White House declines to confirm reports of a Trump-Musk call today
Could there be peace on the horizon? Politico reported last night that Trump was due to call Elon Musk today in an attempt to halt the spiraling fallout and “broker a peace.”
But when NBC News asked Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, about this, she said, “There are no plans for that today.”
A senior White House official told NBC News that Trump is “not interested in Elon call.”
An administration official added, “There could be anything — I’d like to de-escalate a very unfortunate situation. But there are no calls on the books, at least not now.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said of Trump, “The president is focused on the OBBB,” referring to the GOP bill containing much of Trump’s policy agenda. “That’s the mindset he left the Oval Office in yesterday.”