US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk take part in a press event in the Oval White House office in Washington, USA, May 30, 2025.
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July 2024
Musk publicly supports Trump after attempt to murder During the campaign rally in Butler in Pennsylvania.
Musk posts On the social media platform x: “I fully support President Trump and I hope for his quick recovery.”
August – October 2024
In August, Musk conducted a conversation with Trump on the X. Glitchy Livesteam began at the beginning, with technical difficulties delayed by the event by almost an hour.
Trump and Musk congratulated each other in a wide -end chat, including topics such as the then president Vice Kamala Harris, as Trump coped with the attempt to murder and climate change.
Later, Musk suggests that he is “ready to serve” in the government. . Tesla CEO Published Picture on X as a representative of the dog, acronym for the government department.
The General Director of Tesla, Elon Musk (R), jumps onto the stage when he joins the former US president and candidate for republican president Donald Trump during the campaign rally on his first place of his first attempt to murder at Butler in Pennsylvania on October 5, 2024.
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At the beginning of October, Musk appears at the rally of Trump in Pennsylvania, where Trump survived an earlier attempt to murder.
By wearing a hat with the slogan “Make America Great” by the Trump campaign, Musk said that Trump was the only candidate “retaining democracy in America.”
Public compensation shows are underway, strengthening the growing proximity of Musk to Trump's political return.
November 2024
After the re -election of Trump, Musk is appointed to conduct Doge along with the former presidential candidate GOP Vivek Ramaswama. The department is created through an ordinance with a mission to reduce federal expenditure and bureaucracy.
“Together these two miracle Americans will pave the path of my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, reducing excess regulations, limiting waste and restructuring of federal agencies”, Trump he said in a statement at that time.
Ramaswama later left his role as a co -founder of Doge to continue the elected office.
American President Donald Trump welcomed Elon Musk when he arrives to take part in the shot of the sixth test flight of the Starship Spacex rocket on November 19, 2024 at Brownsville, Texas.
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Maye Musk, Elon's mother, later comments that both “seem to have fun”.
Two weeks after the victory of the Trump election attended Exhibition of the SpaceX “Starship” rocket in Texas next to Musk.
January 2025
At the inauguration of Trump, musk He receives generous praise From the president: “We have a new star. Bord's star. Elon!”
Musk joins CEO of Trump, along with the leaders from AmazonGoogle, Finishand others.
February – brand 2025
Elon Musk, senior adviser to the White House, goes to the White House after landing in a sea lawn with US President Donald Trump (not in the photo) on March 9, 2025 in Washington.
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At the beginning of March, Trump tells the members of the office that they are responsible for the relevant agencies and departments that supervise – not musk. Later Mogul Tech posts At the 10th meeting it was “very productive”.
Trump turns the lawn of the White House into Tesla showroom and musk weapons when the manufacturer of electric vehicles bears global slack.
US President Donald Trump and a senior adviser to the White House, Tesla and CEO Spacex, Elon Musk, sit in the S model on the southern lawn of the White House on March 11, 2025 in Washington.
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“He built this big company and should not be punished because he is a patriot,” said Trump.
The president also described cars as “beautiful” and said that he would buy them.
April 2025
Musk undertakes to “significantly” reduce his involvement in Doge in the coming weeks.
There are reports that the musk is dispersed and excessively stretched, driving concerns among investors of Tesla and Spacex.
Tesla shares
In the time of Tesla Earnings in the first quarter In April – which omitted the expectations – the EV manufacturer's shares fell by more than 40% during the year.
May 2025
In an interview with CBS messagesMusk publicly criticizes Characteristic Trump tax i invoiceSpeaking, he prevents the work he performed to reduce the waste of government expenditure.
“I was disappointed when, to be honest, that a huge expenditure account increases the budget deficit, not only reduces it, and undermines the work performed by the Doge team,” he said.
Trump responded to criticism, saying that he was not satisfied with certain aspects of the bill: “But I am excited about other aspects.
The General Director of Tesla, Elon Musk, speaks with the US President Donald Trump to reporters in the Oval White House office on May 30, 2025 in Washington.
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One day after issuing the criticism of Trump's account, Musk leaves White House. Thank you to the President for the possibility of conducting a dog.
Trump organizes a farewell event for musk, praising his work in the government, but says that “he doesn't really leave” and from time to time he returns to the White House, because Doge is his “child”.
June 2025
Musk continues to the Trump's expenditure account, calling him “disgusting disgust“It explodes federal budget deficits.” Shame on those who voted for this: you know you did wrong. You know that – Musk he said on X.
Criticism quickly intensifies into a total online fight between Trump and Musk, and the couple trade spikes within a few hours.
US President threatened withdraw billions of dollars in government contracts for Muska, while the General Director of Tesla suggested Trump couldn't win elections without him.
“Elon and I had a great relationship. I don't know if we'll do it anymore,” said Trump.