Topics: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Politics, Social Media, US News, Twitter, Celebrity
After months of seemingly playing house, it's clear United States president Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk are now in the peak of a very public online feud.
As part of the saga being referred to as their alleged 'break-up', we've seen Musk - who previously boldly sported 'TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING' caps - call Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' a 'disgusting abomination', as well as threatening to 'fire all politicians' who sided with it, and also tweeting that Trump was named in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
On top of that, there's been a seemingly back-and-forth on social media between the pair who seemed only a matter of weeks ago to be buddy-buddy at White House events and Oval Office press conferences, with another recent instalment in the online feud seeing Musk make a major U-turn on the whole Epstein thing after admitting he may have taken things a little 'too far'.
But things have amped up once again with Trump issuing a pretty serious threat towards Musk after the 54-year-old SpaceX billionaire launched a fresh attack on the 79-year-old Republican about the infamous 'big, beautiful bill'.
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And one of the more recent updates now saw Musk add fuel to the flames regarding the Trump 'body double' conspiracy theory after posing a bizarre question to the public.
Last month (5 June), Musk reshared a screenshot of three reactions to throwback tweets seemingly posted by Trump's official Twitter account from over a decade back.
The first tweet, posted back in January 2013 showed Trump writing: "I cannot believe the Republicans are extending the debt ceiling - I am a Republican & I am embarrassed!"
'Wise words', Musk captioned it.
The second of Trump's tweets, posted in July 2012, read: "No member of Congress should be eligible for re-election if our country's budget is not balanced - deficits not allowed!"
Musk captioned this particular tweet with the '100' emoji and also added in another caption 'I couldn't agree more!'
He captioned the retweet: "Where is the man who wrote these words? Was he replaced by a body double!?"
The theory surfaced online last month (24 June) after people caught light of the official NATO summit photos.
Some internet sleuths were totally convinced that Trump looked shorter than usual, sparking the theory that a body double, or a 'mini Trump' had been sent in his place.
Such individuals may be shocked to find out that a security expert has shut down the Trump 'body double' conspiracy theory.
Will Geddes, who over 30 years experience in the Specialist Security sector, explained that the only time that decoys and body doubles would be used is for 'journey management', which simply means when a high profile figure is moving from one location to another.
However, Will revealed that when attending something as high profile as the NATO summit, where Trump would be interacting with other leaders, a body double would 'never ever be used'.
