{"id":161263,"date":"2025-06-05T21:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T21:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/161263\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T21:42:09","slug":"spacex-will-decommission-dragon-spacecraft-says-musk-in-retaliation-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/161263\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft,\u2019 says Musk in retaliation to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Amid the escalating feud between tech billionaire Elon Musk and United States President Donald Trump, the former announced that his space firm SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately.<\/p>\n

\"Elon Elon Musk hammered the sprawling tax cuts and spending mega-bill that President Trump is trying to muscle through Congress as a “disgusting abomination.” (AFP) <\/p>\n

Musk made the announcement in response to Trump\u2019s statement about cancellation of his government contracts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn light of the President\u2019s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately,\u201d Musk<\/a> said in a post on X.<\/p>\n

This comes just hour after Trump<\/a> posted on his own social media platform Truth Social that the easiest way of saving billions of dollars in US’ budget is suspending Musk\u2019s governmental subsidies and contracts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon\u2019s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn\u2019t do it!\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n

According to SpaceX, the Dragon spacecraft is capable of carrying up to 7 passengers to and from Earth orbit, and beyond. \u201cIt is the only spacecraft currently flying that is capable of returning significant amounts of cargo to Earth, and is the first private spacecraft to take humans to the space station.\u201d says SpaceX<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Also read: Trump vs Musk feud turns ugly; Tesla CEO makes massive Epstein files claim<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump vs Musk feud<\/p>\n

The tech billionaire and the United States President are feuding over the former’s criticism of the \u2018Big Beautiful Bill\u2019.<\/p>\n

Before this, Musk on Thursday also claimed that Trump would’ve lost the 2024 election<\/a> if it was not for him. He also accused Trump of \u2018such ingratitude\u2019.<\/p>\n

Elon Musk on Tuesday criticised Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill, calling it a “disgusting abomination”. To this, Trump told reporters on Thursday that Musk is frustrated by the bill\u2019s cuts to electric-vehicle tax credits. \u201cI\u2019m very disappointed in Elon. I\u2019ve helped Elon a lot. He said the most beautiful things about me, and he hasn\u2019t said bad about me personally, but I\u2019m sure that\u2019ll be next.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the ongoing feud between the two, Musk also made a massive claim against Trump, saying that the latter is \u201cin the Epstein files\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTime to drop the really big bomb:@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein<\/a> files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!\u201d Musk said on X, platform formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n

\u201cMark this post for the future. The truth will come out,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid the escalating feud between tech billionaire Elon Musk and United States President Donald Trump, the former announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[32,295,67918,70,413,1603,67917,67916,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-161263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-elon-musk","10":"tag-elon-musk-vs-donald-trump","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-spacex","14":"tag-trump-and-musk-fight","15":"tag-trump-vs-musk","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114632939470039543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}