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Trump 'very disappointed' by Musk as row explodes into public

US President Donald Trump says he was "very surprised" and "disappointed" with former ally Elon Musk's criticisms of his centrepiece budget bill.

"Elon and I had a great relationship. I don't know if we will anymore," Trump told reporters in the White House on Thursday.

It was the president's most direct criticism yet of Musk's lobbying efforts against the proposals to cut taxes and slash government spending - a plan that has drawn criticism from Musk and some Republicans.

In response, Musk doubled down on X and accused the president of "Such ingratitude", adding: "Without me, Trump would have lost the election".

Musk left his post at the Department of Government Efficiency last week after 129 days on the job, and Trump presented him with a with a golden key during a congratulatory news conference on 30 May.

But in the days since, he has repeatedly criticised Trump's budget bill currently working its way through Congress, calling it a "disgusting abomination" and posting "Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong."

The bill passed the House with the backing of most Republicans, with a handful of representatives from Trump's party and all Democrats opposed.

Speaking to reporters during a news conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday, Trump said: "We are doing things in that bill that are unbelievable.

"I'm very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here," he said. "All of a sudden he had a problem."

"He hasn't said bad about me personally, but I'm sure that will be next."

Put in charge of radically slashing government spending, Musk initiated mass sackings and wholesale elimination of departments such as the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

Doge claims to have saved $180bn, although that number has been disputed, and is well short of Musk's initial aim to cut spending by up to $2 trillion.

Source: BBC
 
Brace yourselves and bring your popcorns 🍿 Next few weeks or months are going to be very very entertaining. This is pure cinema 💪🏻🫡🤣

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Musk said Trump is in the Epstein files!

What the hell.

They are arguing like school boys.

And I prefer Trump to Elon but he is the one looking bad here since he brought Elon into the fold now is arguing like a spurned lover.
 
What a pathetic way to fight in public between Elon and Trump.

Elon is right about givernment spending bill. You cannot simply print the money out of your troubles. It will never work. The US debt is already out of hand.

Elon is a businessman. He should not stick his nose in politics. His duty is to run his Tesla business. But he thinks he is the savior of US. Tesla share holders getting destroyed.
 
Stock can drop below 200 in a week. Shorts will have field day. Long term holders destroyed.

Elon's Autism showing up. He does not understand how to deal with big egos.
Elon is a nasty piece of work but Trump is the one who pandered to him and turned the white house into a tesla show room.

Now he looks a bit silly back tracking and even blaming Biden for Elon/Tesla.
 
Elon is a nasty piece of work but Trump is the one who pandered to him and turned the white house into a tesla show room.

Now he looks a bit silly back tracking and even blaming Biden for Elon/Tesla.
I have a ton of money invested in Tesla. I am stuck for a while. Until Robotaxi and Optimus becomes reality, there is no hope for Tesla stock. With lack of Trump backing, Robotaxi is looking a bit iffy now.
 
I have a ton of money invested in Tesla. I am stuck for a while. Until Robotaxi and Optimus becomes reality, there is no hope for Tesla stock. With lack of Trump backing, Robotaxi is looking a bit iffy now.
That's a shame man. Hopefully you can ride it out. It will bounce back eventually.
 
What a pathetic way to fight in public between Elon and Trump.

Elon is right about givernment spending bill. You cannot simply print the money out of your troubles. It will never work. The US debt is already out of hand.

Elon is a businessman. He should not stick his nose in politics. His duty is to run his Tesla business. But he thinks he is the savior of US. Tesla share holders getting destroyed.
atleast you don't have to worry about the woke and bathroom use rules

Maybe you can hedge your bet by buying DJT crypto

Check with @deltexas if this is what he was rooting for.
 
I have a ton of money invested in Tesla. I am stuck for a while. Until Robotaxi and Optimus becomes reality, there is no hope for Tesla stock. With lack of Trump backing, Robotaxi is looking a bit iffy now.
did you do any home work at all? Tesla was way behind on the driverless tech compared to Waymo.

Waymo was being tested on 280 during rush hour traffic every day ~2 years.

the cyber truck should have been a warning sign and so should the Twitter buy.

Looks like you drank the koolaid.
 
atleast you don't have to worry about the woke and bathroom use rules

Maybe you can hedge your bet by buying DJT crypto

Check with @deltexas if this is what he was rooting for.
I care about economy and of course my investment. If these 2 clowns are going against each other’s throats in public this way, then all the investment is gone.
 
I care about economy and of course my investment. If these 2 clowns are going against each other’s throats in public this way, then all the investment is gone.
Sure thats why you chose the repulicans becos they have such strong record on economy.

Face it, you were a clueless bigot who voted for a criminal. enjoy the fruits.

too bad rest of the world has to suffer.

Wonder if there can be a special Trump tax targeting trump voters.
 
did you do any home work at all? Tesla was way behind on the driverless tech compared to Waymo.

Waymo was being tested on 280 during rush hour traffic every day ~2 years.

the cyber truck should have been a warning sign and so should the Twitter buy.

Looks like you drank the koolaid.
May be you should do the homework. Waymo is not profitble. Those clownish cars with its big lidar on this head costs like $180k each. In 4 yrs, Waymo was able to have only like 1500 cars. They cannot ramp to all cities easily. They also have to charge a boat load of money to be competitive.

Tesla robotaxi works on NeuralNetworks. It can work anywhere. Check out their videos in China too.

The issue is not Waymo vs Robotaxi. Its the unstable nature of Elon and Trump. Nothing to do with Tesla's Self Driving Tech.
 
May be you should do the homework. Waymo is not profitble. Those clownish cars with its big lidar on this head costs like $180k each. In 4 yrs, Waymo was able to have only like 1500 cars. They cannot ramp to all cities easily. They also have to charge a boat load of money to be competitive.

Tesla robotaxi works on NeuralNetworks. It can work anywhere. Check out their videos in China too.

The issue is not Waymo vs Robotaxi. Its the unstable nature of Elon and Trump. Nothing to do with Tesla's Self Driving Tech.
so you put your money on the guy who championed the cyber truck at $100K?

Rockon.
 
Musk said Trump is in the Epstein files!

What the hell.

They are arguing like school boys.

And I prefer Trump to Elon but he is the one looking bad here since he brought Elon into the fold now is arguing like a spurned lover.

Knowing Trump's track record, I fully expect him to be in the Epstein files. :inti
 
Donald Trump is falling out with every ally of his, in USA and abroad. The only people and countries he has improved relations with are terrorists, terrorist states and states that sponsor terrorism. Quite an achievement.
:kp
 
Tesla loses $152 billion in market cap after Musk-Trump spat, biggest hit ever

Shares of Tesla fell 14% on Thursday as President Donald Trump threatened to pull government contracts for CEO Elon Musk’s companies, escalating a war of words over the spending bill.

The move dropped the EV maker $152 billion in value, the biggest hit to its market cap ever, putting it below the $1 trillion benchmark and settling Thursday at $916 billion.

“Elon was ‘wearing thin,’ I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Trump spoke from the Oval Office earlier Thursday and said Musk was upset that EV credits were not included in the bill.

“Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will anymore,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Thursday. “I was surprised.”

“Whatever,” Musk fired back as the president spoke.

“Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate,” he posted on X.

Musk, the world’s richest man, in recent days has threatened to make lawmakers who vote for the bill face primary elections and called the bill a “disgusting abomination,” marking a significant shift in his comments about the administration.

The fall in shares comes after the EV maker saw a 22% rally in May despite weak sales numbers, with Musk wrapping up his time as head of Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

Shares are down nearly 18% this week as Musk has continued to rail against the budget bill. This year, shares are down nearly 30% and well off the high of $488.54 reached Dec. 18.

Since Musk’s special government employee term ended Friday, he’s appeared at odds with the Trump administration and gone on a full assault against the president’s signature tax-cut bill.

“One of the things about Elon is when he goes all in, he goes all in,” Walter Isaacson, author of a Musk biography, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Thursday.

“He is somebody who’s not exactly calibrated in these things and he is seriously upset,” Isaacson said.

Musk, who also runs SpaceX and xAI, posted a stream of attacks against the Trump bill on X Wednesday.

NBC News reported that Musk had tried to convince Trump and other GOP members of the administration to change aspects of Trump’s bill that would curtail EV and residential solar tax credits, which generate profits for Tesla.

The measure would also impose a new annual $250 fee on EV drivers.

 
Bro check TSLA share price today lol

Tesla will recover from this soon enough but Trump’s house and legacy is falling apart at a time when he’s trying to play hard ball with the rest of the world.

All this change wange stuff seemed too good to be real always.
 
Friendship with benifits can't be live longer.

Trump and Elon are the best example of it.

:kp
 
Elon Musk is in red hot form right now and spilling beans like Trumo being named in Epstein Files and all without care in the world.

I think sooner or later we might get to hear about the India-Pakistan thing too.

Elon has nothing to care now. He’s already done a lot of damage to Trump.

Allegations in India are that Trump used tarring threats to bring Indian attacks to halt.
 
Mods please add poll so we know who here is #TeamMusk and who is #TeamTrump in this epic clash of the billionaire titans feud.
 
Modi should treat Trump and Musk like this. :inti

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Trump 'very disappointed' by Musk as row explodes into public

US President Donald Trump says he was "very surprised" and "disappointed" with former ally Elon Musk's criticisms of his centrepiece budget bill.

"Elon and I had a great relationship. I don't know if we will anymore," Trump told reporters in the White House on Thursday.

It was the president's most direct criticism yet of Musk's lobbying efforts against the proposals to cut taxes and slash government spending - a plan that has drawn criticism from Musk and some Republicans.

In response, Musk doubled down on X and accused the president of "Such ingratitude", adding: "Without me, Trump would have lost the election".

Musk left his post at the Department of Government Efficiency last week after 129 days on the job, and Trump presented him with a with a golden key during a congratulatory news conference on 30 May.

But in the days since, he has repeatedly criticised Trump's budget bill currently working its way through Congress, calling it a "disgusting abomination" and posting "Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong."

The bill passed the House with the backing of most Republicans, with a handful of representatives from Trump's party and all Democrats opposed.

Speaking to reporters during a news conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday, Trump said: "We are doing things in that bill that are unbelievable.

"I'm very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here," he said. "All of a sudden he had a problem."

"He hasn't said bad about me personally, but I'm sure that will be next."

Put in charge of radically slashing government spending, Musk initiated mass sackings and wholesale elimination of departments such as the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

Doge claims to have saved $180bn, although that number has been disputed, and is well short of Musk's initial aim to cut spending by up to $2 trillion.

Source: BBC
They are both narcissist, evil and dishonest but because this can do immense damage to both people will intervene and calm them down.
 
Elon is on drugs for sure. He is unstable and not fit to lead to a massive company like Tesla. He may be smart and brilliant guy. But his behavior is detrimental for Tesla. He has caused so much damage to Tesla brand in the last year or so. He alienated both Democrats and Republicans. Not sure who will buy his cars now.
I hope Tesla board fires Elon and put someone else as CEO. Elon should be in the background. Not the face of the company.
 
So far both these titans of $$$ stacks tied in the polls! Who will be the victor? Jo jeeta wohi sikandar.
 
Elon is on drugs for sure. He is unstable and not fit to lead to a massive company like Tesla. He may be smart and brilliant guy. But his behavior is detrimental for Tesla. He has caused so much damage to Tesla brand in the last year or so. He alienated both Democrats and Republicans. Not sure who will buy his cars now.
I hope Tesla board fires Elon and put someone else as CEO. Elon should be in the background. Not the face of the company.
But Trump is fit to lead the US? LMAO.
 
The feud between United States President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk continues to simmer, with a White House official telling reporters there are no plans for a call between the two men.


Al Jazeera
 
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