The veteran politician scoffed at the idea of retiring.

Musk resurfaces old Trump posts on X, highlighting moments when the president criticised America's budget deficits. "Where is this guy today??" he asks.Replying to another user on X, Musk says: "Without me, Trump would have lost the election." He goes on to say: "Such ingratitude".

Still going, Musk claims on X that "the Big Ugly Bill will INCREASE the deficit to $2.5 trillion".Musk continues to quote old Trump posts on X about government spending. He asks: "Where is the man who wrote these words? Was he replaced by a body double!?""Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle?" Musk asks in a poll on X.

Trump starts posting on his Truth Social platform, saying Musk had been "wearing thin" so he asked him to leave the White House, and alleging that Musk "went CRAZY".Musk calls this "an obvious lie".

"The easiest way to save money in our Budget," Trump continues in another post, "is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts".

Musk alleges, without providing evidence, that Trump appears in the "Epstein files", referring to court documents and evidence collected by investigators into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Hospitals are specially protected under international humanitarian law. They only lose that protection in certain circumstances, including being used as a base from which to launch an attack, as a weapons depot, or to hide healthy fighters.

The Hamas-run Civil Defence agency said Israeli strikes killed at least 37 people across Gaza on Thursday. As well as Gaza City, local media reported deaths in Jabalia and Beit Lahia in the north, and in Khan Younis in the south.Also on Thursday, a controversial US and Israeli-backed aid group working in Gaza said it had reopened two of its distribution centres, a day after closing them for "renovation".

"Over the past 24 hours, we have been fully focused on strengthening our distribution sites to ensure safe and more efficient delivery of life-saving aid to the people of Gaza," the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's (GHF) interim executive director John Acree said in a statement.On Wednesday, the GHF announced that it was shutting all of its sites - three out of four of which had been operational - to make them "as safe as possible" following a string of deadly incidents nearby.