President Donald Trump on Friday night took numerous questions from the press about the rift with billionaire Elon Musk, who recently attacked Trump on his social media platform, X.
The president repeatedly said he hopes Musk’s company Tesla does well and praised Musk’s brainchild, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), but said he’s “not really interested” in working toward reconciliation.
“There are efforts — I’ve been asked about it,” Trump said of outsiders trying to get the pair back together. “But I’m not really interested in it. I’m really interested in the country and solving problems, including war problems in very far away lands.”
Trump also said he’ll look at potentially canceling government contracts with Musk’s companies, only if it’s “fair.”
“We’ll take a look at everything. He gets a lot of subsidy, so we’ll take a look at that — only if it’s fair for him, and for the country, I would certainly think about it, yeah. But it has to be fair,” the president said. “I hope he does well with Tesla. I just wish him well.”
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Trump made a similar statement on Truth Social, writing, “The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!”
On reports of Musk’s alleged drug use, POTUS took to hitting the media. “I don’t want to comment on his drug use, I don’t know what his status is,” he said. “I read an article in The New York Times — I thought it was, frankly, it sounded very unfair to me.”
This past week, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Musk’s statements on Trump were a reaction to not getting what he wanted in the reconciliation bill.
“This is an unfortunate episode from Elon,” she said in a statement to The Daily Wire, “who is unhappy with the One Big, Beautiful Bill because it does not include the policies he wanted.”
“The president is focused on passing this historic piece of legislation and making our country great again,” Leavitt added.
WATCH:
Trump just answered a lot of questions tonight about Elon, as well as his companies. Here were his responses to each question:
Trump tonight on Elon Musk: “I hope he does well with Tesla. I just wish him well.”
Trump on if he will cancel Elon’s companies government contracts:… pic.twitter.com/2jnaYtmQXj
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