The feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump seems to have gone from full boiling to quiet over the weekend, but do not discard the possibility that the heat reappears. In a a Conversation with NBC NewsTrump said he has no interest in making a pleasantness with Musk now, but it has been shown that if the billionaire decides to change parties and back up democratic candidates, “he will have to pay consequences for it.”
Trump being Trump, he didn’t explain what could be those possible retaliation actions, just told NBC that they would be “very important consequences.” Of course, it’s not very difficult to imagine the levers that Trump could pull. He already has threatened To cancel the billions of dollars of government contracts that Musk’s companies currently have, and his close ally and former counselor, Steve Bannon, has encouraged Trump to explore Musk as an “illegal alien,” deports him, and catch control of their companies Under the Defense Production Act. So, he has some ideas to work.
Trump’s threat against Musk certainly feels like a line drawn in the sand, but the president otherwise didn’t really escalate the beef, as Musk threw the kitchen washbasin at him. In a series of now deleted posters, Musk claimed that Trump appears in Epstein’s files and retained information to protect himself and supported the idea of preventing the president. spent nearly $ 300 million trying to take office. Musk took those posters down, but was still critical of Trump.
Trump admonished the attacks in his conversation with NBC, calling the Epstein angle “old news” and that he has “nothing about” Epstein. “This is called” old news “, this was an old news that had been talked about for years,” he said.
Apart from that, Trump essentially decided to wash his hands of Musk – at least for the moment. When asked if his relationship with SpaceX’s Director General and Tesla ended, Trump Said nbc“I would suppose that, yes.” He also reiterated that he had no intention of talking to Musk directly and said, “I am too busy with other things” and “I have no intention of talking to him.”
That remains soft enough for a guy who is definitely able to be a bomb pitcher, but Trump may make sense that he’ll get out better after Musk flew away the handle. A YouGov’s inquiry found that among Republicans, 71% will take their side compared to only 6% who said they would throw their backs behind Musk. Even if you expand the survey sample to include Democrats and independents, Trump comes out with 28% support compared to just 8% for Musk (though in particular, 52% said “neither”, so the “Pox on both your houses” is strong).
Politico reported On Sunday, helpers representing both sides spoke, and there is something of a mutual break now to stop the bomb-throwing-though it was noticed that neither Musk nor Trump wanted to stop. Looks like they are locked up in a battle of braking at the moment, which is not exactly the skill of them. We’ll see who first breaks the break.
