President Trump responded to Elon Musk’s thrashing of the Big Beautiful Act and its spending levels, sparking a very public feud between the two.
Trump told reporters on Thursday that Musk is seemingly “upset because we took the EV mandate” and suggested he was also unhappy that Trump pulled the nomination of Musk’s friend, Jared Isaacman, for NASA administrator.
The Big Beautiful Bill is currently being negotiated in the Senate after passing the House last month by a razor-thin margin.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Musk posted a scathing message on X, saying he “just can’t stand it anymore.” He continued, “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,” shaming legislators who voted in favor. “You know you did wrong. You know it.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, however, told reporters on Tuesday that Trump “knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill” and “It doesn’t change the President’s opinion.”
Musk came out again on Thursday, highlighting an old tweet where President Trump said he was “embarrassed” by the Republicans because they were extending the debt ceiling in 2013, a position he has since reversed, now calling for the elimination of the debt ceiling. “Wise words,” said Musk on X.
He further commented, “I couldn’t agree more!” on a 2012 post from Trump, where Trump said, “No member of Congress should be eligible for re-election if our country’s budget is not balanced—deficits not allowed!”
During a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday, Trump was asked about Musk’s comments, and he fired off, signaling the end of thier once-“great relationship.”
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Trump: You know, I’ve always liked Elon, and I was very surprised. You saw the words he had for me, the words, and he hasn’t said anything about me that’s bad. I’d rather have him criticize me than the bill because the bill is incredible. It’s the biggest cut in the history of our country. We’ve never cut— it’s about 1.6 trillion in cuts. It’s the biggest tax cut. You would say people’s taxes will go way down, but it’s the biggest tax cut in history. We are doing things in that bill that are unbelievable. And when you look at what we’re doing for small businesses, for people, for middle-income people, all of the things that we’re doing, nobody’s ever seen anything like it.
And you know, Elon is upset because we took the EV mandate, which was a lot of money for electric vehicles, and they’re having a hard time, the electric vehicles. And they want us to pay billions of dollars in subsidy. And, you know, Elon knew this from the beginning. He knew it for a long time ago. That’s been in there. That’s been, I would say, JD, that hasn’t changed. That’s been right from the beginning. I think, Mr. Secretary, that hasn’t changed at all, right from the beginning. But I know that disturbed him. He wanted, rightfully, he recommended somebody from that he, I guess, knew very well. I’m sure he respected him, but to run NASA, and I didn’t think was appropriate. And he happened to be a Democrat, like totally Democrat. And I say, you know, we won. We get certain privileges, and one of the privileges we don’t have to appoint a Democrat. NASA is very important. We have great people. General Kane is going to be picking somebody with our— we’ll be we’ll be checking him out and seeing. But he wanted that person, a certain person, and we said no and, you know, I can understand why he’s upset. Remember he was here for a long time. You saw a man who was very happy when he stood behind the Oval desk. And even with the black eye, I said, you want a little makeup? We’ll get you a little makeup. But he said, No, I don’t think so, which is interesting and very nice. He wants to be who he is. So you could make that statement too, I guess.
Look, Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will anymore. I was surprised because you were here. Everybody in this room practically was here as we had a wonderful send-off. He said wonderful things about me. You couldn’t have nicer. He said the best things, he’s worn that hat, “Trump was right about everything,” and I am right about the great Big Beautiful Bill. We call it a great Big Beautiful Bill because that’s what it is. And again, biggest tax cuts in history, biggest economic development moves anywhere. We’ve never done anything like it. Businesses spurred, and I don’t know if you’ve seen the numbers, but the numbers came out. Even the CBO, which is run by Democrats, said that we’re going to be doing— you know, I’d like [Secretary Scott Bessent] to discuss it the $2.8 trillion that CBO— this is something, a group of people that are Democrats —they’re very hostile to us —They just came out with phenomenal numbers.
Elon responded with a series of X posts, shrugging off Trump’s comments by saying “whatever.”
“Keep the EV/solar incentive cuts in the bill, even though no oil & gas subsidies are touched (very unfair!!), but ditch the MOUNTAIN of DISGUSTING PORK in the bill,” he said, calling the bill “big and ugly.”
Whatever.
Keep the EV/solar incentive cuts in the bill, even though no oil & gas subsidies are touched (very unfair!!), but ditch the MOUNTAIN of DISGUSTING PORK in the bill.
In the entire history of civilization, there has never been legislation that both big and beautiful.…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 5, 2025
Musk then said he never saw the bill and claimed it “was passed in the dead of night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it.”
False, this bill was never shown to me even once and was passed in the dead of night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it! https://t.co/V4ztekqd4g
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 5, 2025
Musk has reposted several other X posts criticizing Trump over past statements about the national debt.
This is a developing story.
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