Vice President JD Vance continued on Friday to President Donald Trump during his public enmity with Elon Musk, but notably does not directly criticize the Tesla billionaire.
Vance weighed for the first time in hours after the explosive Exchange began on Thursday, offering only a brief publication in X.
“President Trump has done more than anyone in my life to gain the confidence of the movement he leads. I am proud to be by his side,” Vance wrote.
On Friday morning, Vance directed his attention to the media while remaining silent about Musk’s accusations against the president.
“There are many lies that the corporate media talk about President Trump. One of the most obvious is that it is impulsive or of bad temper. Anyone who has seen it operate under pressure knows that it is ridiculous,” Vance wrote in X. Musk on Thursday had not made any statement about Trump “impulsive” or “with short time.”
President -elect Donald Trump, Trump’s election for the planned government efficiency department Elon Musk and the elected vice president JD Vance attend the university football game of the NCAA Entre Army and Navy in Landover, Maryland, December 14, 2024.
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Musk pressed that Vance was Trump’s 2024 formula partner. At the end of February, Musk had published in X that Vance was the “best vice president of all and our future president.”
The tensions between Trump and Musk, largely derived from Musk’s incessant criticism in the last days of Trump’s characteristic legislation, reached a high point on Thursday.
Trump in the Oval office offered his toughest words for his former close advisor, saying he was “disappointed” in Musk. Musk responded in real time, going to an X uproar that included suggesting that Trump would have lost the 2024 elections without him and even stating that Trump was “in” Epstein’s archives regarding research on Jeffrey Epstein, accused in 2019 with the sexual traffic of minors.
At one point, he agreed with a user who asked Trump to be accused and replaced by Vance. Vance has not responded to that either.
Trump responded his own conservative social networks, claiming that Musk had gone “crazy” and raised the possibility of ending the Musk government contracts.
The president told the correspondent of ABC News, Jon Karl, on Friday morning that Musk “lost his head” and that “he was not particularly” interested in talking to him at this time.
