The clash began outside the Oval Office, before ending up around the corner by the National Security Adviser’s office, according to The Atlantic. At one point, their faces were inches apart, as Musk commented on Bessent for having “two failed hedge funds.”

Donald Trump’s former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has claimed that Elon Musk thinks the president “is an idiot.”Scaramucci, who spent 11 days as Trump’s White House communications director in 2017 before he was fired,