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Saudi Gazette
3 days ago
- Automotive
- Saudi Gazette
Trump and Musk feud erupts into political warfare as former allies turn rivals
WASHINGTON — A bitter political feud between US President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk exploded into full public view this week, ending an unusual alliance that once saw Musk holding significant influence in the Trump administration. Speaking from the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump expressed sharp disappointment in Musk's recent criticisms of his economic policies. He dismissed the idea that Musk's support had been decisive in last year's election, and accused him of turning against the administration because of Republican efforts to end electric vehicle tax credits — a move that could impact Tesla directly. 'Elon and I had a great relationship,' Trump said, notably using the past tense. 'I'm very disappointed in him.' Musk, for his part, responded on his platform X with a curt 'Whatever,' accusing Trump of ingratitude. He insisted his criticism stemmed from concern over America's mounting national debt, not any loss of subsidies. 'Democrats would have won even without me,' he falling-out marks the end of a high-profile and controversial political had been appointed as head of the Trump-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), tasked with slashing federal agencies and reducing bureaucracy—an appointment that made headlines around the department eliminated entire federal bodies and laid off thousands, placing Musk at the heart of Trump's budget reform tension between the two personalities had been long predicted, they maintained a united front through earlier regularly appeared at Trump's side — whether in the Oval Office, Cabinet meetings, or aboard Air Force partnership formally ended last week when Musk's 130-day stint as a "special government employee" received a symbolic golden key to the White House during his send-off. But any potential return is now off the frustration reportedly intensified after Musk publicly criticized the administration's tax-and-spending retaliation, Trump hinted at cancelling government contracts and subsidies involving Musk-linked companies.'The easiest way to save billions is to terminate Elon's governmental subsidies and contracts,' Trump posted on his own social media stock dipped on Thursday following the escalating Republicans divided and Musk potentially funding primary challengers to Trump-aligned candidates, the feud threatens to split conservative ranks ahead of next year's influence — financial and rhetorical — could sway tight races or disrupt GOP meanwhile, are watching from the sidelines. While some remain wary of Musk given his prior ties to Trump, others welcome the infighting.'Anything that pushes Musk closer to Democrats weakens the Republicans,' said strategist Liam Musk's tenure in government is over, his influence endures. He ended his latest post with a final jab:'Trump has 3.5 years left as president,' Musk wrote on X. 'But I'll be around for 40-plus years.'
India Today
22-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
You're a terrible reporter: Trump blasts NBC over Qatar plane question
US President Donald Trump lashed out at an NBC reporter during a press conference at the White House on Wednesday, after being questioned about the Pentagon's acceptance of a Boeing 747 from Qatar, which is set to be converted into a temporary Air Force heated exchange took place during Trump's meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, shortly after Trump had shown him a video highlighting violence against white farmers in South the NBC reporter, believed to be Peter Alexander, asked about the Qatari jet, Trump erupted. 'What are you talking about? You know, you ought to get out of here,' Trump said. 'What does this have to do with the Qatari jet? They're giving the United States Air Force a jet. OK? And it's a great thing. We're talking about a lot of other things. It's NBC trying to get off the subject of what you just saw,' he continued. HOLY SHLIT: A reporter RUDELY interrupted President Trump's meeting on the genoc*de of white South Africans... Trump happened directly after Trump played the videos of the white genoc*de over in S. "The Pentagon announced it would be accepting a Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 21, 2025He then sharply criticized the reporter's intelligence and NBC's corporate leadership. 'You are a real you know, you're a terrible reporter. No. 1, you don't have what it takes to be a reporter. You're not smart back to your studio at NBC because Brian Roberts and the people that run that place they ought to be investigated. And you are a disgrace. No more questions from you.'Trump later reiterated on Truth Social that the USD 400 million Boeing 747 was 'NOT TO ME,' but a gift to the US Air Force. 'It is a gift from a nation, Qatar It will be used by our Government as a temporary Air Force One, until such time as our new Boeings arrive.'The Pentagon has confirmed the jet's acceptance, despite concerns over legality, ethics, and foreign spokesperson Sean Parnell said the Department of Defense 'will work to ensure proper security measures' are in place to prepare the aircraft for presidential use. 'The plane was accepted by all federal rules and regulations,' he InTrending Reel
Economic Times
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Economic Times
Peace breakthrough unlikely as Putin declines to meet Zelenskyy in Turkey
Live Events (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel Russia's Vladimir Putin spurned a challenge to meet face-to-face with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Turkey on Thursday, instead sending a second-tier delegation to planned peace talks, while Ukraine's president said his defence minister would head up Kyiv's will be the first direct talks between the sides since March 2022, but hopes of a major breakthrough were further dented by U.S. President Donald Trump who said there would be no movement without a meeting between himself and said Putin's decision not to attend but to send what he called a "decorative" line-up showed the Russian leader was not serious about ending the war. Russia accused Ukraine of trying "to put on a show" around the was not clear when the talks would actually begin."We can't be running around the world looking for Putin," Zelenskyy said after meeting Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara."I feel disrespect from Russia. No meeting time, no agenda, no high-level delegation - this is personal disrespect. To Erdogan, to Trump," Zelenskyy told said he himself would also not now go to Istanbul and that his team's mandate was to discuss a backs an immediate, unconditional 30-day ceasefire but Putin has said he first wants to start talks at which the details of such a truce could be discussed. More than three years after its full-scale invasion, Russia has the advantage on the battlefield and says Ukraine could use a pause in the war to call up extra troops and acquire more Western Trump and Putin have said for months they are keen to meet each other, but no date has been set. Trump, after piling heavy pressure on Ukraine and clashing with Zelenskyy in the Oval Office in February, has lately expressed growing impatience that Putin may be "tapping me along"."Nothing's going to happen until Putin and I get together," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force diplomatic disarray was symptomatic of the deep hostility between the warring sides and the unpredictability injected by Trump, whose interventions since returning to the White House in January have often provoked dismay from Ukraine and its European Zelenskyy waited in vain for Putin in Ankara, the Russian negotiating team sat in Istanbul with no one to talk to on the Ukrainian side. Some 200 reporters milled around near the Dolmabahce Palace on the Bosphorus that the Russians had specified as the talks enemies have been wrestling for months over the logistics of ceasefires and peace talks while trying to show Trump they are serious about trying to end what he calls "this stupid war".Hundreds of thousands have been killed and wounded on both sides in the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War Two. Washington has threatened repeatedly to abandon its mediation efforts unless there is clear said on Thursday he would go to the talks in Turkey on Friday if it was "appropriate"."I just hope Russia and Ukraine are able to do something. It has to stop," he if Putin would join talks at some future point, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "What kind of participation will be required further, at what level, it is too early to say now."Russia said on Thursday its forces had captured two more settlements in Ukraine's Donetsk region. A spokeswoman for Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pointedly reminded reporters of his comment last year that Ukraine was "getting smaller" in the absence of an agreement to stop they start, the talks will have to address a chasm between the two sides over a host of Russian delegation is headed by presidential adviser Vladimir Medinsky, a former culture minister who has overseen the rewriting of history textbooks to reflect Moscow's narrative on the war. It includes a deputy defence minister, a deputy foreign minister and the head of military members of the team, including its leader, were also involved in the last direct peace talks in Istanbul in March 2022 - and Medinsky confirmed on Thursday that Russia saw the new talks as a resumption of those interrupted three years said the task was to achieve a long-lasting peace that included removing the "root causes" of the conflict - a phrase Zelenskyy said actually meant prolonging terms under discussion in 2022, when Ukraine was still reeling from Russia's initial invasion, would be deeply disadvantageous to Kyiv. They included a demand by Moscow for deep cuts to the size of Ukraine's Russian forces now in control of close to a fifth of Ukraine, Putin has held fast to his longstanding demands for Kyiv to cede territory, abandon its NATO membership ambitions and become a neutral rejects these terms as tantamount to capitulation, and is seeking guarantees of its future security from world powers, especially the United the level of tension between Russia and the U.S.-led alliance, Estonia said Moscow briefly sent a fighter jet into NATO airspace over the Baltic Sea during an attempt by the Estonian navy to stop a Russian-bound oil tanker thought to be part of a "shadow fleet" defying Western sanctions on Moscow.
Time of India
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Peace breakthrough unlikely as Putin declines to meet Zelenskyy in Turkey
Live Events (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel Russia's Vladimir Putin spurned a challenge to meet face-to-face with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Turkey on Thursday, instead sending a second-tier delegation to planned peace talks, while Ukraine's president said his defence minister would head up Kyiv's will be the first direct talks between the sides since March 2022, but hopes of a major breakthrough were further dented by U.S. President Donald Trump who said there would be no movement without a meeting between himself and said Putin's decision not to attend but to send what he called a "decorative" line-up showed the Russian leader was not serious about ending the war. Russia accused Ukraine of trying "to put on a show" around the was not clear when the talks would actually begin."We can't be running around the world looking for Putin," Zelenskyy said after meeting Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara."I feel disrespect from Russia. No meeting time, no agenda, no high-level delegation - this is personal disrespect. To Erdogan, to Trump," Zelenskyy told said he himself would also not now go to Istanbul and that his team's mandate was to discuss a backs an immediate, unconditional 30-day ceasefire but Putin has said he first wants to start talks at which the details of such a truce could be discussed. More than three years after its full-scale invasion, Russia has the advantage on the battlefield and says Ukraine could use a pause in the war to call up extra troops and acquire more Western Trump and Putin have said for months they are keen to meet each other, but no date has been set. Trump, after piling heavy pressure on Ukraine and clashing with Zelenskyy in the Oval Office in February, has lately expressed growing impatience that Putin may be "tapping me along"."Nothing's going to happen until Putin and I get together," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force diplomatic disarray was symptomatic of the deep hostility between the warring sides and the unpredictability injected by Trump, whose interventions since returning to the White House in January have often provoked dismay from Ukraine and its European Zelenskyy waited in vain for Putin in Ankara, the Russian negotiating team sat in Istanbul with no one to talk to on the Ukrainian side. Some 200 reporters milled around near the Dolmabahce Palace on the Bosphorus that the Russians had specified as the talks enemies have been wrestling for months over the logistics of ceasefires and peace talks while trying to show Trump they are serious about trying to end what he calls "this stupid war".Hundreds of thousands have been killed and wounded on both sides in the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War Two. Washington has threatened repeatedly to abandon its mediation efforts unless there is clear said on Thursday he would go to the talks in Turkey on Friday if it was "appropriate"."I just hope Russia and Ukraine are able to do something. It has to stop," he if Putin would join talks at some future point, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "What kind of participation will be required further, at what level, it is too early to say now."Russia said on Thursday its forces had captured two more settlements in Ukraine's Donetsk region. A spokeswoman for Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pointedly reminded reporters of his comment last year that Ukraine was "getting smaller" in the absence of an agreement to stop they start, the talks will have to address a chasm between the two sides over a host of Russian delegation is headed by presidential adviser Vladimir Medinsky, a former culture minister who has overseen the rewriting of history textbooks to reflect Moscow's narrative on the war. It includes a deputy defence minister, a deputy foreign minister and the head of military members of the team, including its leader, were also involved in the last direct peace talks in Istanbul in March 2022 - and Medinsky confirmed on Thursday that Russia saw the new talks as a resumption of those interrupted three years said the task was to achieve a long-lasting peace that included removing the "root causes" of the conflict - a phrase Zelenskyy said actually meant prolonging terms under discussion in 2022, when Ukraine was still reeling from Russia's initial invasion, would be deeply disadvantageous to Kyiv. They included a demand by Moscow for deep cuts to the size of Ukraine's Russian forces now in control of close to a fifth of Ukraine, Putin has held fast to his longstanding demands for Kyiv to cede territory, abandon its NATO membership ambitions and become a neutral rejects these terms as tantamount to capitulation, and is seeking guarantees of its future security from world powers, especially the United the level of tension between Russia and the U.S.-led alliance, Estonia said Moscow briefly sent a fighter jet into NATO airspace over the Baltic Sea during an attempt by the Estonian navy to stop a Russian-bound oil tanker thought to be part of a "shadow fleet" defying Western sanctions on Moscow.
