Vance also said the president was ‘frustrated’ with some of the comments Musk made about him and his sweeping tax and spending bill.
President Donald Trump was “frustrated” with tech billionaire Elon Musk’s recent posts lambasting him and his spending bill, but doesn’t want a long-term feud with his former adviser, Vice President JD Vance said on June 11.
Vance told reporters at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts that he had spoken to Trump about his public disagreements with Musk and that the president felt the billionaire campaign donor had said “some unacceptable things.”
“I think the president was rightfully very frustrated about that, but he also wishes Elon well and has no desire to be in some long-term feud or beef with Elon Musk,” Vance said.
Vance said he believes it is “in the best interest of the whole country for one of the country’s great entrepreneurs to also be supportive of the president and our agenda.”
If Musk chooses not to be supportive, it will ultimately be his loss, Vance said.
“I suspect that Elon Musk very much wants to be on the team and it’s for him and the president to speak to their direct relationship,” Vance stated, adding that the Trump administration was grateful for the work Musk did early in the process of making the government more efficient via the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Vance told reporters he had also spoken to Musk about his feud with Trump, but did not go into detail about their conversation.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO had expressed regret over some of his recent posts about Trump and his sweeping tax and spending bill, dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” writing in a June 11 post on social media platform X that those posts “went too far.”
Musk did not specify which of his comments he regretted. He has since deleted some of the posts.
