Musk fires back after Trump says he’s ‘very disappointed’ with the Tesla founder

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s ongoing feud over the “Big Beautiful Bill” intensified on Thursday when the tech billionaire responded to the president’s criticism in a post on X.

“Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate. Such ingratitude,” Musk wrote in a post responding to Trump’s remarks about him.

While speaking with reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said that he was “very disappointed” by Musk’s vocal criticisms of the bill. The president claimed that Musk knew what was in the bill and “had no problem” with it until the EV incentives had to be cut.

“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,” Trump said. “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 EV mandate.”

Musk pushed back on the president’s claim in another post on X and said that “this bill was never shown to me even once and was passed in the dead of night so fast that almost no one in Congress could even read it!”