Donald Trump Lets News Outlets Know He's Got No Plans To Talk To Elon Musk: 'The Poor Guy Has Got A Problem'
Donald Trump spent part of Friday morning letting some news outlets know that he has no plans to talk to Elon Musk, even amid talk of a potential truce in their messy fallout.
On CNN, Dana Bash said that she got off the phone with Trump, and the president told her, 'I'm not even thinking about Elon. He's got a problem. The poor guy has got a problem.'
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'He says he won't be speaking to him for a while, but he wishes Elon Musk well,' Bash said, as Trump turned to the economy. She said that Trump didn't sound angry but 'I guess more resigned.'
ABC News' Jonathan Karl also spoke to Trump, and said the president told him that he was 'not particularly' interested in talking to him. Karl had asked him about reports that there would be a call with Musk some time on Friday.
'You mean the man who has lost his mind?' Trump said.
Trump also spoke to CBS News' Robert Costa, and insisted that he was 'totally' focused on policy matters.
Meanwhile, Fox News and other outlets reported that Trump plans to give away or sell the red Tesla that he purchased from Musk earlier this year. The two had appeared on the White House lawn in March for what essentially was a sales pitch for Musk's cars, amid reports of declining sales due in part to the negative image many potential buyers had of the billionaire in his chainsaw-like approach to the federal government. As the feud between Musk and Trump escalated on Thursday, White House reporter posted photos of the Tesla, parked near the West Wing.
Musk had given some indication later on Thursday that he would tone it down. After one X user suggested that Musk and Trump 'cool off and take a step back for a couple days,' Musk wrote, 'Good advice.' He also appeared to back off his threat to decommission Dragon, the program to supply NASA with spacecraft to resupply and send astronauts to the space station.
The White House has tried to shift attention to the economy, amid a rather static jobs report on Friday. But the soap opera, reality show- like feud has dominated cable news coverage, podcasts, primetime opinion programming and late night.
Musk reportedly poured $277 million into the 2024 election to help Trump and other Republicans, and there was expectation that he would invest heavily in next year's midterms. But as the Trump-Musk relationship fizzled this week, the billionaire, who is the world's richest man, threatened to work to defeat GOP candidates who voted for the signature piece of Trump's agenda, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Musk also talked of a third party and supported the idea of impeaching Trump.
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