Musk reignites Trump feud calling bill ‘utterly insane and destructive’

On Saturday, Elon Musk criticised Trump’s bill, calling it “utterly insane and destructive” and stating that it “will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country”.

“It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future,” the tech billionaire who heads Tesla and SpaceX wrote on X, the social media platform he owns.

In early June, Musk, a huge campaign donor to Trump and key aide, called the bill a “disgusting abomination”, leading to a public fallout with the Republican president.

The two had appeared to cool tensions, with Trump telling reporters that he wished Musk well while the latter wrote on X that he had gone “too far”. It came as Musk deleted one of the explosive allegations he had made on X during their fallout, linking the president with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.