Trump Chief Of Staff Spills On Elon Musk's 'Troublesome' Ending In Rare Interview

Elon Musk, Donald TrumpWhite House chief of staff Susie Wiles is opening up about US President Donald Tump’s rift with former billionaire buddy Elon Musk.Wiles said that most of the conjecture she’s seen is wrong. “I know that what has been said doesn’t ring accurate to me,” she told New York Post columnist Miranda Devine. “But I don’t know.” Devine said Musk seemed very comfortable around Trump, but that it also seemed a “blow-up” between the two was inevitable. “How did you see that relationship?” she asked Wiles, who gives few interviews. “The president was very very kind to him and Elon had so much to offer us. He knew things we didn’t know. He knew people and technologies that we didn’t know,” she said. “It was a great thing when it was a great thing. And had a very, I think, a very troublesome ending.”Wiles praised Musk for being not just the world’s richest man, but also possibly the smartest, and said she “enjoyed” working with him.“But certainly came to not a good ending,” she said. Devine asked if Wiles thought Musk got “jealous” when he didn’t get enough of Trump’s attention.“No, that doesn’t sound like Elon,” she said. “I don’t know.”Musk spent some $291 million to help Republicans in last year’s election, with much of that effort going toward Trump. He became a top campaign surrogate, speaking at events for Trump, and was constantly at Trump’s side after the election and in the first months of the new administration. Trump tasked him with cutting waste and fraud as part of the “DOGE” initiative, which led to chaos throughout the government but limited savings. Musk left his government role in May, with Trump giving him a ceremonial key to the White House. However, Musk turned on Trump almost immediately, attacking the president’s signature “big beautiful bill” as a “disgusting abomination” for adding trillions to the debt. Wiles reportedly helped broker a truce, but it didn’t last. The two have publicly sparred since, with Musk accusing Trump of being on late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s supposed “list,” and the president threatening to cut funding to his companies. Musk has also started his own political party in response to the bill’s passage. See more of Wiles’ conversation with Devine on the Pod Force One podcast below: Related...CNN’s Jake Tapper Says Public Is ‘Being Played’ By Trump Administration Over Epstein FilesTrump Ignorantly Praises Liberian President's ' Good English': 'That's Beautiful'Trump Just Called Out Putin's 'Bulls***' – But Don't Expect Anything To Change In Ukraine

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