Trump asked his advisers if they believe that Musk's manifestations could be related to drug use – the latest developments in the President and Billionaire scandal
Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Photo: Profimedia
Speaking with reporters on Air Force One Friday night, Trump said he would “analyze” some of Musk's government contracts, a possibility he mentioned and when the conflict with Elon Musk began.
“The United States can survive without almost anyone-except me,” Donald Trump said on Friday, in a discussion with reporters in the presidential plane, CNN reports, about the latest developments of the scandal at the peak of power, which surprised America and the world. Then the US president said he was joking. But only in relation to this last aspect, that of the country's survival, while it was serious about the possible stop of Elon Musk's contracts.
From the nearest counselor and friend, the billionaire became, in a spectacular turn of the situation, “a man with big problems”, as Trump characterized.
Trump: “I don't know”
A source also invoked by CNN said that Trump asked in private about Musk's alleged drug use. The president has questioned assistants and counselors if they believe that Elon Musk's behavior for the last 48 hours could be related to his alleged drug use, trying private to understand the technological billionaire attacks, while he publicly reported that he did not care, he told CNN a source familiar with the conversations. Asked by the American press, the president refused to pronounce publicly in this regard.
“I do not want to comment on his drug use (no Musk's no.
After a day when they changed acidic, insulting replicas, such as Musk to Trump “without me you would have lost the choices”, each of the two avoids attacking.
The most annoying side of Trump – Musk conflict
The fight between the two revealed not only “a new America”, but also “a new society”, writes the New York Times Michelle Goldberg.
“The last 24 hours should be a lesson for both Musk and all the other billionaires who have lined up with Trump. Trying to get rid of regulations, they got into a deep, even existential position. When the rule of law gives the place of the leader, there are a lot of the opportunity, but only the opportunity to enrich the leader.
“Americans tend to believe that being rich makes you strong,” Juffrey Kopstein recently told me. In fact, what looks was to be strong. “
“In the world Musk and his Silicon Valley allies helped to establish, submission to politics is as important to the great entrepreneurs. Musk, maybe, deserve to live in this world. We, the others.”
