Washington – The friendship and political alliance of President Trump with Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, who fueled Trump's campaign with records in cash before working in the White House by his side until last week, seems to be finished, the two men set up burning criticisms against each other in a clear public row.
Musk had criticized the Trump administration about its signing legislation, the “Big Beautiful Bill Act”, for its planned impact on the national debt throughout last week. But his calls to “kill the bill»On Wednesday, prompted Trump, addressing the media of the oval office, responding in kind.
“Elon and I had an excellent relationship, I don't know if we want it,” said Trump on Thursday. “And he didn't say bad things about me personally, but I'm sure it will be next. But I'm very disappointed by Elon.”
Musk, Reply to his social media platformX, took the credit of Trump's electoral victory. The billionaire entrepreneur, whose companies also include SpaceX and Tesla, contributed more than $ 280 million to Trump and other Republicans during the 2024 presidential campaign.
“Without me, Trump would have lost the elections, the Dems would control the room and the Republicans are 51 to 49 years old in the Senate,” wrote Musk. “Such ingratitude.”
The questions have only deteriorate the progressive day. After meeting the German chancellor, Trump wrote on social networks that “The simplest way“Saving billions of federal spending would be to” terminate grants and contracts from the Elon government. “”
“Make my day,” ripposted Musk, before claiming in a later article that Trump had retained the complete release of FBI files on Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased sex offender because they would imply the president himself.
“It's time to drop the very large bomb: Trump is in Epstein files,” wrote Musk. “This is the real reason why they were not made public. Have a good day, DJT! ”
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The exchange opened a quarrel that has been simmering for weeks from the public view. In private, Musk had relayed the concerns about the bill to the president, while expressing his disagreement with several other policies, including the creation of an artificial intelligence campus in the Middle East and the announcement by Trump of world rates.
“I agree with a large part of what the administration is doing, but we have differences in opinion,” said Musk in a dull tone last week, speaking in an interview with CBS.
“You know, there are things with which I do not fully agree. But it is difficult for me to raise this in an interview because it creates a contention apple,” he added. “So, I'm a little stuck in a binding, where I am, well, I don't want to, you know, talk about the administration, but I don't want to take responsibility for everything that administration does.”
In the Oval Office, Trump said he believed that Musk had turned him against him after rejecting Musk's recommendation for NASA chief, a position that could benefit SpaceX, the Musk spaceship company. He also said that Musk was opposed to the provisions of Trump's megabill that would eliminate tax credits for electric vehicles.
“Elon knew better the inner functioning of this bill than almost anyone seated here. Better than you.
“People leave my administration and they love us, and at some point, they miss it so much, and some of them kiss him, and some of them really become hostile,” added Trump. “I don't know what it's.”
But Musk denied that the bill had been shown, responding to X, that would not be bored if the provisions of electric vehicles remain in the text as long as others, which, according to him, are annual balloon deficits, are cut.
“This bill has never been shown to me only once and was adopted in death so quickly that almost no one in Congress could not read it!” Musk wrote. “Keep the EV / Solar incentive cuts in the invoice, even if no oil and gas subsidy is affected (very unfair !!), but abandon the mountain of pork disgusting in the bill.”
The non -partisan congress budget office published an assessment on Wednesday that the “big and beautiful bill”, which adopted the Chamber and is being studied in the Senate, would add 2.4 billions of dollars to national debt during the next decade and would lead to 10.9 million Americans to lose health insurance coverage during the same period.
At the start of the administration, Trump launched Musk in the Ministry of Government efficiency, or Doge, a White House program that intended to reduce federal spending and reduce the deficit. Musk's mandate in the role, appointed as an employee of the special government, ended last week.
On X, Musk has published a collection of past remarks by Trump warning against growing deficits and actions of the congress increasing the debt ceiling, adding: “Where is this guy today?”
“Either you get an important and ugly invoice, or a slim and magnificent bill,” added Musk. “Minot and Beau is the way.”
