“Elon and I We had a great relationship. I don’t think we’ll have more. ” This is what he said Donald Trump to the reporters in the oval study, tracing a clear line to himself and the entrepreneur Elon Musk. “I always liked Elon. You saw the words he spent for me, he never said anything bad. But I would prefer that he criticized me rather than the Budget lawbecause that law is incredible: it is the largest tax cut In the history of our country, it does a lot for businesses. “
The answer of Elon Musk It was not long in coming. On X (ex Twitter)he wrote that he was decisive for Trump’s electoral victory, but calling him a “ungrateful“.
Shortly thereafter, he launched a survey that inflamed the American political debate: “It is time to create a new political party In America that really represents 80% of people in the center? ” The post collected Over 230,000 votes In a few hours, a sign of the growing polarization and the increasingly influential role of Musk in public discourse.
Elon Musk He then strongly denied Trump’s statements, according to which he knew the expenditure law now criticized. “False – he wrote on X – That law has never been shown to me once. It was approved in the middle of the night so quickly that almost nobody at the congress managed to read it! “
Musk also attacked the content of the provision: “keep i Incentives cuts for electric and sunny vehicles, even if the subsidies a oil and gas They remain intact (very unfair !!). But eliminate the mountain of unnecessary expenses present in the law. “
In a rhetorical crescendo, the entrepreneur ironized on the adjectives used by Trump: “In the history of civilization one never existed Large and beautiful law. Everyone knows it. Or it is large and ugly, or it is slender and beautiful. The way to follow is slender and beautiful. “