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Elon Musk fuelled Donald Trump ‘body double’ conspiracy theory with bizarre question to the public

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Updated 16:18 1 Jul 2025 GMT+1Published 16:14 1 Jul 2025 GMT+1

Elon Musk fuelled Donald Trump ‘body double’ conspiracy theory with bizarre question to the public

The ongoing public feud between the pair seemingly continues

Rhiannon Ingle

Rhiannon Ingle

Featured Image Credit: Will Oliver/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Win McNamee/Getty Images

Topics: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Politics, Social Media, US News, Twitter, Celebrity

Rhiannon Ingle
Rhiannon Ingle

Rhiannon Ingle is a Senior Journalist at Tyla, specialising in TV, film, travel, and culture. A graduate of the University of Manchester with a degree in English Literature, she honed her editorial skills as the Lifestyle Editor of The Mancunian, the UK’s largest student newspaper. With a keen eye for storytelling, Rhiannon brings fresh perspectives to her writing, blending critical insight with an engaging style. Her work captures the intersection of entertainment and real-world experiences.

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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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There's yet another update in the reignited feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk (Bloomberg / Contributor / Getty Images)
There's yet another update in the reignited feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk (Bloomberg / Contributor / Getty Images)

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!"

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'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!'

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He captioned the retweet: "Where is the man who wrote these words? Was he replaced by a body double!?"

Musk floated the idea of Trump being replaced by a 'body double' (Kevin Dietsch / Staff / Getty Images)
Musk floated the idea of Trump being replaced by a 'body double' (Kevin Dietsch / Staff / Getty Images)

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.

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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'.

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