Vice President JD Vance mentioned Elon Musk made a important error attacking President Donald Trump and his so-called Big Beautiful Bill.
“I think it’s a huge mistake for him to go after the president like that,” Vance instructed podcaster and comic Theo Von in an interview launched Friday. “I think that if he and the president are in some blood feud, most importantly it’s going to be bad for the country, but I don’t think it’s going to be good for Elon, either.”
The two had been taping an episode of Von’s podcast, “This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von,” as Trump and Musk publicly traded barbs on Thursday.
As Vance and Von spoke, Musk shared a submit to X, previously Twitter, accusing Trump of holding off on the discharge of information about late financier and convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein as a result of Trump being talked about in them.
“The fucking shit-missile is in the cannon,” Von mentioned, earlier than studying the submit aloud to Vance.
Vance acknowledged his loyalties would all the time be with Trump and defended the president in opposition to Musk’s accusations, saying Trump by no means did “anything wrong” with Epstein. Vance praised Musk’s work with the Department of Government Efficiency and urged Musk might simply be lashing out as a result of frustration with the political course of.
“I hope that eventually Elon kind of comes back into the fold,” Vance mentioned. “Maybe that’s not possible now, because he’s gone so nuclear.”
Vance mentioned it’s unfair for Musk to go after Trump for the Big Beautiful Bill — arguing it’s good however not good — and that Congress made the invoice, not Trump.
“I just think it’s a huge mistake for the world’s wealthiest man, I think one of the most transformational entrepreneurs ever, to be at this war with the world’s most powerful man, who I think is doing more to save the country than anybody— and I’m 40 years old — anybody in my lifetime,” Vance added.
Vance additionally addressed a submit through which Musk urged Trump must be impeached and changed with Vance, calling it “totally insane.”
Vance wasn’t the one Trump administration official to be taught of Musk’s feud with the president whereas taping a podcast. FBI Director Kash Patel was taping a podcast with Joe Rogan when Musk despatched the Epstein submit, prompting the podcast host to exclaim, “Jesus Christ, that’s a crazy thing to say.”
“I’m just staying out of the Trump-Elon thing, that’s way outside my lane,” Patel mentioned. “I know my lane, and that ain’t it.”
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