Once a key member of the intimate circle of President Donald Trump, an important campaign donor and a presence that steals the scene at the cabinet meetings, Elon Musk’s relationship with the president has deteriorated in a bitter public dispute since he left the White House last week.
Musk started from his role from the highly visible White House leading the government’s efficiency department after reaching its 130 -day limit as a special government employee. The War of Words began shortly after Musk left the White House and expressed his opposition to the act of a great Big Big Beutify bill, which approved the camera last month for a single vote and is now in the Senate.
Here is a summary of the relationship between Trump and Musk, and how it became.
The president -elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk observe the launch of the sixth test flight of the Spacex Starship rocket in Brownsville, Texas, November 19, 2024.
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July 13, 2024
Following Trump’s murder attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, Musk publishes a video of a bloody Trump that pumps his fist in the air in X and writes: “I fully support President Trump and wait for his rapid recovery.”
August 12, 2024
Musk organizes an interview with Trump in X. The event is plagued by technical difficulties, but sees a reported audience of 1.3 million.
Musk praises Trump for how he handled the murder attempt and criticized Trump’s opponent, the then Vice President Kamala Harris, but retreces some of Trump’s statements about climate change.
October 5, 2024
Tesla and the CEO of Spacex, Elon Musk, take the stage when joining the former presidential presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign demonstration in Butler, Pennsylvania, on October 5, 2024.
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Musk appears with Trump in a second rally in Butler, the site of the previous murder attempt.
Musk urges people to register to vote and made sinister warnings about the consequences of the next elections.
“If they don’t, this will be the last choice. That is my prediction,” says Musk, echoing feelings similar to Trump’s.
Later, the federal presentations of the Electoral Commission show that Musk spent more than $ 270 million of their own money through two Super Pac that promoted Trump’s candidacy and other Republicans in the 2024 elections.
November 5, 2024
Musk spends the night of the elections at the Trump Mar-A-Lago Club in Florida, and stays there during the next few days, with a support on key personnel decisions.
Musk is also present for at least two telephone calls that Trump had as elected president, including a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
November 12, 2024
A week after the elections, Trump announces that Musk, and the former presidential candidate of the Republican Party Vivek Ramasswamy, would lead a “recently created government efficiency department.
“Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my administration to dismantle the governmental bureaucracy, cut the excess regulations, reduce waste and restructuring expenses to federal agencies,” Trump said in a statement.
Ramasswamy would later pass the role that was running for the governor of Ohio.
Later that month, Trump joined Musk in Texas for a spacex’s starship rock launch.
Tesla and the CEO of Spacex, Elon Musk, encourages when President Donald Trump speaks after having sworn as the 47th president in the roundabout of the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025.
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January 20, 2025
Musk, and other technology CEO, take seats in the ring at the inauguration of Trump.
President Donald Trump talks to Elon Musk’s son at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2025.
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February 11, 2025
In an appearance in the Oval office, Musk defends his aggressive cost reduction efforts throughout the federal government, which at that time has caused a series of federal demands.
Musk’s son, “X”, who cry around the desk resolved when his father and the president go to journalists, face.
February 26, 2025
Musk occupies the center of the stage at the first meeting of the Trump cabinet of his second term. At that time, Doge’s actions were subject to controversy, from efforts to fire federal employees to an email that requires federal workers to list their weekly achievements.
When a reporter asks Musk if any cabinet member is not happy with the email ultimatum, Trump interrupts.
Elon Musk and Tulsi Gabbard, National Intelligence Director listening while President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, on April 30, 2025 in Washington.
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“Is anyone discontent with Elon?” Trump told the group, many of whom began to laugh. “If it is, we will throw it from here. Is anyone unhappy? They respect Elon a lot,” he said when the cabinet members began to applaud.
At the meeting, Musk, with a black hat “Make America Great Again”, despite not being an official member of the cabinet, he is the first to speak.
March 6, 2025
In another meeting a few weeks later, Trump tells the members of the cabinet that they are in charge of the agencies and departments that supervise, not an musk.
Musk Subsequent publications in X that the meeting was “very productive.”
The meeting occurred when some secretaries of the cabinet had expressed in private the frustration for Musk’s efforts to reduce the size and scope of their agencies.
Later, Trump tells journalists that he warned the members of the cabinet that if they do not make the necessary cuts to reduce the “swelling” in the federal government, the musk and doge would take care of them.
March 11, 2025
President Donald Trump and the main advisor of the White House, the CEO of Tesla and the CEO of Spacex, Elon Musk, deliver comments with a Tesla Model S at the White House South Law, on March 11, 2025, in Washington, DC
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In the midst of a final sliding result in the Musk Tesla Automobile Company and a series of vandalism and other attacks against cars, Trump organizes a teslas showcase on the White House grass.
“I just want people to know that they cannot be penalized for being a patriot,” Trump tells journalists during a photograph with musk and their vehicles. “People should go crazy and love the product.”
The president, who goes up to the front seat of a Tesla for photos, tells journalists that he bought one of the vehicles.
May 27, 2025
In An interview with CBS NewsMusk first transmits his complaints with the Trump characteristic bill: “I was disappointed to see the massive bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not only decreases and undermines the work that Doge’s team is doing,” says Musk.
May 29, 2025
Musk announces in X that is leaving the White House. As “special government employee”, it is limited to a 130 -day appointment.
At that time, White House officials insist that Musk is going in good terms and would continue to serve as an unofficial advisor to the president.
Musk Publications in x Thanks to Trump, saying that his Dogs team will continue to work throughout the government.
“As my scheduled time as a special government employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President @realdonaldTrump for the opportunity to reduce wastewater,” Musk publishes. He said that the Dux Mission “will only be strengthened over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.”
May 31, 2025
The CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, and President Donald Trump laugh while listening to a journalists’ question at the Oval Office of the White House, on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC
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During brief comments from the Oval office in a farewell appearance, Musk tells journalists that he believes that the Government’s efficiency department “will only be strengthened over time.”
At that time, Musk’s team said that Dege has reduced $ 175 billion so far through sales of assets, contracts and leases canceled and reductions of the workforce, a figure that is considerably below the $ 1 billion objective.
Musk, wearing a bruise that said he received after asking his 5 -year -old son to hit him on his face, said he hopes to be back in the Oval office.
“I hope to continue being a friend and advisor to the president,” he said.
June 3, 2025
Musk issues a burst of publications in X Attacking the act of a great Big Beauty bill, since he expects a vote in the Senate. “I’m sorry, but I can’t stand it. This draft expense bill of the massive congress, outrageous and full of pork is an unpleasant abomination,” writes Musk. “It’s a shame for those who voted for him: you know you did wrong. You know it.”
Musk states that the bill “would greatly increase” the federal budget deficit.
June 4, 2025
Musk continues his attacks against Trump’s bill with a series of publications on social networks, instructing followers to call members of Congress to “kill the bill.”
June 5, 2025
The War of Words between Elon Musk and Trump enters a complete dispute, with Musk hitting Trump for “ingratitude” during the 2024 elections, agreeing with a call to his political trial, demolishing the characteristic legislation of the president and even stating that Trump is in Epstein’s archives, referring to the accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein Epstein,
Trump, speaking on television from the Oval office, responds to Musk’s alluvion, saying that he is “disappointed” in Musk.
Later, in a publication on social networks, Trump states: “Elon was” using thin “, I asked him to leave, I took the mandate of EV that forced everyone to buy electric cars that nobody else wanted (who knew for months what he was going to do!), And he went crazy!”
Trump continues to say that the “easier way to save money” would be “to finish Elon’s subsidies and government contracts.”
