President Trump insisted Friday morning that he is not ruminating over his explosive fallout with tech billionaire Elon Musk a day earlier.
“I’m not even thinking about Elon,” Trump instructed CNN’s Dana Bash in a cellphone name. “He’s got a problem. The poor guy’s got a problem.”
The president additionally signaled that he does not count on to make up with the tech mogul within the close to future, regardless of ongoing makes an attempt by their mutual allies to dealer a truce and Musk’s delicate acknowledgment that he could also be inclined to place their points apart.
“I won’t be speaking to him for a while, I guess, but I wish him well,” Trump instructed Bash.
Trump and Musk took purpose at one another as their beforehand shut relationship got here to an explosive finish on Thursday. Cracks of their alliance had begun to point out in current days as Musk took purpose the Home GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
The tax and spending measure — a key element of the president’s home coverage agenda for his second time period — narrowly handed the Home final month and is at the moment up for evaluate within the Senate.
Musk, who left his function in Trump’s administration below the White Home’s Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) final week, has argued that the Trump-backed invoice does not lower spending sufficient and can enhance the federal debt.
Trump, in the meantime, instructed that Musk was upset that the proposal does not embrace subsidies for electrical autos that might profit Tesla, the automaker Musk owns.
A senior White Home official instructed NewsNation’s Tanya Noury on Friday that the president plans to promote or give away the Tesla that he bought earlier this yr after the corporate confronted backlash over Musk’s White Home work.
