#TrumpVsMusk WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is not interested in talking with his former ally Elon Musk, amid a bitter feud over the president's sweeping tax-cut bill, a White House official said on Friday, adding that no phone call between the two men is planned for the day.
A separate White House official had said earlier that Trump and Musk were going to talk to each other on Friday.
Trump, the world's most powerful leader, and Musk, the world's richest man, launched an extraordinary day of hostilities on Thursday - largely over social media - marking a stark end to a close alliance.
In pre-market trading on Friday, shares in Musk's Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab rose as much as 5% after the early news that the two men were scheduled to speak.
Tesla had closed down 14% on Thursday, losing about $150 billion in market value in the largest single-day decline in value in the electric vehicle maker's history.
Musk bankrolled a large part of Trump's presidential campaign and was then brought to the White House to head up a controversial effort to downsize the federal workforce and slash spending.
The falling-out had begun brewing days ago when Musk, who left his role as head of the Department of Government Efficiency a week ago, denounced Trump's tax-cut and spending bill. The feud is complicating efforts to pass the bill, which is the president's main demand of the Republican-controlled Congress.
Musk has denounced the package, which contains most of Trump's domestic priorities, as a "disgusting abomination" that would add too much to the nation's $36.2 trillion in debt.
