Elon Musk's ex-friend Phillip Low predicts he is ‘going to do everything to damage' Donald Trump after feud
Philip Low, a neuroscientist who founded NeuroVigil and had a falling out with Musk, argued that Trump's former right-hand man doesn't move on from big fights with people.
'I've had my share of blowouts with Elon over the years,' Low told Politico. 'Knowing Elon the way I know him, I do think he's going to do everything to damage the president.'
Earlier this month, Musk, 54, went ballistic on Trump after his frustrations with the deficit impact of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act seemingly reached a breaking point.
During his fiery rhetorical haymakers against Trump, the former Department of Government Efficiency boss argued that without his help, 'Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.'
He blasted Trump's marquee megabill as 'pork-filled' and a 'disgusting abomination,' while also calling for the creation of a new political party. Musk also dropped a 'big bomb,' alleging that the president was in the Jeffrey Epstein files, in a since-deleted post.
'I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week,' Musk later posted on X.
Trump has seemingly let bygones be bygones as well, calling his onetime billionaire buddy a 'wonderful guy' who's 'gonna do well always.'
'He's a smart guy, and he actually went and campaigned with me and this and that, but he got a little bit upset and that wasn't appropriate,' Trump told Fox News' 'Sunday Morning Futures' in a pre-taped interview late last week.
But Low surmised that the public moves by the two moguls to bury the hatchet has been 'purely cosmetic.'
'He has been humiliated,' he contended. '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 neuroscientist mused that Trump 'tends to make up with his former sparring partners like [Steve] Bannon a bit more easily than Elon does' — but suggested that's not his experience with Musk.
The SpaceX and Tesla mogul helped finance NeuroVigil, which developed iBrain, a device that is intended to give patients a means of getting a non-invasive electroencephalogram to monitor their brain activity. He also joined its advisory board.
By 2021, Musk sought to get off NeuroVigil's advisory board, so Low fired him to ensure the billionaire couldn't exercise his stock options, fearing that could damage the company. At that point, Musk had formed his own neurotechnology company, Neuralink.
Low went on a public diatribe against Musk earlier this year, penning a blistering Facebook post disparaging his former friend.
Over the weekend, Musk re-upped his criticism of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act as the Senate GOP worked on advancing the legislative bundle.
'Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame!' Musk raged on X Monday.
'And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth.'
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