Elon Musk Mocks Trump After ‘Train Wreck’ Jibe – Newsweek
Published
Jul 07, 2025 at 04:35 AM EDT
Senior US News Reporter
Elon Musk has mocked President Donald Trump after he called him a “train wreck” on Sunday.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that he was “saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely ‘off the rails,’ essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks.”
He said Musk’s desire to create a new political party, dubbed the ‘America Party’, would create “chaos,” and criticized him for not backing his spending bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Responding to Trump’s post on X, formerly Twitter, Musk wrote: “What’s Truth Social?” He added in another post: “Never heard of it.”
Musk was previously a key supporter of Trump during the 2024 presidential election cycle, and went on to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Since he left the White House at the end of May, Musk’s relationship with Trump has soured significantly. He came out in opposition of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, branding is a “disgusting abomination” and “political suicide.” The bill was passed by Congress last week.
Musk also said that Republican lawmakers who campaigned on cutting federal spending but backed Trump’s bill “should hang their heads in shame.”
Musk’s response to Trump’s criticism appeared to draw comparisons between X, which he owns, and Truth Social, created in 2022 by Trump Media & Technology Group – a company founded by Trump.
Estimates from Similarweb show that X had more than 680 million total visits in June this year, compared to around 39 million for Truth Social.
In his criticism of Musk, Trump wrote on Sunday: “The one thing Third Parties are good for is the creation of Complete and Total DISRUPTION & CHAOS, and we have enough of that with the Radical Left Democrats, who have lost their confidence and their minds! Republicans, on the other hand, are a smooth running ‘machine,’ that just passed the biggest Bill of its kind in the History of our Country.
“It is a Great Bill but, unfortunately for Elon, it eliminates the ridiculous Electric Vehicle (EV) Mandate, which would have forced everyone to buy an Electric Car in a short period of time. I have been strongly opposed to that from the very beginning. People are now allowed to buy whatever they want – Gasoline Powered, Hybrids (which are doing very well), or New Technologies as they come about – No more EV Mandate.
“I have campaigned on this for two years and, quite honestly, when Elon gave me his total and unquestioned Endorsement, I asked him whether or not he knew that I was going to terminate the EV Mandate – It was in every speech I made, and in every conversation I had. He said he had no problems with that – I was very surprised!”
He added: “Additionally, Elon asked that one of his close friends run NASA and, while I thought his friend was very good, I was surprised to learn that he was a blue blooded Democrat, who had never contributed to a Republican before. Elon probably was, also.”
Dafydd Townley, an American politics expert at the University of Portsmouth, told Newsweek previously: “Third parties do not tend to have a long lifetime in American politics,” adding that Musk’s new party “would likely split the Republican vote, potentially resulting in a Democrat-dominated House of Representatives, at least in the short term, due to the winner-takes-all electoral system.”
Kevin Madden, a senior partner at Penta Group, previously told Newsweek:”The reality is that most voters tend to gravitate to their major-party allegiances, leaving a third-party without the funding and organizational manpower to make major progress. The ‘big middle of the American electorate is still the main battleground for winning and losing elections, but it’s not organized to the degree that a third-party movement can be built whole cloth from it.”
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