“You don’t want to go outside the rules of your game. Just be calm, cool and collected.”

On Tuesday morning, however, Howard seemed to have cooled off and offered an olive branch of sorts in a new X post.

He repeated his belief that losing Mr Musk's support would damage the party's chances with younger voters, because the tech entrepreneur was "a cult hero figure" and "he kind of makes us look cool".

On the carpet, a recently engaged LA Times reporter flashed her own engagement ring to the "Challengers" star and Zendaya played it cool.

Mitchell, a native New Yorker like Chalamet, said about the actor: “I think he’s cool. We have some things in common a little bit.”