Trump warns Musk against funding Democrats, says he thinks their relationship is over
The Tesla CEO is making a ‘huge mistake’ going after the US president, VP J.D. Vance says
US President Donald Trump, in an interview with NBC News on Saturday, said there would be “serious consequences” if billionaire Elon Musk funds Democratic Party candidates to run against Republicans who vote for Trump’s sweeping tax-cut bill.
Trump declined to say what those consequences would be in the phone interview and went on to add that he had not had discussions about whether to investigate Musk.
Asked if he thought his relationship with the Tesla and SpaceX CEO was over, Trump said, “I would assume so, yeah.”
US Vice-President J.D. Vance had earlier said that Musk was making a “huge mistake” going after Trump in a storm of bitter and inflammatory social media posts after a falling-out between the two men.
But the vice-president, in an interview released on Friday after the very public blow-up between the world’s richest man and arguably the world’s most powerful, also tried to downplay Musk’s blistering attacks as an “emotional guy” who got frustrated.
“I hope that eventually Elon comes back into the fold. Maybe that’s not possible now because he’s gone so nuclear,” Vance said.