{"id":9673,"date":"2025-06-06T03:05:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T03:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=9673"},"modified":"2025-06-06T03:05:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T03:05:44","slug":"trump-musk-feud-escalates-over-tax-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=9673","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Musk feud escalates over tax bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Tensions between Donald Trump and Elon Musk exploded into public view Thursday, as the US president said he was &#8220;very disappointed&#8221; by his billionaire former aide&#8217;s criticisms and Musk hit back in real time on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look, Elon and I had a great relationship. I don&#8217;t know if we will anymore,&#8221; Trump told reporters in the Oval Office after Musk slammed his tax and spending mega-bill as an &#8220;abomination&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s richest man responded by live-tweeting on his X social media platform as Trump spoke on television, saying that the Republican would not have won the 2024 election without him and slamming him for &#8220;ingratitude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an extraordinary rant as visiting German Chancellor Friedrich Merz sat mutely beside him, 78-year-old Trump unloaded on SpaceX and Tesla boss Musk in his first comments on the issue.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions between Donald Trump and Elon Musk exploded into public view Thursday, as the US president said he was &#8220;very disappointed&#8221; by his billionaire former aide&#8217;s criticisms and Musk hit back in real time on social media. &#8220;Look, Elon and I had a great relationship. I don&#8217;t know if we will anymore,&#8221; Trump told reporters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}