{"id":1479,"date":"2025-07-24T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2025-07-29T19:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:37:54","slug":"trump-denies-wanting-to-destroy-musks-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/trump-denies-wanting-to-destroy-musks-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump denies wanting to \u2018destroy\u2019 Musk\u2019s companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump on Thursday denied wanting to harm<\/a> tech billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s businesses, amid questions over whether he supports federal agencies working with the Tesla CEO’s companies.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is stating that I will destroy Elon\u2019s companies by taking away some, if not all, of the large scale subsidies he receives from the U.S. Government. This is not so!\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cI want Elon, and all businesses within our Country, to THRIVE, in fact, THRIVE like never before! The better they do, the better the USA does, and that\u2019s good for all of us. We are setting records every day, and I want to keep it that way!\u201d<\/p>\n

The president’s comments come a day after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she does not think<\/a> Trump supports federal agencies contracting with Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence company, xAI.<\/p>\n

When asked if Trump would then want the government to cancel a recently announced contract with the venture, Leavitt said she would talk to the president about it.<\/p>\n

xAI scored a contract<\/a> for up to $200 million with the Department of Defense, alongside Anthropic, Google and OpenAI, last week. This week, xAI unveiled a suite of products for U.S. government customers, which it refers to as Grok for Government.  <\/p>\n

Trump has previously threatened to cancel federal contracts<\/a> with Musk’s businesses, such as SpaceX, saying in June<\/a>, \u201cThe easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon\u2019s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump and Musk have been in a bitter feud<\/a> since their falling out<\/a> at the end of May, around when the tech guru’s role as a special government employee ended<\/a> and while the Tesla chief was publicly critical of the spending and tax megabill<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Trump on Thursday denied wanting to harm tech billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s businesses, amid questions over whether he supports federal agencies working with the Tesla CEO’s companies. \u201cEveryone is stating<\/p>\n

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