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CNBC is reporting that amid the feud between President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the electric vehicle company lost its largest market cap of all time.

Raw Story reported after the close of the stock market on Thursday, Tesla stock rallied a little after falling 17.5% to close at over 14%. That translates into a significant financial loss for the company.

Far-right activist and former campaign chair for Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, is calling on the president to deport tech billionaire Elon Musk.

Trump and Musk erupted into a public fight on Thursday over the 2026 budget bill that Musk cites would add $2.4 trillion to the deficit.

Rep. Aaron Bean (R-FL), chair of the House DOGE Caucus, said he was "hurting" after a feud broke out between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump.

Bean told Nathaniel Reed of Scripps News that he hated to see Musk and Trump taking shots at each other on social media. The former DOGE administrator accused Trump of being part of the Jeffrey Epstein files, while the president threatened to end Musk's federal contracts.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) warned a group of artificial intelligence experts that "superhumans" were "a real concern" if wealthy people were allowed to have chips implanted in their brains.

The claims were made by the Florida Republican at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Thursday.

After staging a school walkout and paying tribute to their detained classmate earlier this week, high school students gathered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts on Thursday to demand the release of Marcelo Gomes da Silva from an immigration detention facility—and were overjoyed when they learned a judge had ordered the 18-year-old to be released on bond.

Community members chanted Gomes da Silva's name after learning he would be released.

President Donald Trump threatened to pull federal contracts from tech billionaire Elon Musk — and the stock market immediately reflected spooked investors.

Trump's threat on Truth Social came amid a vicious afternoon in which Musk complained of the president's "ingratitude" and even claimed he was listed in the Jeffrey Epstein papers, suggesting he was involved in that man's crimes.

President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk continued their feud on Thursday afternoon after Trump threatened to take away all of the billionaire's federal contracts.

Musk responded by saying he was immediately pulling SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft "immediately" from NASA's use.

The low-simmering drama between President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk over the past week over Musk's opposition to Trump's budget bill exploded into white-hot war on Thursday afternoon, with Trump threatening to revoke Musk's billions of dollars in subsidies and federal contracts and Musk casually asserting that Trump is a child sex predator.

It's set off a frenzy in Trump's universe, with MAGA supporters scrambling to take sides.

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to continue his attacks against tech billionaire Elon Musk online.

"Elon was 'wearing thin,' I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!" Trump posted on his personal social media site.

President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk continued their feud on Thursday afternoon after Trump threatened to take away all of the billionaire's federal contracts.

"The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!" Trump said.

President Donald Trump pulled out a new weapon in his escalating war of words with tech billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday, threatening to go after his lucrative federal contracts in a post on Truth Social.

Musk has been a massive ally of Trump for months, contributing millions of dollars and an entire independent campaign operation to his election in 2024 and helming the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project which has seen widespread purges of the civil service and a freeze of spending on federal contracts across the board.