#TrumpVsMusk #TradingMistakes101 Trump says relationship with Musk is over
US President Donald Trump has said his relationship with Elon Musk is over.
"I would assume so, yeah," Trump told NBC News on Saturday, when asked if he thought the pair's close relationship had ended. He replied "No" when asked if he wished to mend the damaged ties.
The comments were Trump's latest since the epic fallout between him and Musk unravelled on social media.
It came after the tech billionaire - who donated millions to Trump's election campaign and became a White House aide - publicly criticised the president's tax and spending bill, a key domestic policy.
A majority of Republicans have fallen in line behind the president. Vice-President JD Vance said that Musk had "gone so nuclear" and may never be welcomed back into the fold.
Vance told podcaster Theo Von that it was a "big mistake" for the Tesla and SpaceX CEO to attack the president.
For weeks, Musk had been criticising Trump's signature legislation - dubbed the "Big Beautiful Bill" - as it made its way through Congress.
He said that, if passed, the bill would add trillions of dollars to the national deficit and "undermine" the work he did as the head of Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, and its efforts to cut government spending.
Shortly after leaving Doge after 129 days in the job, Musk posted on his social media site X that the bill was a "disgusting abomination" - but did not criticise Trump directly.
On Thursday, however, Trump told reporters he was "disappointed" with Musk's behaviour.
Musk responded with a flurry of posts on X, saying that Trump would have lost the election without him and accusing Trump of being implicated in files of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in jail awaiting sex trafficking charges.
He has since deleted the post and Epstein's lawyer has come out denying the accusations.
