Trump-Musk feud live updates: President says Tesla boss will face ‘serious consequences’ if he funds Dems to run against GOP

JD Vance broke his silence on the feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk during an interview with comedian Theo Von.

The president and the world’s richest man had a public falling out last week after Musk began criticizing Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” calling it a “disgusting abomination” in a June 3 post to X.

Musk later escalated the tensions after claiming that Trump appeared in the still-sealed Jeffrey Epstein files, and that was the reason they had yet to be released.

Trump has since fired back at Musk from his Truth Social platform, threatening to cut the former DOGE head’s government contracts.

During a guest appearance on “This Past Weekend with Theo Von” that aired on Saturday (June 7), the vice president was shown the Epstein tweet and claimed it was his first time seeing it.

“First of all, absolutely not, Donald Trump didn’t do anything wrong with Jeffrey Epstein,” Vance said.

The fallout was always going to be top of the order for Real Time with Bill Maher.

“When you think about it, the richest man in the world and the most powerful man in the world, it’s like Godzilla versus King Kong, if Godzilla was on ketamine and King Kong had a comb over,” the comedian said on Friday’s episode.

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The 33-year-old Miller was one of Musk’s first hires as he established the Department of Government Efficiency and began reducing the federal workforce. She left the administration alongside him last week. Like Musk, she was designated as a “special government employee” during her time in government, which allowed her to work for Musk and Trump, as well as in the private sector, simultaneously.

The leader of al-Qaida’s Yemen branch has threatened both U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip in his first video message since taking over the group last year.

The half-hour video message by Saad bin Atef al-Awlaki, which spread online early Saturday via supporters of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, also included calls for lone-wolf militants to assassinate leaders in Egypt, Jordan and the Gulf Arab states over the war, which has decimated Gaza.

The video of al-Awlaki’s speech showed images of Trump and Musk, as well as U.S. Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of State Pete Hegseth. It also included images of logos of Musk’s businesses, including the electric carmaker Tesla.

Republican U.S. Rep. Blake Moore told reporters that, behind the scenes, many were skeptical about the bold claims of the world’s richest man.

“Most everybody knew Elon was exaggerating what he could do,” Moore of Utah told reporters outside the Capitol on Thursday. “He was claiming to find $4 billion a day in cuts he was going to get. One time, he said $2 trillion, he was going to find.”

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Just last week, President Donald Trump was handing his friend and close aide Elon Musk a golden key to the White House, praising the work the tech billionaire had done for the administration.

That press conference was to mark the end of Musk’s time as a special government advisor, leading the Department of Government Efficiency.

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s spectacular fallout could have catastrophic consequences for the future of space travel.

The two men – the president and the person who previously referred to himself as the “first buddy” – have been engaged in a high-profile fight that has seen them make a host of threats and allegations about each other in public.

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Trump told NBC News in an interview that Musk will face “serious consequences” if he chooses to use his significant wealth to fund Democrats.

Musk’s opposition to the Republican spending bill up for debate in Congress could lead the billionaire to fund challengers to Republicans who voted for it.

“If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC News in a phone interview.

“He’ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that,” the president added.

Trump told the network he has no intention of trying to repair the relationship.

“I would assume so, yeah,” he said when asked if his relationship with Musk was over.

“I have no intention of speaking to him,” said Trump.

“I think it’s a very bad thing, because he’s very disrespectful. You could not disrespect the office of the President,” he added.

He also rejected the allegation from Musk that he’s in the “Epstein Files.”

“That’s called ‘old news,’ that’s been old news, that has been talked about for years,” Trump told NBC News on Saturday. “Even Epstein’s lawyer said I had nothing to do with it. It’s old news.”

Trump claimed that Musk’s criticism of the spending package has allowed Republican lawmakers to see the benefits of the legislation.

“I think, actually, Elon brought out the strengths of the bill because people that weren’t as focused started focusing on it, and they see how good it is,” said Trump. “So in that sense, there was a big favor. But I think Elon, really, I think it’s a shame that he’s so depressed and so heartbroken.”

On the “This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von,” episode released Saturday, Von showed Vance one of the most viral tweets from the pair’s feud, in which the Tesla CEO claimed, “@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.”

“Ok, wow. I haven’t even seen this one,” Vance said, explaining he was on a plane amid Musk and Trump’s online exchanges.

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