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Donald Trump attacked Elon Musk, accusing his billionaire that he was “hostile” of his administration, as a number between the two most powerful people in the world, escaped into the overall public hostility.
Speaking in an oval office on Thursday, the US president said he was “very disappointed” Will For criticizing his bill on signature taxes and suggested that he tried to defend his business interests.
“He is not the first … People leave my administration, and some of them actually become hostile” Trump In recent days, they said about the construction sides of Musk. “They leave, and they wake up in the morning, and the glamor is gone, the whole world is different, and they become hostile.”
He added: “I am very disappointed in Elon. I helped Elon very much.”
Trump’s comments bring an in -depth line with Musk, who saw a billionaire – opposed by the White House trading war As well as the president’s tax account – and some of his allies abruptly leave the administration.
Musk, who retreated from the policy from the “selection” against his business in April, suggested that he had sorry that he supported Trump from more than $ 250 million during the elections last year, after the president claimed that he would have won without cash billionaire.
“Without me, Trump would lose the election, Dems ruled the House, and the Republicans will be 51-49 in the Senate,” he said on his website on social media X shortly after the oval office. “Such a thanklessness.”
Stocks in Tesla declined more than 6 percent after Trump’s comments.
Musk, who still abstained from Trump’s attack, also suggested that the president abandoned his principles of federal expenses on Thursday.
Billionaire who is upset that Tax account The US deficit has now increased by the US Trillions, Trump stressed old positions in which he was critical of Republicans for increasing debt.
The billionaire also refused Trump’s proposal that he opposed the “great beautiful bill” because he outlined tax benefits for electric cars and pure energy that had long been benefiting Tesla.
“Keep in the EV/Solar Incentive Bill, although no subsidies for oil and gas are affected (very unfair!
A fracture between the former “first friend” and the president have now spread through Washington. Last week, Trump pulled out the nomination of the billionaire of the astronaut Jared Isaacman, a close ally of Musk to head NASA, as if he had made the contribution to the past democratic candidates.
Isaacman, who was on the way to get two -party support from the Senate, disputed the justification of the White House for this decision.
“I don’t think the terms were a great coincidence,” Isaacman said in the “all-in” on Wednesday. “I suppose that some people who had some axes and I had a good, visible goal.”
Musk has already announced that he was receiving his participation in the Trump administration, where he headed the so -called government efficiency (DOGE). Musk boasted that Dodge would cut trillion dollars from federal costs, although the savings were still much more modest.
According to a government official, Steve Davis, one of Musk Lieutenants in SpaceX, who headed Dage daily, also left the administration.
More senior figures close to the billionaire had to abandon the initiative in the coming days, the official said.
Musk himself suggested that the tax bill would destroy any savings made by Dogel, which claims that it was found approximately $ 180 billion to date. On Wednesday, Congress’s fiscal watch said that by 2034 the legislation would add $ 2.4 TN to US debt.
On Thursday, Musk refused Trump’s proposal that he knew in the bill, and only after he went to Washington. “False, this bill has never been shown to me even once and was transferred to the night at night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it!”
