President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have seemingly fallen out after a comfortable relationship when Musk ran DOGE. Trump offers his tackle why Musk is upset.
President Donald Trump on Thursday mentioned he was disenchanted in Elon Musk’s criticism of Republicans’ tax reduce bundle, which the billionaire known as a “disgusting abomination” and has urged Congress to dam.
“Nicely, look, you realize, I’ve at all times favored Elon, and so I used to be very stunned, and also you noticed the phrases he had. He hasn’t mentioned something about me that is unhealthy. I would reasonably have him criticize me than the invoice, as a result of the invoice is unimaginable,” Trump mentioned in a press availability on the White Home alongside German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. “It is the largest reduce within the historical past of our nation.”
“Elon’s upset as a result of we took the EV mandate… which was some huge cash for electrical autos and, you realize, they’re having a tough time, they usually need us to pay billions of {dollars} in subsidies,” Trump mentioned. “Elon knew this from the start, he knew it from a very long time in the past.”
Trump mentioned he did not assume Musk’s advice of a nominee to steer NASA was acceptable as a result of the potential candidate was a Democrat, so he can perceive why Musk was upset.
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President Donald Trump mentioned he is disenchanted with Elon Musk’s criticism of the GOP tax bundle. (Brandon Bell / Getty Pictures)
“Elon and I had an important relationship,” Trump mentioned. “He mentioned great issues about me, you could not have nicer, mentioned the most effective issues. He is worn that hat — Trump was proper about every part — and I’m proper concerning the nice large, stunning invoice. We name it an important, large, stunning invoice as a result of that is what it’s.”
“Greatest tax cuts in historical past. Greatest financial growth strikes anyplace, we have by no means completed something prefer it,” the president added.
Trump additionally mentioned Musk was conscious of the invoice’s provisions associated to the EV mandate and incentives, saying, “Elon knew the inside workings of the invoice higher than anyone sitting right here” and that he had “no downside with it” initially.
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Earlier this 12 months, Trump purchased a Tesla in a present of help for the corporate and Musk amid blowback over his political activism. (Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg through / Getty Pictures)
“Rapidly he had an issue, and he solely developed the issue when he discovered we’ll have to chop the EV mandate as a result of that is billions and billions of {dollars},” the president mentioned.
“It truly is unfair, we wish to have automobiles of every kind. Electrical — we wish to have electrical. However we wish to have gasoline combustion, we wish to have totally different — we wish to have hybrids. We would like to have the ability to promote every part,” he added.
“Should you noticed the statements he mentioned about me, which I am positive you will get very simply, it’s totally recent on tape, he mentioned probably the most stunning issues about me. And he hasn’t mentioned unhealthy about me personally, however I am positive that might be subsequent. However I am very disenchanted in Elon, I’ve helped Elon quite a bit,” Trump mentioned.
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Musk mentioned he was by no means proven the contents of the One Large Stunning Invoice Act. (Tom Brenner For The Washington Publish through / Getty Pictures)
Musk pushed again on Trump’s feedback with a sequence of posts on his social media platform X, criticizing the contents of the One Large Stunning Invoice Act.
“No matter. Hold the EV/photo voltaic incentive cuts within the invoice, regardless that no oil & fuel subsidies are touched (very unfair!!), however ditch the MOUNTAIN of DISGUSTING PORK within the invoice,” Musk wrote in a submit on X. “In your complete historical past of civilization, there has by no means been laws that each large and delightful. Everybody is aware of this!”
“Both you get an enormous and ugly invoice or a slim and delightful invoice. Slim and delightful is the way in which,” he added.
Musk mentioned he was left at midnight concerning the invoice, disputing Trump’s assertion that he was conscious of its contents, writing on X: “False, this invoice was by no means proven to me even as soon as and was handed at the hours of darkness so quick that just about nobody in Congress might even learn it!”
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The Tesla CEO mentioned in a subsequent submit that the president and Republicans would not be in energy with out his help within the final election and must be extra appreciative.
“With out me, Trump would have misplaced the election, Dems would management the Home and the Republicans could be 51-49 within the Senate,” Musk mentioned in one other submit. “Such ingratitude.”
