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    Terry Gilliam has almost enjoyed seeing Donald Trump and Elon Musk "go at each other like two children in the playground"

    The President of the United States and his former friend fell out recently over a proposed spending bill, with the pair taking shots at each other over the past few weeks


    Monty Python star Terry told Deadline: "I'm almost finding it enjoyable to listen to Trump and Musk go at each other like two children in the playground.

    "It's the world's richest man and the world's most powerful man behaving like that."

    Just this week, the 78-year-old commander-in-chief hit out at his former friend and advisor after the tech mogul dec lared his intention to start his own political party, the America Party.

    Although Terry, AGE, admitted it's "fascinating", he did take aim at the way the Trump administration is trying to tackle immigration.

    He added: "That's kind of fascinating and entertaining, and I think the idea of pushing all those people out of California, in all of America, that's the workforce folks, it isn't going to give more jobs to Americans.

    "We need immigrants. The same thing happened when Britain left Europe."

    The filmmaker - who was born in Minnesota, grew up in Los Angeles and later became a naturalised British citizied in 1968 - insisted he has no intention of living in the US again, having formally renounced his citizenship in 2006.

    He said: "I haven't been back to [live in] America since whenever it was, and I don't intend to.

    "I think America is in a very difficult position now because Trump and company are quite extraordinary.

    "On the other hand, he may actually succeed where other people didn't, in a strange way. It's like Richard Nixon, you know, brought about the rapprochement with China."

    Over the weekend, Tesla boss Musk revealed his plans to set up a political party to give people "back [their] freedom".

    He wrote on X, which he owns : "By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it! When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste + graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy.

    "Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom."

    The president fired back on his own Truth Social platform: "I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely 'off the rails,' essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks.

    "He even wants to start a Third Political Party, despite the fact that they have never succeeded in the United States."

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