President Trump vowed his former pal Elon Musk will face “very serious consequences” ought to he select to help the Democratic social gathering following their very public feud.
“I’m too busy doing other things,” Trump stated Saturday.
“I think it’s a very bad thing, because he’s very disrespectful,” he added. “You could not disrespect the office of the President.”
Requested instantly whether or not he believes their relationship to be completely over, Trump replied: “I would assume so, yeah.”
The world’s richest man backed Trump and Vice President JD Vance within the 2024 election, shelling out practically $300 million in a bid to land them within the White Home. Within the months following their win, Musk cemented himself by Trump’s facet, showing at press conferences, events and public occasions, whereas professing his “love” for the president.
However relations ruptured between the pair on Tuesday, when Musk ripped into the Republicans’ “Big, Beautiful” funds invoice aimed toward enacting a lot of Trump’s agenda.
“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk wrote on his X social media platform. “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”
He stated the invoice would undermine a lot of his efforts to trim federal spending throughout his temporary interval with Trump’s Division of Authorities Effectivity.
On Thursday, he then blasted the president and accused him of being an ingrate, saying, “Without me, Trump would have lost the election,”
Mere hours later, the SpaceX founder dropped the “really big bomb” when he alleged Trump appeared within the “Epstein files,” referring to a trove of paperwork associated to Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged intercourse trafficking crimes, together with those that have been concerned. That submit was deleted Friday evening.
“The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts,” Trump wrote on Reality Social, referring to federal contracts with SpaceX. “I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!”
As for his funds invoice, Trump believes his feud with Musk has really been optimistic, telling NBC the Tesla CEO helped deliver it to the general public’s consideration.
“I think, actually, Elon brought out the strengths of the bill because people that weren’t as focused started focusing on it, and they see how good it is,” Trump stated. “So in that sense, there was a big favor. But I think Elon, really, I think it’s a shame that he’s so depressed and so heartbroken.”
