Trump says relationship with Musk is over

US President Donald Trump has said his narration with Elon Musk is over.

"I would presume so, yeah," Trump told NBC News connected Saturday, erstwhile asked if helium thought the pair's adjacent narration had ended. He replied "No" erstwhile asked if helium wished to mend the damaged ties.

The comments were Trump's latest since the epic fallout betwixt him and Musk unravelled connected societal media.

It came aft the tech billionaire - who donated millions to Trump's predetermination run and became a White House adjutant - publically criticised the president's taxation and spending bill, a cardinal home policy.

A bulk of Republicans person fallen successful enactment down the president. Vice-President JD Vance said that Musk had "gone truthful nuclear" and whitethorn ne'er beryllium welcomed backmost into the fold.

Vance told podcaster Theo Von that it was a "big mistake" for the Tesla and SpaceX CEO to onslaught the president.

For weeks, Musk had been criticising Trump's signature authorities - dubbed the "Big Beautiful Bill" - arsenic it made its mode done Congress.

He said that, if passed, the measure would adhd trillions of dollars to the nationalist shortage and "undermine" the enactment helium did arsenic the caput of Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, and its efforts to chopped authorities spending.

Shortly aft leaving Doge aft 129 days successful the job, Musk posted connected his societal media tract X that the measure was a "disgusting abomination" - but did not criticise Trump directly.

On Thursday, however, Trump told reporters helium was "disappointed" with Musk's behaviour.

Musk responded with a flurry of posts connected X, saying that Trump would person mislaid the predetermination without him and accusing Trump of being implicated successful files of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died successful jailhouse awaiting enactment trafficking charges.

He has since deleted the station and Epstein's lawyer has travel retired denying the accusations.

Trump responded connected his societal media level Truth Social, saying that Musk had gone "crazy". In 1 post, helium threatened to chopped Musk's contracts with the national government.

In his interrogation with NBC News connected Saturday, Trump said Musk had been "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," Trump said.

Musk, the world's richest man, who donated astir $250m to Trump's statesmanlike campaign, suggested during the societal media feud that helium mightiness backmost immoderate of Trump's opponents during adjacent year's midterm elections, throwing his enactment down challengers to the lawmakers who supported Trump's taxation bill.

When asked astir the imaginable of Musk backing Democratic candidates that tally against Republicans, Trump said helium would look "serious consequences".