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Trump: ‘I’m very disappointed in Elon’
Questions pivot back to domestic US issues – Trump is asked about Elon Musk’s criticism of the president’s “big, beautiful bill”.
The president says he’s always liked Musk, and was surprised to see the criticism.
Trump says the bill is incredible and a “huge tax cut”, and he’d rather Musk criticise him than the bill – it’s his view that Musk is upset because the administration took out the Electric Vehicle (EV) mandate.
Musk knew this from the beginning, Trump says, but he knows it “disturbed” him.
Trump also reveals that Musk recommended someone he knows to run Nasa, but Trump says he didn’t think it was appropriate.
“I can understand why he’s upset,” Trump says.
“Elon and I had a great relationship, I don’t know if we will anymore,” Trump says, adding that Musk is not the first to leave his administration and “some get hostile”, labelling it “Trump derangement syndrome”.
Musk had a wonderful send-off, Trump says, pointing to Musk’s hat that said “Trump was right about everything”.
“And I am right about the great big beautiful bill,” Trump tells the Oval Office.
For context: Musk posted to social media that the bill was an “abomination”