Donald Trump claims he could have made Elon Musk ‘drop to knees and beg’
- Donald Trump escalated his feud with billionaire Elon Musk after Musk said Trump was too old to be president
- Former US president said Musk would have ‘begged’ him for government subsidies, accused him of making ‘rocketships to nowhere’
Former US president Donald Trump escalated his feud with billionaire Elon Musk in a series of Truth Social posts.
“When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidised projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, ‘drop to your knees and beg,’ and he would have done it,” Trump claimed in a post, appearing to criticise at least two of Musk’s companies, Tesla and SpaceX.
“Now Elon should focus on getting himself out of the Twitter mess because he could owe $44 billion for something that’s perhaps worthless. Also, lots of competition for electric cars!” Trump wrote.
Trump did lend Musk a hand while he was in office. For instance, in 2020, Musk received Trump’s backing to defy the local authorities and reopen his California Tesla factory amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
