Elon Musk once blasted Donald Trumpon social media, but the world's richest man's seismic political shift has led to a bizarre, powerful friendship that has struck fear for many.

But their purported 'love' for each other is a relatively new phenomenon. As recently as 2022, Tesla owner Musk tweeted that it was 'time for Trump to hang up his hat and sail into the sunset', adding that he believed that the 'legal maximum age for [the] start of Presidential term should be 69'.