{"id":16322,"date":"2025-05-30T09:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=16322"},"modified":"2025-05-30T09:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:32:04","slug":"donald-trump-breaks-silence-on-elon-musk-quitting-doge-after-leaving-him-one-final-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=16322","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump breaks silence on Elon Musk quitting DOGE after leaving him one final message"},"content":{"rendered":"

The POTUS has spoken out after his ‘first buddy’ handed in his resignation days before expected<\/h2>\n

President Donald Trump has broken his silence after Elon Musk stepped down from his role as head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).<\/strong><\/p>\n

With his ‘first buddy’ stepping down from his post in\u00a0politics<\/a>, all eyes were cast on the POTUS for his thoughts on the departure – but it wasn’t until almost a day later until we heard from the 78-year-old.<\/p>\n

It has long been rumored that their relationship had become fractured, with the pair having been inseparable in the first few months of the Republican reclaiming the Oval Office – but in terms of the billionaire’s exit from the Trump administration,\u00a0it was expected<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That is because Musk had been working under a distinct role in the\u00a0US<\/a>\u00a0government as a \u2018special government employee\u2019 – which allowed him to work for up to 130 days in the office each year.<\/p>\n

However, his resignation came three days early, and only one day after he criticized\u00a0Trump’s<\/a>\u00a0‘big, beautiful bill’.<\/p>\n

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Elon Musk had been working under a distinct role as a ‘special government employee’ prior to his exit (Yuri Gripas for The Washington Post via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Speaking to CBS in a preview clip that aired on Tuesday (May 27),\u00a0Musk<\/a>\u00a0said: “I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill frankly, which increases the budget deficit not just decrease it, and undermines the work that the Doge team is doing.<\/p>\n

“I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful… but I don’t know if it could be both, my personal opinion.”<\/p>\n

The bill devised an increased in defense spending, including\u00a0Trump’s ambition to implement a ‘Golden Dome’<\/a>\u00a0above the US, which would protect it from enemy missiles, as well as multi-trillion dollar tax breaks.<\/p>\n

However, as Musk mentioned, it undermined his role as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) – with the new legislation could could increase government spending by around $600 billion in the next fiscal year.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump is set to give Musk a fare well later today (May 30), from the Oval Office (Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Regardless, of any friction between the couple, Trump looks set to give Musk a proper send off for his involvement in helping him reclaim the White House.<\/p>\n

Taking to\u00a0Truth Social<\/a>, the president posted: “I am having a Press Conference tomorrow at 1:30 P.M. EST, with Elon Musk, at the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

“This will be his last day, but not really, because he will, always, be with us, helping all the way. Elon is terrific! See you tomorrow at the White House.”<\/p>\n

Yes, the pair are set to say fare well later today on May 30 – which is much better way for the world’s richest man to depart, with Trump only having posted a cryptic message hours after news broke that Musk was leaving politics.<\/p>\n

Posting a meme to his account, it pictured Trump walking in the middle of a darkened street at night, captioned: \u201cHe\u2019s on a mission from God & nothing can stop what is coming.\u201d<\/p>\n