Trump Vs Musk: Relationship melts down in public; What next…?

Musk wrote in a post ‘Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate’. Read further on Dynamite News:

Washington: The once strong relationship President Donald Trump and Telsa CEO billionaire Elon Musk fractured in dramatic and public fashion on Thursday, with the President saying he was "very disappointed" in his former ally and Musk claiming Trump would not have won the presidency without his deep financial warchest.

The break came over Musk's ongoing criticism of Republicans' "big, beautiful bill" on Capitol Hill, which cuts taxes by trillions of dollars and implements Trump's domestic agenda, including cutting hundreds of billions of dollars in spending.

Musk Criticises Domestic Agenda

Musk has railed against the legislation as "outrageous" and "a disgusting abomination." The Congressional Budget Office estimated on Wednesday that the bill would lead to an increase of $2.4 trillion in total deficits over the next 10 years, a conclusion that Republicans and Trump dispute, CBS reported.

The President was asked about Musk's criticism for the first time publicly during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office on Thursday.

Trump To Reporters

"Elon and I had a great relationship," Trump told reporters. "I don't know if we will anymore."

Trump said Musk was around for the whole process of crafting the bill. The president claimed he "never had a problem" with the legislation until provisions dealing with electric vehicle subsidies were eliminated, threatening Tesla's business.

Dispute On The Bill

The bill would roll back some of the clean energy tax credits under the Biden-era climate and health care law, phasing out a tax break for clean energy vehicles.

"I'm very disappointed in Elon. I've helped Elon a lot," Trump told reporters, adding that Musk "worked hard" and did a "good job."

"And I'll be honest, I think he misses the place," the president continued. "He's not the first. People leave my administration and they love us. And then, at some point, they miss it so badly. And some of them embrace it and some of them actually become hostile. I don't know what it is. It's sort of Trump derangement syndrome, I guess they call it."

Appearing to respond to Trump's comments in real time, Musk wrote on X: "Whatever. Keep the EV/solar incentive cuts in the bill, even though no oil & gas subsidies are touched (very unfair!!), but ditch the MOUNTAIN of DISGUSTING PORK in the bill."

In another post, he denied that he was aware of the details in the bill when it was crafted, writing that "this bill was never shown to me even once and was passed in the dead of night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it!"

"Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate," Musk went on. "Such ingratitude."
Musk, the world's wealthiest man, spent roughly $277 million to elect Trump and Republican lawmakers last year.