THE growing fracture between Elon Musk and American president Donald Trump has become a canyon.
Thursday, the president and his so-called “first friend” exchanged beards in front of cameras and on social networks, presenting the world their working relationship and their friendship.
Two days later Musk described the great bill on Trump’s tax relief a “disgusting abomination”, The president retaliated, saying that he was “very disappointed” from the billionaire.
The president, answering questions from the oval office on Thursday, degenerated the quarrel with his former employee of the special government, saying that he was “very surprised” of the repeated Musk attacks against his bill on the budget of the centerpiece.
“Elon and I had an excellent relationship. I don’t know if we want it,” Trump told journalists on Thursday.
“He didn’t say any harm (sic) on me personally, but I’m sure it will be the next one,” said Trump. “But I am very disappointed by Elon. I helped Elon a lot.
Trump continued, adding that many people who leave his administration “miss it so” and “become hostile”.
“It’s a kind of Trump’s disturbance syndrome, I guess they call it,” he said.
“I’m going to be honest, I think he missed the place. He came out, and all of a sudden, he was not in this magnificent oval office,” he continued.
He also took advantage of it, as he does so often with his detractors, to walk on the appearance of Musk – namely the black eye that Tesla’s CEO was seen sporting his last day in the White House.
“I said,” Do you want a little makeup? ” We are going to make you a little makeup. What is interesting, “said Trump.
“Anyway,” Musk wrote on X, his social media platform, while responding to Trump in real time.
The billionaire, who once said he loved Trump “As much as a hetero man could love another man,” offered Trump several additional reticlations – a man notoriously fixed on his image and his support for voters.
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“Without me, Trump would have lost the elections”, wrote. “Such ingratitude,” he said in a follow-up article, apparently referring to the more than $ 250 million in personal money he set up to support the Trump campaign last fall-the money that many believe that many helped Trump win his second term.
Trump then retaliated with his own article on his own social media platform, Truth Social, saying that Musk “wore thin” And that he asked the billionaire to leave his post of contractual government.
“Elon” wore thin “, I asked him to leave, I removed his mandate EV who forced everyone to buy electric cars that no one else wanted (that he knew for months that I was going to do!), And he went crazy!” Shared Trump.
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“The simplest way to save money in our budget, billions and billions of dollars, is to terminate the subsidies and government contracts from Elon. I have always been surprised that Biden did not do it! ” He continued in a separate postA few moments later, threatening to reduce the contracts of the Musque government.
@REALDONALDTRUMP / TRUTH SOCIAL
In turn, Musk repliedSaying that his business, SpaceX, “would immediately start downgrading his dragon spaceship”.
Dragon spaceships are used to transport crews and supplies to the international space station, alongside NASA shuttles.
In March, a dragon spacecraft was involved in the return to earth of the astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who were failed at the ISS For more than nine months due to problems with the Boeing Starliner spaceship.
Asset asked Musk to help In the return of astronauts after many delays under the Biden administration. SpaceX finally had to travel several spaceships to try to accelerate the mission.
The comments of the Republican President come after Musk has Slewé for days On social media on Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”, warning that this will increase the federal deficit.
Musk was also unleashed at Trump’s pricing policy, predicting Thursday on X that prices “will cause a recession in the second half of this year”.
It’s just last week that Musk wrapped As an employee of the Special Government in the Trump administration, where he was responsible for discovering and reducing government waste with the Government Ministry (DOGE).
President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Ovale Blank office on Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington.
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His echo comments made days before leaving for his post, when he told CBS that he was “disappointed” by the so-called “Grand, Beautiful” Bill de Trump, saying him “SAPE” work He has set up to reduce public spending.
He described the legislation, which includes a mixture of tax reductions and strengthening the application of immigration, as a “massive spending bill” which will ultimately increase the federal deficit.
“I think that a bill can be great or that it could be beautiful,” said Musk. “But I don’t know if it could be both.”
Republican legislators who have adopted the bill in the American House of Representatives have since tried to defend themselves against Musk’s criticism.
The president of the American room, Mike Johnson, told journalists on Wednesday that he had tried to call Musk, but the billionaire did not respond, adding that Tesla CEO is “badly making his claims concerning the bill.
Wednesday, the shared analysis not partisan of the Office Budget of Congress (CBO) which estimates that the package, entitled “One Big Beau Bill Act”, would reduce the taxes of 3.75 billions of dollars, but also Increase deficits of 2.4 billions of dollars in the next decade.
The CBO also estimates an increase of 10.9 million people without health insurance under the bill by 2034, including 1.4 million which is in the country without legal status in the programs funded by the State.
The package would reduce federal expenses or expenses, by nearly 1.3 dollars during this period, the budget office said.
The legislation – which must still adopt the Senate – would extend the tax reductions of the 2017 Trump signature, would increase border security expenditure, would impose work requirements on the tax credits on clean energy and to retreat.
– With files from the Associated Press
