A timeline of Donald Trump’s relationship and Elon Musk

Musk publicly supports Trump after an attempt to murder a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Musk publications on the social media platform X: “Fully support to President Trump and I await his rapid recovery.”

In August, Musk held a conversation with Trump in X. The live broadcast, had an unfavorable start, with technical difficulties delaying the event for almost an hour.

Trump and Musk congratulated each other in a great chat, covering issues such as vice president Kamala Harris, how Trump handled the attempt at murder and climate change.

Later, Musk suggests that he is “willing to serve” in the government. He Tesla The CEO published an image of itself in X as representative of Doge, an acronym for the Government’s efficiency department.

In early October, Musk appears in a Trump demonstration in Pennsylvania, where Trump survived the previous murder attempt.

Using a cap with the slogan “Make America Great Again” of Trump’s campaign, Musk said Trump was the only candidate “to preserve democracy in the United States.”

Public alignment exhibitions continue, which reinforces Musk’s growing proximity to Trump’s political return.

After Trump’s re -election, Musk is appointed to lead Doge along with former presidential candidate of Republican Party Vivek Ramasswamy. The department is formed through the executive order with the mission of cutting federal expenditure and bureaucracy.

“Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my administration to dismantle the governmental bureaucracy, cut the excess regulations, reduce waste and restructuring expenses to federal agencies,” Trump said in a statement at that time.

Ramasswamy would then leave his role as a co-leader of Doge to follow the elected office.

Maye Musk, Elon’s mother, then comments that the two “seem to be having fun.”

Two weeks after his electoral victory, Trump attended a rocket launch “Starship” Spacex in Texas with Musk.

At Trump’s inauguration, Musk receives luxurious praise from the president: “We have a new star. A star is born. Elon!”

Musk joins Trump CEO calls, along with the leaders of AmazonGoogle, Goaland others.

At the beginning of March, Trump tells the members of the Cabinet that they are in charge of the respective agencies and departments that supervise, not a musk. The posterior technological magnate publishes in X that the meeting was “very productive.”

Trump converts the White House grass into a Tesla exhibition room and defends Musk as the electric vehicle manufacturer incurs a global reaction.

“This great company has built, and should not be penalized because it is a patriot,” Trump said at that time.

The president also described cars as “beautiful” and said he would buy one.

Musk undertakes to reduce “significantly” his participation in Dogs in the coming weeks.

Reports arise from Musk is distracted and stretched too much, which promotes concerns between Tesla and Spacex investors.

At the time of profits of the first trimester of Tesla in April, which lost expectations, the actions of the EV manufacturer fell more than 40% during the year so far.

In an interview with CBS News, Musk publicly criticizes Trump’s tax and expenses bill, saying that he counteracts the work he has been doing to reduce the disturbing expenditure of the government.

“I was disappointed to see the massive bill of expenses, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not only decrease it, and undermines the work that the team is doing,” he said.

Trump responded to criticism by saying that he was not happy with certain aspects of the bill, “but I am excited for other aspects. This is how they are going.”

A day after transmitting his criticisms to Trump’s bill, Musk leaves the White House. Thanks the president for the opportunity to direct Doge.

Trump celebrates a farewell event for Musk, praising his work in the government, but says that “he really does not go” and that he occasionally returns to the White House because Doge is his “baby.”

Musk attacks Trump’s expense bill more, describing it from an “unpleasant abomination” that will exploit federal budgetary deficits. “Shame for those who voted: you know you did wrong. You know it,” Musk said in X.

Criticism quickly becomes a total fight between Trump and Musk, with the couple exchanging spikes during several hours.

The president of the United States threatened to withdraw billions of dollars in government contracts for Musk companies, while Tesla CEO suggested that Trump could not have won the elections without him.

“Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we’ll do it,” Trump said.