(Washington) After having torn himself publicly with Elon Musk, Donald Trump puts a small music on the entrepreneur’s psychological instability on Friday and the two former allies do not seem to be rabibocher.
The rupture between the president of the first world power and the richest man on the planet, which has captivated the world in the manner of a voyeuristic reality show, could carry heavy political and economic consequences.
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Donald Trump did not seize the hand outstretched by Tesla and SpaceX, who wanted a telephone exchange on Friday.
And Donald Trump now makes it known, always by an anonymous source, which he “thinks” to sell his red Tesla.
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The American president, Donald Trump, is addressed to the media next to the boss of Tesla, Elon Musk, at the White House in Washington, on March 11, 2025.
However, he spoke with several American television journalists.
In CBS, he assured that he was “totally concentrated” on his presidential action, “nothing else”.
A CNN journalist, who also spoke to the 78 -year -old billionaire, said he said: “This poor man has a problem”.
And a presenter from Fox News has passed on other words from Donald Trump: “Elon has completely lost the pedals”.
On Thursday, the head of state had already called the “crazy” multimillionaire in a message on his Truth Social platform.
He also said, via a high anonymous official, that he could sell a red Tesla bought in March to show his support for the brand of his adviser at the time.
At the end of the day Friday, the Republican seemed more peaceful, saying that he “did not think of Elon Musk” and that he “just wished him good luck”.
But he clearly seeks to show himself in a position of strength, after the incredible cleaning scene played with raging messages on social networks.
“Many money”
Staying silent for a long time in the face of Elon Musk’s incessant attacks against his “great and beautiful law”, a text that provides enormous tax reductions, heavy expenses for defense and cups in social benefits, Donald Trump ended up replying Vernement on Thursday.
He threatened on Truth Social “to cancel the government’s subsidies and contracts” of the boss of Tesla and SpaceX.
“We’re going to look at all of this, it’s a lot of money, subsidies,” he slipped on Friday.
Elon Musk, for his part, accused of “ingratitude” the one he very generously funded the campaign, sharing on his social network X a message calling for it.
The spectacular fall in the Tesla action Thursday at Wall Street began the still pharaonic fortune of its boss.
Photo Brandon Bell, provided by Reuters archives
Elon Musk and Donald Trump when viewing the launch of the sixth test flight of a SpaceX vessel, Brownsville, Texas, November 19, 2024
The future of the car manufacturer depends a lot on the regulation decisions that the government will make, underlines for AFP Dan Ives, analyst at Wedbush, who considers that this “college quarrel” will end up in “truce”, “without real winner or loser”.
Elon Musk “cannot afford to have an enemy” at the White House, he underlines.
The native of South Africa pilot, via SpaceX, huge contracts of the federal government, which makes him vulnerable. But that also gives him real power, because the United States has entrusted him with sensitive skills.
Donald Trump benefits from a political base incommented with that of his unpopular ancient ally and executive power. He also recently showed that he did not hesitate to launch the Ministry of Justice against his opponents.
For the Republican Party, firmly tidy behind the president, the potential loss of the biggest donor in American political history is however an uncomfortable perspective, before the mid-term parliamentary elections in November 2026.
“I hope they will be reconciled. I believe in redemption, “said the republican boss of the House of Representatives, the very religious Mike Johnson.
