stay with him on what is essentially the entirety of his reelection agenda, which he ran on and won a big victory last November, "Jennings stated.

"Number two, the longer-term implications of the future of the Republican party," he added. "These two guys united last year to save America –– they did it. And now it's a question of what Elon Musk is going to do with his own political engagement in the future. That's still hanging out there."

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