The pair’s most powerful media allies at Fox News — the most-watched cable news network on the planet, often viewed as a clearinghouse for the MAGA agenda — seemed to have a little difficulty with the breakup.

And on Thursday, personalities on conservative Fox News processed the online blow-up between the president and his former so-called “First Buddy” in various different ways. Will Cain appeared somber as he suggested it is “hard to see a path forward for these two to repair their relationship” after Musk last week left his role leading Trump’s unofficial Department of Government Efficiency and then almost immediately slammed the president’s proposed spending bill.