Trump doesn’t want to speak to Musk – and sell his Tesla

In the publicly held dispute between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the US President is stubborn: Trump does not want to speak to the Tech billionaire and former allies, it said on Friday from the district of the White House in Washington. No conversation between the two men is planned during the day. Previously, the magazine “Politico” had reported that employees of the White House had scheduled a phone call to the Tesla boss for Friday to donate peace.

Trump told ABC that he was “not particularly interested” to talk to Musk after the dusting. Trump was also adamant and called his former consultant and allied musk “the man who lost his mind”. The Republican is also considering selling his electric car from Musk’s company Tesla, as it was said from the White House. According to a reporter from the AFP news agency, the red car was in the market value of around $ 80,000 (just under 70,000 euros) on Friday on the site of the White House.

Trump had bought the Tesla in front of the White House in mid -March as part of a kind of sales show. The reason was a boycott of Tesla after Musk had made a clear cut in the state apparatus on behalf of the President and the dismissal of numerous employees. At that time, Trump said Tesla was “a great company” and Musk “a patriot”. Tesla’s share price then recovered somewhat.

On Thursday, the two men had overwhelmed each other with more massive allegations (Read a protocol of the mud fight here). The dispute between Musk and Trump was disguised around the tax and budget law driven by the President. Musk, who, on behalf of Trump, was to take care of a radical reduction in government spending until recently, demands far stronger expenses. In the past few days, after his retreat from Washington, he has tightened the attacks to the law – and thus also to Trump’s government.

Trump was publicly addressed for the first time at the appointment with Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) in the White House. The 78-year-old indicated that musk was led by business interests. The busy entrepreneur is, among other things, the head of the electric car manufacturer Tesla. Trump said Musk had no problem with the law – until he found out that a reduction in billion dollar subsidies for electric vehicles were also more. Musk called that a lie.

The 53-year-old owner of the extensive online platform X suggested congress members of the Republican Party to join his side when voting on the law. “Trump still has three and a half years as President – and there will be more than 40 years,” he wrote as a “food for thought” for the parliamentarians on X, where he put a real cascade on posts within a few hours.

It may seem questionable that musk, as a matter of course, estimates a life expectancy of more than 90 years – but for congress members, his words are not simply an empty threat. With an estimated assets of more than $ 300 billion, Musk is by far the richest person in the world. Last year he put over $ 250 million in Trump’s election campaign, although he was previously considered a supporter of the Democrats. And with his monster, he could easily finance challengers who dispute the unpleasant MPs in the House of Representatives or Senate.

Musk also made an election campaign for Trump, among other things, in the important state of Pennsylvania. Trump now said that he had easily won in Pennsylvania without a musk-and seems to have also applied the tech billionaire against himself. “Without me, Trump would have lost the choice,” Musk said at X. “Such an ungratefulness.”

The tech billionaire also spread a contribution to X with a narrow “yes”, in which the author wrote that Trump had to be removed from the office. Trump, in turn, threatened financial consequences for Musk companies. “The easiest way to save billions and billions of dollars in our household is to terminate Elon’s government subsidies and contracts,” wrote the President at the online platform Truth Social. He had always been surprised that his predecessor Joe Biden didn’t do that. Many Tesla investors reacted panicked, the carmaker’s share lost more than 14 percent to the US trade.

In return, Musk announced that his space company SpaceX would start immediately taking the Dragon space capsule out of operation. Later he seemed to take this back with another post on X – but it was not clear to see how Ernst Musk means.

The Dragon room capsules are currently practically indispensable for the USA to bring astronauts into space. Boeing developed the spaceship Starliner, but the first flight with people on board the crew had to remain on board the ISS space station because there were technical problems. The astronauts stuck on the ISS for months before returning with a SpaceX capsule.

However, speculation has been speculated since the beginning of the alliance that the fraternization between Trump and Musk, which is often mockingly referred to as “Bromance”, was a pure alliance. If only because of its pronounced ego, the alliance could not last forever.