For Musk, who has called Bezos’ company “Sue Origin,” this fight is personal and years in the making. In an early Thursday morning post on his platform X, he gleefully accused Bezos of telling others to sell their SpaceX and Tesla stock because Trump would lose the election. Tesla stock prices have soared since news of Trump’s victory.

I n 2017 Elon Musk branded Donald Trump a “con man” and “one of the world’s best bullshitters”. Now he is known at Mar-a-Lago as Uncle Elon and is in the president-elect’s inner circle. This week they watched a rocket launch together.