The feud between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk is back on.
After Musk has railed against Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill in recent days, as GOP leaders struggle to get it across the finish line, the president took the opportunity to lash out at him.
On Tuesday, the Daily Mail’s Emily Goodin asked Trump if he would deport Musk, and the president responded, “I don’t know. We’ll have to take a look. We may have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible?”
The Department of Government Efficiency is the effort to slahs the size of the federal government that was led by Musk until late May. That was followed days later by a very public falling out between Musk and Trump, with the billionaire accusing the president of being linked to Jeffrey Epstein. Trump against said that Musk was upset that the legislation terminates the electric vehicle mandate, something that benefits his company Tesla.
Earlier, on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “Elon Musk knew, long before he so strongly Endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV Mandate. It is ridiculous, and was always a major part of my campaign. Electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one. Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa. No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE. Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!”
Musk and Trump had a detente in recent weeks, but the tensions flared back up as the Tesla CEO again went after the Big, Beautiful Bill, saying that it would force the U.S. into “debt slavery.” He has also revived his idea of creating a third party, and warned of the legislation’s rollback of clean energy initiatives. Musk wrote on Sunday, “A massive strategic error is being made right now to damage solar/battery that will leave America extremely vulnerable in the future.”
