President of the United States of America, Trump threatens to deport Elon Musk, who has been his best friend recently.
President Trump threatens to deport Elon Musk as their relationship takes another turn. The US president threatens to strip federal funds from his companies after criticizing the president’s spending bill.
Elon Musk was one of the key individuals who fought for Trump‘s comeback into the White House; he was also known to be the biggest political donor in Trump’s 2024 election campaigns. The billionaire became Trump’s ally during the early stages of the president’s return to power and was appointed as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The owner of SpaceX, Tesla, and other popular companies threatened to form a new political party to challenge all the Republican lawmakers who vote for Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”
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Trump, 78, reacted vengefully on Tuesday. “We’ll have to take a look,” he told reporters when asked if he would consider deporting Musk, who has held US citizenship since 2002.
In reply to a post on his X social network featuring Trump’s deportation comments, Musk replied on Tuesday: “So tempting to escalate this. So, so tempting. But I will refrain for now.”
Trump also hinted that he would target the massive contracts and subsidies that the US government gives Musk’s Space X rocket and Starlink satellite broadband companies.
“Elon may need to be placed under DOGE. Are you familiar with DOGE? Trump declared, “DOGE is the monster that may have to return and devour Elon.”
Following Trump’s threat, Tesla’s stock fell more than 6% in the early hours of Tuesday.
When Trump stated that he thought Musk was disparaging his so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” because he was irritated that it had abandoned policies to help the electric vehicle (EV) sector, he doubled down.
“He’s losing his EV mandate. He’s very upset about things, but you know, he could lose a lot more than that, I can tell you right now. Elon can lose a lot more than that.”
Trump Threatens to Deport Elon Musk
Trump made similar comments on his Truth Social network late Monday, saying that “without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa.” (Trump Threatens to Deport Elon Musk)
“No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE,” the president said. “Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!”
The tycoon and the president shared a brief but intense bromance after Trump’s return to power in January.
Wearing MAGA baseball hats, Musk was an almost constant presence at Trump’s side. Trump returned the favor by promoting Tesla electric vehicles when protesters targeted them for Musk’s cost-cutting drive at DOGE.
But they had a huge public blow-up in May as Musk criticized the spending bill and then left the government.
The billionaire’s criticisms center on claims that the bill would increase the US deficit. He also accuses Republicans of abandoning efforts to place the United States at the front of the EV and clean energy revolution.
“All I’m asking is that we don’t bankrupt America,” he said on social media Tuesday, accusing Republicans of supporting “debt slavery.”
More worrying perhaps for Trump is the way that Musk is seeking to target vulnerable Republican lawmakers ahead of the 2026 US midterm elections.
Musk has said he will set up his own political movement called the “America Party” if Trump’s bill passes.
And he has pledged to fund challengers against lawmakers who campaigned on reduced federal spending only to vote for the bill.
“VOX POPULI VOX DEI 80% voted for a new party,” he said after launching a poll on the idea on X.
