Musk used X—formerly Twitter—to help rebuild Trump's public image and support his presidential run. What happens if he turns it against the president?

Amid the very public feud unfolding Thursday between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, the world’s richest man dropped what he claimed was a “really big bomb” — that the president appears in disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s unreleased criminal files.

Social media has erupted after Elon Musk declared war on Donald Trump in a series of explosive posts on X. Mr Musk’s post accusing the president of being implicated in the Epstein files has received more than 16 million impressions and generated a host of memes.