President Donald Trump said on Saturday that there will be “severe consequences” if the technology pole with Luna Musk funded the democratic candidates to run against Republicans who vote for the comprehensive budget bill for the Republican Party.
“If he does, he will have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC News in an interview on a phone.
He added, “He will have to pay very serious consequences if he does.”
The president also said that he has no desire to reform his relationship with musk after a conflict between the two men It broke out in public opinion Earlier this week.
“No,” Trump said when asked if he had any desire to do so.
When asked whether he believed his relationship with the CEO of Tesla and Spacex has ended, Trump said, “I will assume that, yes.”
Trump’s comments were the most comprehensive since he exchanged and grabbed threats and attacks on X and Truth Social earlier this week. He added that he believed that the Republican Party was more uniform than ever after the two men fell in front of the world.
Trump said he had no plans to talk to musk anytime soon. He said, “I am very busy doing other things,” adding: “I have no intention to talk to him.”
Trump also accused Mousse of “not respected the president’s office.”
He added: “I think it is very bad, because it is very unbelievable. You cannot do not respect the president’s office.”
On Thursday, Musk launched a barrage of function The links between the president and the perpetrator late Jeffrey Epstein.
“This is called” old news “, this old news, which was talked about for years,” said Trump on Saturday. “Even the Epstein’s lawyer said he had nothing to do with her. It is old news.”
In the days before its general fall, Musk was criticizing the draft spending law led by the Republican Party approved by the House of Representatives last month.
In the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump responded to Musa’s criticism, saying to reporters: “I am very disappointed because Elon knew the internal actions of this law. I am very disappointed in Elon. Elon helped a lot.”
Soon after these comments, Musk launched a wave of posts, including a post that has now been deleted to enhance a Trump’s invitation to isolate him And another where the president’s tariff agenda said It would cause stagnation Later this year.
Trump also responded on Thursday with his own participation in the social truth. In one post, it is books“I don’t mind that Elon turns against me, but he should have done so for months,” which indicates that Musk knows what was in the bill before it was passed.
It is too books On Thursday, “the easiest way to save money in our budget, billions and billions of dollars, is to finish Elon’s government subsidies and contracts,” referring to federal contracts with SpaceX. “I have always been surprised that Biden did not do it!”
On Saturday, Trump said he had not submitted his proposal to cancel the federal contracts for Musk companies after that.
He said: “I am allowed to do so, but I did not think about it.”
Trump also responded to calls from outside the allies, such as conservative activist Steve Bannon, who said MUSK trade and immigration record should be investigated by the federal government.
President NBC News told that he had not had these talks. “I mean, it is not something on my mind now,” Trump said.
It also sparked the idea that Musk’s opposition to the “Great Baby Law” law endangered the chances of the bill in success, saying that it is “very confident” that the draft law will practice the Senate before July 4.
“The Republican Party has not been unified before,” Trump said. “It was not. It was in reality more than it was three days ago,” Trump said.
Musk contributed to the main financial support in the Trump presidential offer in 2024, and the spending More than a quarter of a billion dollars To strengthen it in the swinging states last year. In the first months of the administration, Trump Musk, responsible for the Ministry of Governmental efficiency, was placed, as he supervised the demobilization of federal workers and the partial closure of many agencies.
Trump said that the dispute made legislators see the benefits of the bill.
“I think, in fact, that Elon has brought out strengths in the draft law because people who were not focused began to focus on, and they see how good it is,” Trump said. “So in this sense, there was a great favor. But I think Elon really, I think it is a shame that he is very depressed and very sad.”
During an interview with “at the end of last week with Theo Phone”, which was registered on Thursday but was released on Saturday, Vice President JD Vance described MUSK attacks on Trump as a “nuclear” and said that it may not be possible to “MUSK to return to the barn.”
“I will always be loyal to the president, and I hope Elon will eventually return to the barn,” Vans told PodCaster Theo Von. “Perhaps this is not possible now because it is very nuclear gold.”
The Vice President also described it as a “big mistake” that Musk targets the president because of his frustrations of the parliament version of the draft law, saying: “The process is in the capital, if you are a leader, then you may feel frustrated by this process because it is more, as you know, bureaucracy, it is more slow.”
He added: “I think there are some frustrations there. But I really, man, I think it is a big mistake for him to follow the president like that.”
