President Trump and Elon Musk aren’t an exclusive item.That point was clear this week when the president welcomed OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman to the White House on the second day of Trump 2.0—a visit that left “First Buddy” Musk publicly fuming.

The Stargate project, led by OpenAI's Sam Altman - to build the "world's largest AI infrastructure" - was announced by Donald Trump at a special press conference at the White House. Elon Musk, however,

Elon Musk has poured cold water over a multi-billionaire dollar AI project announced by Donald Trump on Monday.

OpenAI’s CEO has stolen Musk’s thunder and it’s a lesson for every leader. Sam Altman and Elon Musk aren’t friends. They used to be colleagues back when the two were co-founders of OpenAI, and they seemingly shared the belief that artificial intelligence could be a huge net benefit for society.

One Trump ally told Politico that “It’s clear he has abused the proximity to the president” in his attack on Altman—which pretty quickly devolved from “they don’t have the money” to presenting Altman as a spineless flip-flopper who trashed Trump during his first term but is sucking up to him now.

Trump staffers are reportedly angry with Elon Musk for publicly undermining the $500 billion Stargate Project. Musk has questioned the finances behind the AI infrastructure project and used his social media influence to attack one of the project's leaders.

The Elon Musk-Sam Altman feud entered a new hot phase this week on X following President Trump's announcement of Stargate, a new $500 billion AI infrastructure joint venture funded in part by OpenAI,