Elon Musk's Former Friend Claims He Is 'Going To Do Everything To Damage' Trump After Being 'Humiliated'
The Tesla owner stunned millions on X (formerly Twitter) when he made several bombshell allegations about the president, including a bold claim that Trump is the reason why the Jeffrey Epstein files have not been fully released.
While Elon Musk has since admitted that he regrets the remarks he made, a former friend of the billionaire, Philip Low, has shared that the tech mogul is "going to do everything to damage" Trump.
Low, a neuroscientist and Musk's former pal, who founded NeuroVigil, has made bleak remarks about the billionaire's feud with Trump, which saw the pair trade blows on social media.
According to Low, Musk doesn't move on easily from big fights with people, especially after being "humiliated."
"I've had my share of blowouts with Elon over the years," he told Politico. "Knowing Elon the way I know him, I do think he's going to do everything to damage the president."
Low also noted that the duo's attempt to patch things up publicly and present a united front was "purely cosmetic," implying that there's still bad blood between Musk and Trump.
"He has been humiliated," Low stated about his former friend. "The whole idea that Elon is going to be on his side and help woo Congress and invest in election campaigns for right-wing judges — Elon might do all of that, but deep down, it's over."
The former buddies seemingly fell out over what seemed to be differences in their approach to government spending after Trump launched the "One Big Beautiful Bill."
Musk, who was previously head of the Department of Government Efficiency, a department tasked with making the government more efficient by cutting spending and downsizing the federal workforce, slammed the bill as a "disgusting abomination" on X.
"Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it," he wrote at the time, adding that the bill "will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden America [sic] citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt."
After his criticism of Trump's bill, Musk made some unsettling posts about the president, including one where he dropped the "bomb" by alleging that the billionaire politician was on late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's list, and that was "the real reason they have not been made public."
In another explosive tweet, Musk claimed that Trump couldn't have won the 2024 elections without him, a tweet that seemingly irritated the president.
"Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House, and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate," Musk said. He added: "Such ingratitude."
The tech mogul even suggested at one point that Trump should be impeached and replaced by Vice President JD Vance.
He had previously shared how some of Trump's officials undermined his role at DOGE and never took seriously his efforts to reduce government spending.
David Schoen, who was Epstein's attorney, swiftly addressed speculations suggesting the disgraced financier had information on Trump after Musk's bombshell remarks.
Schoen claimed that Epstein told him he did not have any dirt on Trump and that he would have used it to his advantage if he did.
"What I can say definitively is that I discussed this subject with Mr. Epstein at a time when it would have been in his best interests to implicate others, and he made clear that Donald Trump did nothing wrong and that he had no damaging information against him," Schoen said, per TMZ.
A few days after his public fight with Trump, Musk took to his X social media platform to admit that he regretted some of the posts he made about the president.
"I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week," the Tesla boss wrote. "They went too far."
Trump, on the other hand, shared that he was "disappointed" in Musk but that he has "no hard feelings."
During a chat with columnist Miranda Devine on the debut episode of "Pod Force One," Trump said: "I was really surprised that that happened. He went after a bill that's phenomenal. …He just — I think he feels very badly that he said that, actually."
He added, "That happens. Things like that happen. I don't blame him for anything. I was a little disappointed."
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