WASHINGTON — President Trump questioned his relationship with Elon Musk on Thursday after the tech mogul attacked the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — indicating their close alliance may be no more.
“Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will anymore,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office before his bilateral sit-down with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
“He hasn’t said bad about me personally, but I’m sure that’ll be next. But I’m very disappointed … I’ve helped Elon a lot.”
Musk has been on a three-day warpath against the Trump-endorsed reconciliation legislation in a slew of posts on X after departing as head of the Department of Government Efficiency on Friday, calling the measure “disgusting” and urging Congress to “kill the bill.”
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO publicly slammed the GOP proposal for potentially adding trillions to the deficit, and was privately irked by the removal of Biden-era tax credits for electric vehicles, among other grievances.
“He’s not the first. People leave my administration and they love us and then at some point they miss it so badly, and some of them embrace it and some of them actually become hostile. I don’t know what it is, it’s sort of Trump derangement syndrome, I guess they call it. … The glamor is gone, the whole world is different, and they become hostile,” Trump said of his former ally.
“I’m very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill,” the president added. “He never had a problem until right after he left.”
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