President Trump and Elon Musk both seem to be moving on after their ugly public feud on Thursday that seemed to tear up their alliance.
Trump said Friday he did not want to talk with Musk on the phone and focused his social media remarks on jobs and the economy.
Musk separately offered a small peace signal late Thursday, writing a reply on social platform X to Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman, an ally of both men who has sought to cool tensions on the right on various issues before.
“I support @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk and they should make peace for the benefit of our great country,” Ackman said. “We are much stronger together than apart.”
Musk posted a reply: “true.”
Musk later posted on X about various business ventures, a shift from yesterday’s heated rhetoric.
Follow along for developments on the implosion of the Trump-Musk relationship and more.
Democrats fundraise off Trump-Musk feud
Democrats are fundraising off the feud between President Trump and Elon Musk.
The bad blood between in MAGA world is good news for beleaguered Democrats who have had their own turmoil week after week.
“With Elon Musk and Trump clashing over the fate of the GOP’s Big Ugly Bill, we knew our moment to get ahead had arrived — but we needed this team to stand with us,” a copy of the fundraiser stated.
“So we asked for your help to pull off a HISTORIC day of grassroots fundraising.”
Musk shows signs of moving on
Elon Musk is tweeting on Friday, but not about President Trump or the “big, beautiful bill” that triggered their feud.
A few minutes ago, he posted about Starlink being set up for Dominica.
Earlier, he congratulated a Tesla team in Berlin.
It’s a far cry from calls for Trump’s impeachment and threats about the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Musk-Trump go from boom to bust
The history of the relationship between President Trump and tech mogul Elon Musk is relatively short, but fascinating.
Just last week, Trump presented a ceremonial key to Musk at the White House. But on Thursday, the two were trading personal insults, and threatening to hurt each other’s business and political prospects.
Here’s a look at what happened in between.
Jeffries declines to embrace Musk amid the billionaire’s feud with Trump
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is keeping his distance from Elon Musk even after the billionaire’s extraordinary public rebuke of President Trump and the GOP’s domestic agenda.
Asked Friday if Musk’s bitter break from Trump presents Democrats with an opportunity to form a strange-bedfellows alliance with the tech titan, Jeffries shifted the conversation immediately to the Democrats’ efforts to kill Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
“The opportunity that exists right now is to kill the GOP tax scam,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol. “It’s legislation that we have been strongly opposed to, and uniformly opposed to, from the very beginning. … It rips health care away from millions of people. It snatches food out of the mouths of hungry children. And it rewards billionaires and [GOP] donors in ways that are fiscally irresponsible.”
Pressed on whether Musk should be “welcomed back” to the Democratic Party after the high-profile split from Trump, Jeffries punted again.
“Same answer,” he said.
Trump seeks to move on from nasty Musk feud
There’s no question that the White House and President Trump want to move on from the ugliness Thursday with Elon Musk.
Trump doesn’t want to talk to Musk, report The Hill’s Brett Samuels and Alex Gangitano, and he does want to get rid of the Tesla at the White House.
But the White House sees the fight as a negative and is ready to move on.
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Trump: ‘I’m not even thinking about Elon’
President Trump insisted Friday morning that he’s not ruminating over his explosive fallout with tech billionaire Elon Musk a day earlier.
“I’m not even thinking about Elon,” Trump told CNN‘s Dana Bash in a phone call. “He’s got a problem. The poor guy’s got a problem.”
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Greene backs Trump in feud: ‘Don’t think lashing out on the internet’ is how to handle disagreement
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is firmly on President Trump’s side in his dispute with Elon Musk.
She responded to Musk’s references to spending hoards of money in the 2024 election cycle.
“Every single one of those votes, no matter how much money they have, matter, and they’re the same, whether it was $1 or 100 donated, or hundreds of millions of dollars donated, I think they’re all the same,” she said. “And I think each voice really matters. And I don’t think lashing out on the internet is the way to handle any kind of disagreement, especially when you have each other’s cell phones.”
Trump talks jobs, seeking to move on from Musk fight
President Trump is talking up jobs on Truth Social, and not firing insults at Elon Musk.
“GREAT JOB NUMBERS, STOCK MARKET UP BIG! AT THE SAME TIME, BILLIONS POURING IN FROM TARIFFS!!!” Trump wrote in his usual all-caps style on Friday morning.
The president is locked in a public feud with Musk, who bankrolled his campaign and worked at his side to cut the size of the federal government.
But he seems to want to talk about other things Friday after the ugly sniping of a day before.
Speaker Johnson says he hopes Musk, Trump reconcile
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Friday morning said he hopes Trump and Musk reconcile — but not to second guess Trump.
“I was with the president in the Oval Office yesterday afternoon as some of this was unfolding, and I can tell you, as he said in his own words, he was just, he was disappointed, and I was surprised by Elon’s sudden opposition,” Johnson said.
“And look, I hope they reconcile. I believe in redemption. That’s part of my worldview, and I think it’s good for the party and the country if all that’s worked out. But I’ll tell you what, do not doubt and do not second guess and don’t ever challenge the president United States, Donald Trump. He is the leader of the party, he’s the most consequential political figure of this generation, in probably the modern era, and he’s doing an excellent job for the people.”
Ocasio-Cortez calls Trump-Musk feud predictable
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that she thinks President Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk’s falling out was predictable because of the pair’s outsized egos.
“You know, I would say that this was something that was a long time coming, where we’ve been seeing that these two huge egos were not long for being together in this world as friends,” Ocasio-Cortez told a Spectrum News reporter near the Capitol.
Musk on Trump time left in office: ‘I will be around for 40+ years’
Tech billionaire Elon Musk emphasized his relative youth compared to President Trump amid his war of words against his onetime ally, claiming he will live much longer than Trump will be in office.
Musk was responding to a Thursday post on social platform X from right-wing activist Laura Loomer, as the Tesla CEO sent out his flurry of posts attacking the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” and claiming credit for Trump’s electoral victory in November.
Loomer said she knows of lawmakers who were asking if they should side with Trump or Musk in the battle and described the public faceoff as “the most powerful man in the world vs the richest man in the world.”
Navarro ‘not glad or whatever’ about Musk exit
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro told reporters early Friday he is “not glad or whatever” about Elon Musk’s exit, comments that came one day after Musk and President Trump publicly feuded online.
“I’m not glad or whatever … People come and go from the White House,” Navarro said when asked whether he was glad to see Musk “out of the fray,” given their disagreements over tariffs.
Trump reiterates calls for Fed to cut interest rates
Trump on Friday morning called for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to reduce interest rates, saying it could help with the nation’s debt.
“If ‘Too Late’ at the Fed would CUT, we would greatly reduce interest rates, long and short, on debt that is coming due. Biden went mostly short term. There is virtually no inflation (anymore), but if it should come back, RAISE ‘RATE’ TO COUNTER. Very Simple!!! He is costing our Country a fortune. Borrowing costs should be MUCH LOWER!!!” Trump said on Truth Social.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned Congress to raise the debt ceiling by mid-July to avoid default and plans to raise the nation’s debt ceiling by $4 trillion was included in the House-passed “big, beautiful bill.”
Trump earlier this week also called for scraping the debt ceiling, pressing for bipartisan action to abolish it.
Meanwhile, he has been pressuring Powell for months to lower interest rates while the Fed chair has defended not acting as the central bank waits to see how the president’s whipsaw trade policies and tax cut plans affect a sturdy U.S. economy.
House Dem: Lawmakers ‘had wagers going’ on Trump, Musk implosion
Some members of Congress believed the implosion of President Trump’s relationship with tech billionaire Elon Musk was so inevitable that they were wagering on how long it would last, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas) suggested Thursday.
“We had wagers going on the floor: Is this relationship going to last three months? Is it going to last six months?” Gonzalez told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in an interview. “I don’t think anyone thought it was going to last a year.”
“I don’t think you needed to be a genius, though, to foresee that this eruptive and public display of divorce was going to happen at some point,” he added.
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Comedian Adam Friedland: Trump, Musk feud shows they’re both ‘in pain’
Comedian and podcast host Adam Friedland said the recent spat between President Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk shows both men are hurting and lashing out at one another in frustration.
“I’m a blue comedian, but I don’t know if its right to forget that we are adults here and someone is suffering,” Friedland told host Chris Cuomo Thursday evening during an appearance on NewsNation’s “CUOMO.”
“If you look at the tweets today, these gentlemen are in pain,” he continued. “And I think we live in a tremendously lonely time right now and so we forget how painful it is to lose a friend.”
More here.
Trump gets good news on jobs front
President Trump is at least waking up to a solid jobs report.
Amid his public feud with Elon Musk, new jobs figures were released that show the economy added 139,000 jobs in May.
It’s not a spectacular number bit it’s a strong report that Trump would like to focus on.
Trump-Musk ‘big, beautiful brawl’ shouldn’t impede passing bill, says GOP lawmaker
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) during a Thursday interview on The Hill on NewsNation that the bitter public feud between President Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk should not stop Congress from eventually passing the president’s massive “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
“This isn’t about choosing sides. This is two individuals who have a big, beautiful brawl. Let’s call it that, right?” Ogles said.
He said the bill containing Trump’s first-year legislative agenda is definitely big, but “not quite beautiful yet”
Trump to sell or give away his Tesla
Say goodbye to the White House’s Tesla.
President Trump plans to either give away or sell the TESLA he purchased, a senior White House official told NewsNation’s Tanya Noury.
The car is currently parked at the White House.
Selling the car will just solidify further the nasty breakup between Tesla chief Elon Musk and Trump.
Bannon on Trump, Musk implosion: ‘We’re going to go to f—ing war’
Former White House chief strategist and MAGA stalwart Steve Bannon leaned into his tirade against Elon Musk after the world’s richest man got into a public feud with President Trump, warning the tech billionaire that “we’re going to go to f—ing war.”
“The president treated him almost like a son. He invited his family to Christmas dinner. He let him sleep over. He let him walk in and out of meetings,” Bannon, an ardent skeptic of Musk, said in an interview with Politico that was published late Thursday. “The president went to the max informality to welcome this guy.”
Problems proliferate in Senate for Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’
Problems are multiplying for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and other Senate negotiators in their bid to pass legislation to enact President Trump’s agenda by July 4.
Some Republican senators are barraging leadership with concerns about spending cuts for Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), while budget hawks are demanding more deficit reduction and railing against a House compromise to lift the cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions.
Tesla stock rebounds as Trump, Musk feud shows signs of cooling
Electric vehicle giant Tesla’s stock is on the rebound Friday morning as the public spat between CEO Elon Musk and President Trump shows signs of cooling.
The company’s stock went up by over 5 percent on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange after Politico reported late Thursday that Trump’s aides scheduled a call with Musk on Friday to tamp down the tensions, which escalated to new heights over social media.
Musk offers peace signal to Trump after all-out verbal war
Tech mogul Elon Musk offered a modest sign of peace toward the White House late Thursday after an all-out social media war with his ally, President Trump.
The peace signal was small and came in the form of a reply to an X post by Bill Ackman, the CEO of Pershing Square and an ally of both men who has sought to cool tensions on the right on various issues before.
5 takeaways from the explosive Trump-Musk divorce
The feud between President Trump and Elon Musk grew exponentially more bitter on Thursday.
The two exchanged volleys of insults that reached their pinnacle — or nadir, depending upon one’s perspective — when Musk alleged that files on the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein were being kept secret to protect Trump.
The fissure between the two men now yawns wide, less than a week after Musk officially left his position spearheading the quasi-official Department of Government Efficiency.