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Elon Musk<\/strong>‘s ongoing war of words<\/a> with President Donald Trump<\/strong> has hit him where it hurts. No, not his ego\u2014you can take a look at his Friday night spent retweeting<\/a> fawning remarks from supporters<\/a> to see that nothing’s changed, there. But the father of 14<\/a> (that we know about<\/a>) took a major hit to his money hoard<\/a> on Thursday, reportedly losing $34 billion of his personal fortune in a single day, marking the second-biggest personal wealth loss ever.<\/p>\n It’s an upsetting reminder that even though we’re all been chuckling over the he said\/he said of it all<\/a>\u2014is Trump shading Musk’s admitted GLP-1 agonist use<\/a> with that \u201cElon was \u2018wearing thin<\/a>\u2019\u201d slam? Didn’t everybody already know about<\/a> Trump’s well-documented relationship<\/a> with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>?\u2014there’s a very real cost to the battle of the billionaires.<\/p>\n Just kidding! It’s not upsetting at all (unless you’re one of those sycophantic tweeters, I suppose). The adaptation of \u201cThe Scorpion and the Frog\u201d we’ve been watching since Thursday (real life plot twist: the frog is also an asshole!) has erased a figure roughly equivalent to the GDP of Iceland from Musk’s personal holdings, Bloomberg reports<\/a>. And that number might be even worse for Elon Musk, reports the outlet, as that $34 billion figure \u201cdoesn\u2019t reflect any damage to the value of his private enterprises \u2014 an increasingly important source of his net worth.\u201d<\/p>\n For example, the early Tesla investor is also the company’s CEO\u2026and I don’t know if you’ve heard<\/a>, but the company has been struggling lately<\/a>. Stock for the publicly owned electric vehicle company was down 14.3% on Thursday, reports Salon<\/a>, signaling a $150 billion loss in market value.<\/p>\n