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President Donald Trump connected Saturday said determination would beryllium “serious consequences” if tech mogul Elon Musk funds Democratic candidates to tally against Republicans who ballot successful favour of the GOP’s sweeping fund bill.
“If helium does, he’ll person to wage the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC News successful a telephone interview, but declined to stock what those consequences would be.
“He’ll person to wage precise superior consequences if helium does that,” helium added.
The president besides said helium has nary tendency to repair his narration with Musk aft a feud betwixt the 2 men erupted into nationalist view earlier this week.
“No,” Trump said erstwhile asked if helium had immoderate privation to bash so.
Asked if helium thought his narration with the Tesla and SpaceX CEO was over, Trump said, “I would presume so, yeah.”
Trump’s comments were the astir extended since helium and Musk exchanged threats and attacks connected X and Truth Social earlier this week. He added that helium thought the Republican Party was much unified than ever aft the 2 men fell retired successful beforehand of the world.
Trump added that helium has nary plans to talk with Musk anytime soon, saying, “I’m excessively engaged doing different things” and “I person nary volition of speaking to him.”
Trump besides accused Musk of being “disrespectful to the bureau of the President.”
“I deliberation it’s a precise atrocious thing, due to the fact that he’s precise disrespectful. You could not disrespect the bureau of the President,” helium added.
Musk connected Thursday launched a barrage of posts connected X against the president, including a now-deleted station highlighting the onetime links betwixt the president and the precocious enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“That’s called ‘old news,’ that’s been aged news, that has been talked astir for years,” Trump said connected Saturday. “Even Epstein’s lawyer said I had thing to bash with it. It’s aged news.”
For days, Musk had been captious of a GOP-led spending measure that the House passed past month.
In the Oval Office connected Thursday, Trump responded to Musk’s criticisms, telling reporters, “I’m precise disappointed due to the fact that Elon knew the interior workings of this bill. I’m precise disappointed successful Elon. I’ve helped Elon a lot.”
Shortly aft those comments, Musk launched his flurry of posts, including promoting a station calling for Trump to beryllium impeached and different wherever helium said the president’s tariff agenda would origin a recession aboriginal this year.
Trump connected Thursday besides responded with his ain posts connected Truth Social. In 1 post, he wrote, “I don’t caput Elon turning against me, but helium should person done truthful months ago,” suggesting that Musk knew what was successful the measure earlier it was passed.
He also wrote connected Thursday, “The easiest mode to prevention wealth successful our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was ever amazed that Biden didn’t bash it!” referring to national contracts with SpaceX.
On Saturday, Trump said that helium hadn’t fixed his proposition astir canceling Musk’s companies’ national contracts immoderate much thought.
“I’d beryllium allowed to bash that,” helium said, “but I have, I haven’t fixed it immoderate thought.”
He besides formed uncertainty connected the conception that Musk’s absorption to the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” is jeopardizing the bill’s chances of success, saying he’s “very confident” that the measure volition walk the Senate earlier July 4.
“The Republican Party has ne'er been agreed similar this before. It’s ne'er been. It’s really much truthful than it was 3 days ago,” Trump said.
Musk contributed large fiscal enactment to Trump’s statesmanlike bid successful 2024, spending implicit a 4th of a cardinal dollars to boost him successful plaything states past year. In the archetypal months of the administration, Trump enactment Musk successful complaint of DOGE, wherever helium oversaw wide layoffs of national workers and the shuttering oregon partial closing of respective agencies.
The feud, Trump said, has made lawmakers spot the benefits of the bill.
“I think, actually, Elon brought retired the strengths of the measure due to the fact that radical that weren’t arsenic focused started focusing connected it, and they spot however bully it is,” Trump said. “So successful that sense, determination was a large favor. But I deliberation Elon, really, I deliberation it’s a shame that he’s truthful depressed and truthful heartbroken.”
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