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STORY: Tesla CEO and former adviser to Donald Trump, Elon Musk, hit back at the U.S. president on Thursday (June 5) after Trump said he was "disappointed" by the billionaire's public opposition to the sweeping tax-cut and spending bill.

Taking to his X social media platform as Trump was still speaking, Musk published a string of posts, denying Trump's statement that Musk "knew the inner workings" of the bill better than anyone in the Oval Office.

Shares of electric vehicle maker Tesla down 9% following the outbursts, to their lowest level since late February.

The back-and-forth made it clear tensions had reached a boiling point between the world's most powerful man and the world's richest man, after weeks of speculation that they were headed for a clash of egos.

Musk, whose other companies include rocket company and government contractor SpaceX and its satellite unit Starlink, spent nearly $300 million in the 2024 election in support of Trump and other Republican candidates.

Starting on Tuesday (June 3), the tech executive unleashed a series of blistering attacks against what Trump calls his "big, beautiful bill."

Musk called it a "disgusting abomination" that would deepen the federal deficit, amplifying a rift within the Republican Party that could threaten the bill's prospects in the Senate.

Nonpartisan analysts say the bill could add $2.4 trillion to $5 trillion to the nation's $36.2 trillion in debt.

Trump asserted that Musk's complaints were motivated by the proposed elimination of consumer tax credits for electric vehicles.

Trump suggested that Musk was upset because he missed working for Trump, who gave Musk a praise-filled sendoff last week after the billionaire oversaw the president's federal bureaucracy cost-cutting campaign.

Musk had signalled that he planned to step back from politics, saying last month he planned to substantially scale back his political spending.

Friction between him and Trump could hurt Republicans' chances of keeping control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections.

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VIDEO SHOWS: COMMENT FROM U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, ON HIS FORMER ADVISER, ELON MUSK / SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS FROM MUSK FOLLOWING TRUMP'S COMMENTS / FILE OF MUSK'S ELECTRIC VEHICLE COMPANY, TESLA

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SHOWS: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (JUNE 5, 2025) (U.S. NETWORK POOL - No use USA)

1. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

"But I'm very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here. Better than you people. He knew everything about it. He had no problem with it. All of a sudden he had a problem and he only developed the problem when he found out that we're going to cut EV mandate, because that's billions and billions of dollars and it really is unfair. We want to have cars of all types, electric, we want to have electric, but we want to have gasoline combustion and we want to have different, we want to have hybrid, we want to be able to sell everything. And when that was cut, and Congress wanted to cut it, he became a little bit different and I can understand that, but he knew every aspect of this bill. He knew it better than almost anybody and he never had a problem until right after he left."

INTERNET (JUNE 5, 2025) (SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE - Access all) (MUTE)

2. SOCIAL MEDIA POST BY FORMER TRUMP ADVISER AND TESLA CEO, ELON MUSK, READING (English): "False, this bill was never shown to me even once and was passed in the dead of night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it!"

3. MUSK'S SOCIAL MEDIA POST, READING (English): "Wise words" IN RESPONSE TO A JANUARY 2013 POST BY TRUMP, READING (English): "I cannot believe Republicans are extending the debt ceiling - I am a Republican and I am embarrassed."

4. MUSK'S SOCIAL MEDIA POST, READING (English): "I couldn't agree more!" IN RESPONSE TO A JULY 2012 POST BY TRUMP, READING (English): "No member of Congress should be eligible for re-election if our country's budget is not balanced---deficits not allowed!"

5. TWO POSTS FROM MUSK, READING (English): "Slim Beautiful Bill for the win." / "Keep the good, remove the bad."

6. POST FROM MUSK, READING (English): "Whatever. Keep the EV/solar incentive cuts in the bill, even though no oil & gas subsidies are touched (very unfair!!), but ditch the MOUNTAIN of DISGUSTING PORK in the bill. In the entire history of civilization, there has never been legislation that both big and beautiful. Everyone knows this! Either you get a big and ugly bill or a slim and beautiful bill. Slim and beautiful is the way."

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7. VARIOUS OF TESLA MODEL 3 ON ROADS

HAWTHORN, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FILE - APRIL 30, 2015) (TESLA - Access all)

8. TESLA CEO, ELON MUSK, SPEAKING AT TESLA ENERGY UNVEILING

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FILE) (REUTERS - Access all)

9. MUSK SPEAKING TO REUTERS REPORTERS

SHANGHAI, CHINA (FILE - JANUARY 7, 2019) (REUTERS - Access all)

10. TESLA VEHICLES ON DISPLAY

11. WOMAN LOOKING INTO TESLA MODEL S

12. STEERING WHEEL OF TESLA

13. INTERIOR OF TESLA MODEL S

14. EXTERIOR OF TESLA STORE