“Very disappointed in Elon” - Pres. Trump

WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Gray Media’s White House correspondent Jon Decker was part of the press pool Thursday, asking President Donald Trump about the billionaire Elon Musk’s posts about the Trump legislative agenda and the so-called “big beautiful bill.”

JON DECKER: “Thank you, Mr. President. The criticism that I’ve seen, and I’m sure you’ve seen regarding Elon Musk and your big beautiful bill, what’s your reaction to that? Do you think it in any way hurts age in the Senate, which is of course what is your seeking?”

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: “Well, look, you know, I’ve always liked Elon and it’s I was very surprised you saw the words he had for me, the words super.”

And he hasn’t said anything about me. That’s bad. I’d rather have him criticize me than the bill, because the bill is incredible. It’s the biggest cut in the history of our country. We’ve never cut. Its about 1.6 trillion in cuts. It’s the biggest tax cut tax. You would say, people, people’s taxes will go way down. But it’s the biggest tax cut in history.

It’s, we have we are doing things in that bill that are unbelievable. And, when you look at what we’re doing for small businesses, for people, for middle-income people, all of the things that we’re doing. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. And you know, Elon’s upset because we took the EV mandate and, you know, which was a lot of money for electric vehicles.

And, you know, they’re having a hard time. The electric vehicles. And they want us to pay billions of dollars in subsidy. And, you know, I, I l I knew this from the beginning. He knew it for a long time ago. That’s been that’s been, I would say, that hasn’t change, has been right from the beginning.

Mr., I think, Mr. Secretary, that hasn’t changed at all, right from the beginning. But I know that disturbed him. He wanted and rightfully you know, he recommended somebody from, that he, I guess, knew very well. I’m sure he respected him. But to run NASA. And I didn’t think it was appropriate. And he. I happen to be a Democrat, like, totally Democrat.

And I say, you know, look, we won. We get certain privileges. And one of the privileges when I have to appoint a Democrat, NASA is very important. We have great people. General Hayden is going to be picking somebody with our, will be we’ll be checking him out, saying. But, he wanted that person a certain person.

We said no, and I can understand why he’s upset. , he was here for a long time. You saw a man who was very happy when he stood behind the Oval desk. And, even with a black eye, I said, do you want a little makeup? We’ll get you the makeup. But he said, no, I don’t think so.

Which is interesting and very nice. He wants to be who he is. So you could make that statement too, I guess. Look, Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if. Well, anymore. I was surprised because you were here. Everybody in this room practically was here as we had a wonderful senator. If he said wonderful things about me, you couldn’t have nicer said the best thing.

He’s worn the hat. Trump was right about everything. And I am right about the great, big, beautiful bill we call it a great big, beautiful bill because that’s what it is. . 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 have to cut the if he meant it, 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 a gasoline, combustion. We want to have different. We want to have hybrids. We want to have all 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. And if you saw the statements he made about me, which I’m sure you can get very easily, it’s very fresh on tape. He said the most beautiful things about me, and he hasn’t said bad about me personally, but I’m sure that’ll be next.

But I’m. I’m very disappointed in Elon. I’ve helped Elon a lot."

Copyright 2025 Gray DC. All rights reserved.