President Trump told NBC News that he believes his relationship with Elon Musk is over, telling them he has no desire to try and repair their relationship.
Trump also said that Musk would face ‘serious consequences’ if he funded Democrat candidates against Republicans who support the Big Beautiful Bill.
Here’s more from NBC News:
President Donald Trump on Saturday said there would be “serious consequences” if tech mogul Elon Musk funds Democratic candidates to run against Republicans who vote in favor of the GOP’s sweeping budget bill.
“If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC News in a phone interview, but declined to share what those consequences would be.
“He’ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that,” he added.
The president also said he has no desire to repair his relationship with Musk after a feud between the two men erupted into public view earlier this week.
“No,” Trump said when asked if he had any wish to do so.
Asked if he thought his relationship with the Tesla and SpaceX CEO was over, Trump said, “I would assume so, yeah.”
Trump’s comments were the most extensive since he and Musk exchanged threats and attacks on X and Truth Social earlier this week. He added that he thought the Republican Party was more unified than ever after the two men fell out in front of the world.
Trump said he has no plans to speak with Musk anytime soon. “I’m too busy doing other things,” he said, adding, “I have no intention of speaking to him.”
Trump also accused Musk of being “disrespectful to the office of the President.”
“I think it’s a very bad thing, because he’s very disrespectful. You could not disrespect the office of the President,” he added.
It’s also being reported by Fox News that Elon Musk has now deleted his accusatory and angry tweets about President Trump:
Elon Musk appears to be backtracking on some of the wild accusations he made during his ugly spat with President Donald Trump earlier this week.
Musk sensationally posted on Thursday that the president’s name appears in unreleased Jeffrey Epstein files — and said that’s why the files haven’t been made public.
“@RealDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files,” Musk wrote on X. “That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”
Musk followed the post with another, saying, “Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out.”
But eagle-eyed online sleuths noticed that Musk had quietly deleted the posts.
The former “First Buddy” dropped the allegation in response to a back-and-forth series of social media messages between him and Trump. But as of today, the post has been removed from the Tesla CEO’s timeline.
The post wasn’t the only one he deleted: Musk also appears to have taken down a post endorsing a message that read, “Trump should be impeached” and that Vance “should replace him.”
Musk shared the post and wrote “yes,” but his comment is no longer visible.
I’m glad Elon is deleting his tweets because it shows, perhaps, that he regrets putting them out there, and that’s the first step to repairing their relationship, at least to some degree.