Elon Musk Hits Back at Trump After His Surprise Outreach Attempt
Elon Musk, the billionaire and former chief of the “Department of Government of the Government” of the White House, slapped a branch of Olivier extended by the president on Thursday, keeping the quarrel between them alive.
Earlier in the day, Trump had taken To his platform, Truth Social, reject what he said was a widespread perception that he plans to “destroy” Musk’s companies by withdrawing “the large-scale subsidies that he receives” from the government.
On the contrary, the president said: “I want Elon, and all the companies in our country, prosper.”
The apparent sign of goodwill came only a few days after the Pentagon awarded the Musk Xai company $ 200 million contract.
Musk challenged Trump’s veracity of subsidies and said his businesses have won their government contracts to merit.
On its own platform, X, the billionaire wrote: “The” subsidies “which he simply speaks do not exist. DJT has already deleted or put an expiration date on all durable energy support while leaving massive oil and intact gas grants. ” Trump’s tax and expenditure plan adopted last month, Understood A number of unfavorable provisions for electric vehicle companies like Musk’s Tesla.
Musk also said that his space technology company, SpaceX, had obtained its NASA contracts “by doing a better job for less money”.
In a follow -up jobMusk seemed to ridicule Trump’s promise not to “destroy” his businesses, write, “phew”.
Trump and Musk are famous, have been in Loggerheads since the billionaire, who had once stylish called “Full of pork” and “abomination”.
In the public confrontation that followed last month, Trump threat To terminate government grants and contracts with Musk companies. He even suggested Sicing Musk of Doge on his former manager, assignment: “Elon can get more grant than any human being in history, by far….
Musc blows against Trump understood the threat of creating a new political party and alleging that Trump “is in Epstein files”. Musk removed the post in which he made this last accusation (although he was corroborated by THE Wall Street Journal‘s report This week, the Ministry of Justice in May informed Trump that his name appears several times in the files).
While Musk said that some of his insults towards Trump were going “too far”, the billionaire continued, even since Trump’s attempt to make amends, to criticize the administration for his inability to ensure total transparency on the case of the notorious pedophile (another former friend of the President). In particular, on the 2024 campaign path, Musk had promised The fact that the list of Epstein customers, which, according to the GM, earlier this month, is nonexistent, would become public under Trump.
