The divorce Mask – Donald Trump It’s definitive. Tesla’s billionaire CEO, Elon Musk and sometimes a “favorite” associate of the US president, is leaving the Trump administration after leading a hectic efficiency effort, during which he upset several federal services, but eventually failed to achieve his savings.
Musk’s term, 130 -day, As a special government official in the Trump government, it was about to end on May 30.
Although “planned”, the announcement of his departure came one day after Musk criticized Donald Trump’s “big and beautiful bill”, believing that he is undermining the work of the White House Doge team with the increase in the fiscal deficit.
His departure was quickly and without an official conversation with Trump before he announced that he was leaving the government, according to a source that he knows.
The Musk Post
Elon Musk announced his scheduled retirement from President Donald Trump’s team By posting his personal account on “X”, leaving the US president’s handling while their relationships are not admittedly at the best.
The businessman confirmed yesterday, Wednesday (28.05.2025) that he completed the mission of reducing federal spending after four months of experimentation and thanked President Trump for the opportunity he gave him.
“As the scheduled period during which I worked as a special government official is coming to an end, I would like to thank President Trump for giving me the opportunity to reduce the unnecessary costs.”Musk wrote yesterday in X.
“The ‘Doge’ mission (ed. The Government Efficiency Committee) will be further strengthened in the future to make a way of life in the government,” added Tesla and SpaceX chief.
As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President @realDonaldTrump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending.
The @DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 29, 2025
However, in an interview with the CBS television network, which was broadcast on Tuesday night, Musk adopted a different tone, more aggressive.
“I was disappointed by seeing this mass spending bill which, sincerely, will increase the budget deficit and will not reduce it and undermine the work of the Doge team”commented on the budget bill promoted by Trump.
After all, Musk complained by speaking in Washington Post that Doge “The scapegoat had ended up for everything.”
The intense criticism of the “big beautiful bill” of the Trump government
The ‘Big and beautiful bill’ The budget, as the US president calls it, is currently being considered by Congress.
Its aim is to apply some of the Republican’s pre -election promises, such as the “Trump tax return” height he had approved during his first term, but will end at the end of the year.
Elon Musk in new CBS interview: I think a bill can be big or beautiful, but I don’t know if it can be both.
“I was, like, disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it and undermines the work that the DOGE team… pic.twitter.com/XHS9InZJU7
— ELON CLIPS (@ElonClipsX) May 28, 2025
According to an analysis by the independent Congress Budget Office, this bill will increase the federal deficit, which already reaches 36.2 trillion. dollars, by $ 3.8 trillion in the next decade.
“I believe that a law can be great or it may be nice. But I don’t know if they can be both, “Musk said in an interview at CBS Newswhich will be broadcast as a whole Sunday.
This billionaire comment is the his first public rupture with Trump, The alliance with which it emerged during the election campaign for the presidential election.
Musk offered large sums to support the Republican’s presidential ambitions, while their relationship became even closer at the beginning of his second term in the US presidency.
Musk and Trump they were inseparable for weeks after the swearing -in ceremony on January 20th. The billionaire appeared everywhere: pTrump’s side in the Oval Office, on the Presidential Aircraft, in cabinets, in the White House garden during an unprecedented advertising of Tesla cars…
Mask’s tall figure, always dressed in black with a hat on his head, was ubiquitous, while Trump was making one announcement after another: Interruption of international aid provided by the US, closure of federal services, federal employees.
However, it did not take long to appear articles in the US media referring to Trump’s reactions to Musk methods and decisions.
His mission had been announced from the outset that it would be limited time and his status as a special government official lasted 130 days.
At the end of April, Musk announced that he was withdrawing more to deal with his business, especially with Tesla, whose sales were falling as his owner became one of the most divisive personalities in the world.
On Saturday, after a brief damage to X, which is also owned, Musk wrote: “I returned to spend 24 hours a day and 7 days a week at work and sleeping in meeting rooms/ server/ factories.”
His involvement in federal state affairs has raised many questions about a possible conflict of interests due to the many contracts signed by his companies with the government.
Reuters, AFP, RES-EIA information