Trump-Musk feud dwell updates: President threatens Tesla boss with ‘serious consequences’ if he funds Democrats | EUROtoday

Protesters have been seen focusing on a Tesla retailer over HIV support cuts on Saturday, CNN reported.

Demonstrators accuse Musk, Trump, Kennedy Jr., Rubio of slashing HIV analysis funds.

People have been seen unfurling a banner outdoors the New York Tesla dealership that mentioned: “Health care is a human right.”

Just final week, President Donald Trump was handing his pal and shut aide Elon Musk a golden key to the White House, praising the work the tech billionaire had finished for the administration.

That press convention was to mark the top of Musk’s time as a particular authorities advisor, main the Department of Government Efficiency.

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US President Donald Trump threatened former shut advisor Elon Musk with “serious consequences” if he chooses to make use of his important wealth to fund Democrats.

Musk’s opposition to the spending invoice may lead the billionaire to fund challengers to Republicans who voted for it.

“If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump advised NBC News.

He additionally mentioned he had “no” want to restore his relationship and that he has “no intention of speaking to him.”

The chief of al-Qaida’s Yemen department has threatened each U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk over the Israel-Hamas conflict within the Gaza Strip in his first video message since taking up the group final yr.

The half-hour video message by Saad bin Atef al-Awlaki, which unfold on-line early Saturday by way of supporters of al-Qaida within the Arabian Peninsula, additionally included requires lone-wolf militants to assassinate leaders in Egypt, Jordan, and the Gulf Arab states over the conflict, which has decimated Gaza.

James Liddell and Alicja Hagopian Write:

Musk harnessed his social media platform to propel Donald Trump to the White House, feeding anti-Democrat content material and election conspiracy theories to his followers. Now Musk is popping that very same platform – residence to just about 600 million month-to-month customers – in opposition to him.

Whatever accusations that detractors may stage at Sir Keir Starmer, the phrases present pony, flashy or flamboyant wouldn’t be amongst them. He hates the performative in politics and isn’t a lot within the flummery that goes with excessive workplace.

However, there was one notable event when he did go in for some rigorously rehearsed and orchestrated theatricality. It was when he sat down with Donald Trump within the Oval Office; the world’s press was there to file the event. He reached into the within pocket of his go well with jacket and produced a letter with the crimson royal seal on the envelope – and handed it to a beaming Donald Trump.

This week, the 2 former allies bitterly fell out with every sharing robust accusations in opposition to the opposite on social media.

Musk, who infamously invested thousands and thousands into Trump’s marketing campaign and rapidly dubbed himself “first buddy,” turned the top of the Department of Government Efficiency. The division was tasked with slashing the federal price range. However, Musk quickly discovered himself ousted from the president’s interior circle after clashing with Trump over his proposed spending invoice.