President Trump insisted Friday morning that he’s not ruminating over his explosive fallout with tech billionaire Elon Musk a day earlier.
“I’m not even thinking about Elon,” Trump told CNN’s Dana Bash in a phone call. “He’s got a problem. The poor guy’s got a problem.”
The president also signaled that he doesn’t expect to make up with the tech mogul in the near future, despite ongoing attempts by their mutual allies to broker a truce and Musk’s subtle acknowledgment that he may be inclined to put their issues aside.
“I won’t be speaking to him for a while, I guess, but I wish him well,” Trump told Bash.
Trump and Musk took aim at each other as their previously close relationship came to an explosive end Thursday. Cracks in their alliance had begun to show in recent days as Musk took aim the House GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
The tax and spending measure — a key component of the president’s domestic policy agenda for his second term — narrowly passed the House last month and is currently up for review in the Senate.
Musk, who left his role in Trump’s administration under the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency last week, has argued that the Trump-backed bill doesn’t cut spending enough and will increase the federal debt.
Trump, meanwhile, suggested that Musk was upset that the proposal doesn’t include subsidies for electric vehicles that would benefit Tesla, the automaker Musk owns.
A senior White House official told NewsNation’s Tanya Noury on Friday that the president plans to sell or give away the Tesla that he purchased earlier this year after the company faced backlash over Musk’s White House work.
