Trump on Musk: «He’s got a problem»

Interviewed by ABC News and CNN, Trump visibly tries to reduce their breakup to the billionaire’s sudden instability, even claiming that he doesn’t think about him at all anymore, despite the humiliation inflicted when Musk publicly accused him of being in the Epstein Files.

President Donald Trump told CNN this morning that he is “not even thinking about” billionaire Elon Musk and won’t be speaking to him in the near future.“I’m not even thinking about Elon. He’s got a problem. The poor guy’s got a problem,” Trump said. Read more: cnn.it/4kU0BjJ

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In the aftermath of their public clash on their respective social networks, Trump claims that he’s already stopped thinking about Musk, and that although Musk is, in his view, trying to contact him, he has little desire to talk to him.

When asked by an ABC News reporter if he had a call scheduled with Elon Musk in the next few hours, Trump countered by calling the billionaire a man who has simply “lost his mind”.

“You mean the man who’s lost his mind?”, Trump reportedly retorted to the reporter before asserting that no, he wasn’t at all interested in talking to him before changing the subject.

On CNN , reporter Dana Bash, who met with the president several hours after the explosive events, reported that he was no longer thinking about Musk at all, and even described him as someone with a problem…

“Poor guy’s got a problem,” Trump reportedly quipped.

For now, Trump seems to be faring better than Musk, whose personal fortune, as well as that of his companies, has melted by billions of dollars in real time during their public feud.

Meanwhile, journalists who managed to obtain statements from Trump were visibly careful to avoid any questions about the accusations launched by Musk, who had notably suggested that the president was featured in the Epstein Files, a presence which, he claimed, would explain the non-disclosure of certain classified documents by Trump’s close allies, no less…