Trump 'not even thinking about Elon' and won't speak to him 'for a while'

US President Donald Trump told CNN connected Friday he is "not moreover reasoning about" billionaire Elon Musk and won't beryllium speaking to him successful nan adjacent future.

"I'm not moreover reasoning astir Elon. He's sewage a problem. The mediocre guy's sewage a problem," Trump said successful a little telephone call.

Trump said connected Thursday he was "very disappointed" pinch nan tech billionaire for criticising his monolithic taxation and spending cuts package while Musk fired backmost that "Trump would person mislaid nan election" without him.

In his telephone pinch CNN connected Friday morning, Trump talked astir nan forthcoming jobs report, which has since been released, ostentation and state prices.

Asked if he had a telephone pinch Musk, nan president responded: "No. I won't beryllium speaking to him for a while I guess, but I wish him well."

As nan 2 powerful onetime friends duked it retired online connected Thursday, their shared friends sought to softly agent a truce, CNN antecedently reported.

Musk, for his part, appeared unfastened to a thaw.

"You're not wrong," Musk responded to a station from billionaire investor Bill Ackman, who wrote connected X: "I support @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk and they should make bid for nan use of our awesome country. We are overmuch stronger together than apart."

In a motion of their break, however, Trump is readying to get free of nan Tesla he purchased successful March, a elder White House charismatic told CNN. The reddish conveyance whitethorn beryllium sold aliases perchance fixed away, different charismatic said.

Trump had antecedently allowed immoderate of his younger staffers to usage nan car. As of Friday morning, it was visibly parked successful nan West Executive Driveway.

Back successful March, Trump transformed nan South Lawn into what resembled a Tesla showroom, an evident motion toward his then-adviser. Later that day, Trump publically announced he was purchasing a Tesla and had moreover bought a Cybertruck for his granddaughter.

"I deliberation (Musk has) been treated very unfairly by a very mini group of people, and I conscionable want group to cognize that he can't beryllium penalised for being a patriot," Trump said astatine nan time.

As nan 2 billionaires' conflict complete Trump's sweeping taxation and home argumentation measure turned progressively individual connected Thursday, respective group acquainted pinch what was happening down nan scenes — who were desperately making telephone calls to 1 different and trying to tamp down nan escalating feud — described Musk's invocation of nan Jeffrey Epstein files arsenic nan tipping point.

"Time to driblet nan really large bomb: @realDonaldTrump is successful nan Epstein files. That is nan existent logic they person not been made public. Have a bully day, DJT!" Musk wrote, stunning those pinch adjacent relationships to Trump and Musk.

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt called Musk's claims an "unfortunate episode" successful a connection to CNN connected Thursday night.

Musk has not elaborate really he would person gained entree to unreleased files related to nan disgraced financier and has not provided immoderate grounds of wherever his accusation was coming from.

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