Trump, Elon Musk and Tesla
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President Donald Trump walked back his earlier attacks on Elon Musk and his companies. Trump said Musk's businesses would continue to enjoy federal subsidies. But Musk said the subsidies Trump was talking about "simply do not exist."
The timing was no coincidence. On July 3, Congress passed President Donald Trump’s signature legislation, the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” a sweeping package that includes massive spending cuts, the end of clean energy subsidies, and controversial changes to social safety net programs. Trump signed the bill into law on July 4.
President Donald Trump refrained from criticizing Elon Musk in a Fox News interview on Sunday, calling him "wonderful" despite Musk's claims that Trump's Senate bill would cause "immense strategic harm" to America.
Elon Musk criticized Trump's revised spending bill, especially its impact on clean energy production, in multiple X posts over the weekend.
Elon Musk's former friend, Philip Low, a neuroscientist, said in an interview with Politico that Musk would do "everything" to damage Donald Trump.
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Elon Musk Creates His Own Political Party to Take Down Trump — and Gives It a MAGA-Friendly Name
Elon Musk is starting his own political party, called the America Party, in response to Congress passing Trump's domestic policy bill. Musk, a former adviser to Trump, left his position in the administration after disagreeing with the president on the 'Big,
"When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy," Musk said in the announcement.
Tech billionaires like Musk used to serve as inspiration for cinema’s greatest heroes. Not anymore. I recently saw James Gunn’s new Superman movie, and as I sat there in the dark theater, I couldn’t help but think that Nicholas Hoult based his Lex Luthor on Elon Musk.