Fuel for the feud was provided by the fact that X/Twitter itself has a long memory — an archive that Bluesky et al will always struggle to match. Musk, furious that Trump's "big beautiful bill" would increase the deficit, started posting quote tweets of every time Trump had promised to lower it, adding snarky comments in agreement.

Musk's foray into the world of politics began with a poll on his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, where he asked users if a new political party was needed in the United States to represent the "80% in the middle.