President Trump’s ex-personal attorney Michael Cohen on Saturday said that Trump isn’t done with tech billionaire Elon Musk yet, after tensions between the two men became incredibly heated in a public social media spat last week.
“They’re going to really go after Elon Musk like nobody has seen, ever, in this country, because they can,” Cohen told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi.
“And one thing Elon doesn’t understand is this political guerilla warfare that they’re going to conduct against him,” he added.
On Thursday, a fight between Musk and Trump over the president’s “big, beautiful bill” earlier in the week escalated rapidly on Musk’s X platform and Trump’s Truth Social platform. The president said the tech billionaire “just went CRAZY!” and threatened Musk’s government contracts. Musk alleged that Trump had ties to convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein on X.
The public spat followed the end of Musk’s recent service in the Trump administration and an alliance with the president that appeared to start off strong. Musk endorsed Trump in July 2024 in the wake of Trump surviving an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.
Musk’s administration service was marked by intense backlash from those on the left and Democrats over actions taken by Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on the federal government.
“He doesn’t care about Elon Musk,” Cohen said in his MSNBC appearance, talking about Trump. “He used Elon Musk for what he needed. Initially it was the money, so that he didn’t have to lay out any of his own, and also, more importantly, for his access with X.”
The Hill has reached out to the White House and X for comment.
