President Trump signaled Friday that he’s carried out together with his relationship-turned-feud with tech billionaire Elon Musk, telling reporters he’s not excited by making up together with his former prime adviser.
“There are efforts,” Trump mentioned about work to reconcile the duo. “However I’m probably not excited by that. I’m actually within the nation fixing issues, together with battle issues in very faraway lands.”
Whereas chatting with reporters on Air Drive One on his solution to New Jersey, Trump outlined his efforts to deliver down costs, which was a lot of the main target of his social media posts Friday relatively than Musk.
“Now we have no inflation now … we’d have decrease rates of interest if this man would decrease charges,” he mentioned, taking a jab at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
When requested for his opinion on Musk as of Friday night, the president mentioned he’s been busy engaged on worldwide points and that he hasn’t considered his former prime adviser.
“Truthfully, I’ve been so busy engaged on China, engaged on Russia, engaged on Iran … I’m not desirous about Elon Musk,” he mentioned. “I simply want him nicely.”
The White Home was seeking to flip the web page after the blowup between Trump and Musk the day prior, which grew more and more dramatic as Musk known as for Trump’s impeachment and linked him to the Jeffrey Epstein information.
The White Home shut down discuss of a possible name for the 2 males to reconcile, only a week after Musk formally departed from his authorities function on the helm of the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE). Within the days since his exit, the tech billionaire ramped up criticisms of the One Large Stunning Invoice Act, calling it a “disgusting abomination” and urging lawmakers to “kill the invoice.”
The president on Friday appeared bored with persevering with the spar that fully deteriorated his relationship with Musk.
He wouldn’t touch upon Musk’s alleged drug use, including that “it sounded very unfair” when The New York Times reported on it final week. And, he mentioned he thought the work of DOGE “helped us so much” and mentioned the work isn’t completed.
After he had raised the idea of canceling federal contracts and subsidies for Musk’s firms whereas sparring with him on social media, Trump mentioned he’d be trying on the contracts Musk has with the federal government.
“We’ll take have a look at all the things,” he mentioned, including that he’ll solely act if it’s “honest for him and the nation.”
“The U.S. can survive with out nearly anyone … besides me,” Trump added when pressed on how the U.S. will fare with out the contracts. He added that he hopes Musk “does nicely with Tesla.”