The breakdown between the president of the United States and the richest man in the world is unfolding the same way his relationship began – fast, intense and very public.
While Donald Trump gathered at the Oval Hall on Thursday (5) with Germany leader, he mourned the sour of his relationship with Elon Musk, his former squire who became the US president’s antagonist on social networks.
After the billionaire, his main supporter during the 2024 presidential campaign and responsible for the spending cut department in the first months of the government ,.
During the meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the White House, Trump said he was disappointed with Elon Musk because of the billionaire criticism of the budget bill that is being processed in Congress. Trump said Musk already knew that the project would be sent to Congress and do not know if they will have “a great relationship as before.”
Shortly thereafter, Musk responded on the X social network. He denied being informed about the project and said Trump was being ungrateful:
Trump said Musk, CEO and Founder of Tesla, “only created problems” with the bill because it reduces tax credits for electric vehicles.
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“False,” Musk countered on his social media platform while the president was still talking. “This bill was never shown to me, not even once, and was approved in the middle of the night so quickly that almost no one in Congress has read it!”
Trump then reacted to the social Truth with a threat: “The easiest way to save billions and billions of dollars in our budget is to end Elon Musk’s subsidies and government contracts.”
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Trump also stated that he “sent musk away” from the government because he was “annoying” him. He said that. Trump’s “mandate” is a reference to automotive and decarbonization electrification policies adopted during the Biden government.
Musk responded again in X this time: “Donald Trump is in the archives of Epstein. This is the real reason why they were not made public.”
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Then Trump said he didn’t care about the fact that Musk “turned around” against him. Already Musk stated that – used by NASA to bring loads to space and transport astronauts.
Musk also commented “yes” in a post that said Trump should suffer impeachment.
Tesla’s shares, a musk electric vehicle company, fell almost 12% shortly after noon, with the fall occurring at the moment Trump began to make his comments.
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End of ‘bromance’ and public bullshit
The magnitude of Musk’s support for Trump, spending at least $ 250 million to support his campaign, and the freedom the president gave to the billionaire to cut spending and government with the department of government efficiency are overshadowed only for the speed with which they fell out.
Musk announced his support for Trump shortly after the then candidate was almost murdered on the stage of a Pennsylvania Butler rally last July. The news of the Musk Political Action Committee in support of Trump’s election came days later.
Musk soon became a nearby advisor and a frequent companion, jumping behind Trump on the stage of a rally in October. His commitment to elect Trump from rallies to the injection of millions of dollars in a campaign committee that used digital media to map and convince potential voters to go out to vote for Trump in several cities where the dispute would be fierce.
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After Trump was elected, the technology billionaire was next to the new president while he was an oath, he flew with him at Air Force One for weekend stays at Trump Mar-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, slept in the White House Lincoln at the president’s invitation and participated in his gabinel meetings wearing a widen cap (sometimes more than one).
“I’m going to be honest, I think he missed the place,” said Trump on Thursday. “He left and suddenly he was no longer in that beautiful oval hall.”
Musk said goodbye to Trump last week at a discreet press conference in the Oval Hall, where he displayed a purple eye that, he said, was caused by his small son, but seemed to be a metaphor for his troubled period in public service.
Trump, who rarely misses an opportunity to criticize his detractors for his appearance, mentioned the subject on Thursday. “I said, ‘Do you want a little makeup? Let’s get some makeup for you.’ What’s interesting,” said Trump.
The comments of the Republican President came after Musk spent days complaining on social networks about Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill (great and beautiful bill), as the US president calls the Budget Bill approved by Congress last week after the President’s intense pressure on Republican congressmen who control chamber and senate.
For weeks, Musk complained about the republican budget bill and used the estimate of the budgetary office, a non -party supporting entity responsible for analyzing budgets that the project would increase the deficit by $ 2.4 trillion in the next decade, as an opportunity to criticize legislation as a “disgusting abomination”.
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“He didn’t speak badly about me in person, but I’m sure it will come to the following,” Trump said on Thursday at the Oval Hall. “But I’m very disappointed with Elon. I helped a lot Elon.”
Observers have long wondered if the friendship between the two impetuous billionaires, known for exchanging online insults, would end up spectacularly – which happened in less than a year.
“Look, Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we’ll still have,” Trump said. The US president said some people who leave his government “miss it so much” and “actually become hostile.” “It’s a kind of Trump’s abstinence syndrome, I think that’s how they call,” he said.
Trump ignored the billionaire’s efforts to elect him last year, including a $ 1 million draw for voters in Pennsylvania. The wave of money that Musk proved to be willing to spend seemed to make him a very coveted ally by the Republicans going forward, but his separation from Trump, the party leader, raises questions about whether they or others will see such an unexpected gain in campaigns in the future.
In another post, he said Trump could maintain spending cuts, but “abandon the mountain of shameful excessive expenses in the bill.”
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The bill would release trillions of dollars in tax cuts and reduce spending, but would also increase the deficit by $ 2.4 trillion over a decade and leave about 10.9 million people without health insurance, according to an analysis by the Congress budget office, which has been officially responsible for the accounting of congressional legislation.
In addition to Musk being “disturbed” with tax credits for electric vehicles, Trump said another point of discord was the promotion of Jared Isaacman by Musk to drive NASA.
Trump removed Isaacman’s nomination over the weekend, days after Musk left his position in government. “I didn’t find it appropriate,” said Trump, calling Isaacman “totally democrat.” Musk, returning to his main form of political activity before joining Trump, continued to cast his answers on social networks.
He shared some posts Trump made over a decade criticizing Republicans for his spending, reflections made when he was just a billionaire spreading his opinions on social networks.
“Where is the man who wrote these words?” Wrote Musk. “Was he replaced by a double?”
