WH Chief of Staff: Trump, Musk Had ‘Troublesome Ending’

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said the relationship between President Donald Trump and tech mogul Elon Musk had a “very troublesome ending.”

“The president was very, very kind to him, and Elon had so much to offer us,” Wiles said during an appearance on the New York Post podcast “Pod Force One,” which aired Thursday. “He knew things we didn’t know. He knew people and technologies that we didn’t know. It was a great thing when it was a great thing, and had a very, I think, a very troublesome ending.”

Wiles said she doesn’t understand why Trump and Musk had their falling out, which appeared to begin following Musk’s pointed criticisms of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which Congress passed last week and Trump signed into law July 4.

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