US President Donald Trump on Saturday revealed he is not interested in repairing his relationship with his former allies and campaign benefactor Elon Musk.
In a telephone interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker, Trump said he had no intention of reconciliation with Musk. And when specifically asked if Tesla’s relationship with the CEO of SpaceX’s megabillionaire has ended, Trump replied, “You’d think so.”
“I’m too busy doing other things,” Trump continued. “You know, I won the election on a landslide. I gave him a lot of breaks long before this happened. I gave him a break in his first administration and saved his life in my first administration. I’m not going to tell him.”
The US president also warned in chatter that Musk could support Democrats and candidates in the 2026 midterm elections.
“If that’s the case, he’ll have to pay for the results,” Trump told NBC, but he refused to share what those results were. Mask’s business has many favourable federal contracts.
The latest comes after an epic fallout in the relationship between the world’s most powerful man and the world’s wealthiest man over Trump’s budget bill, which Musk began criticizing social media platform X earlier this week.
Musk warned that the bill would increase the federal deficit, calling it “nasty hatred.”
The bill cuts spending and taxes, but leaves around 10.9 million people in health insurance and Spike deficits of $2.4 trillion over a decade.
On Thursday, Trump criticized Musk’s strong reaction to his “big beautiful bill” pending before Congress, and eventually he and Musk began trading fierce personal attacks on social media, scrambling to assess the surrender to the White House and GOP Congress leaders.
As the intensification before and after, Musk suggested that he would argue that Trump should be fired and claimed without evidence that he was hiding information about his relationship with President Jeffrey Epstein.
In an interview with “Manosphere” comedian Theo Fon, US vice president JD Vance tried to downplay the feud. He said Musk chases after Trump, calling him an “emotional guy” and irritating.
“I hope Elon will eventually fold, maybe it wasn’t possible now because he’s now at the core,” Vance said.
Vance said he “called Musk an incredible entrepreneur.” Musk’s government efficiency has been “really good” as it attempted to cut government spending and fire or push thousands of workers.
The US Vice President said the central goal of the bill is not to cut spending, but to extend the 2017 tax cuts approved in Trump’s first term.
“That’s a good bill,” Vance said. “That’s not a complete invoice.”
