Donald Trump would ABSOLUTELY do that.
This is a man who literally had to be taken to court by contractors for money that was owed and not recieved. He REFUSED to pay people for work they did. Moreover, if he proceeds with his plan to revoke the citizenship of naturalized and people born in America, what makes you think he wouldn't have Elon musk deported then just claim whatever dirt musk has on him is fake news and AI?
"you know these tech guys, they've got very convincing A.I. it's true, I've seen it myself. Elon--Elon, he showed it to me and my people and I said 'wow, that really looks like the real thing. You can make anyone say anything with that. Unbelievable. So now because he's not happy that I'm standing up for America, he's using that AI to make it look like I'm saying things I never said. That's very bad! I can't let him do that, so don't believe it folks, it's fake, and if you see the news and they say I'm saying those things it's fake news."
And his audience will absolutely eat that shyt up. They will hate whomever he tells them to hate, and if he's decided he hates Elon Musk now, well guess what they'll do.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are both narcissistic, childish, morons who can never accept responsibility for the negative consequences of any of their actions. To think these two would get along is a pipe dream. They were using each other and now any disagreement they have will be public because they BOTH love the attention. They're like posters here who will make a thread trying to expose a poster they personally don't like instead of taking the beef to the DMs. They need an audience.
Expect more public spectacles and clownery like this. I expect no less from a nation that was stupid enough to build its economic prosperity on a practice that was being outlawed, then had the audacity to pay reparations to the criminals who perpetrated the practice instead of the people who were victimized by it and followed up with a century of public humiliation, disrespect, and terror towards the descendants of those victims.
America has never been the country it likes to portray itself as, and nothing is more American than white foreigners exploiting desperate people for their own benefit. That's how it was from the beginning, and that's how it still is, and white people will fight TO THE DEATH to keep it that way. They did 163 years ago, and they'll do it again if they have to. They will literally kill and die to make sure white men can continue to exploit everyone as long as they believe they may reap some crumbs off the plate.