Elon Musk
Speaker Johnson hopes Musk and Trump can ‘reconcile’ their differences after public fallout
US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Republican from Louisiana, speaks during a news conference after a House Republican conference meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on June 4, 2025. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday that he hopes President Donald Trump and Elon Musk can “reconcile” […]
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Trump says Elon Musk will face ‘serious consequences’ if he backs Democratic candidates
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures while boarding Air Force One as he departs for New Jersey at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., June 6, 2025. Nathan Howard | Reuters President Donald Trump told NBC News on Saturday that Elon Musk would see “serious consequences” if he backs Democratic candidates who challenge Republicans supporting the “big, […]
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Elon Musk appears to delete some explosive X posts amid feud with Trump
Elon Musk speaks during a press event with U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured), at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 30, 2025. Nathan Howard | Reuters Elon Musk has appeared to delete some of his posts on his social media platform X that escalated his bitter feud with President Donald Trump this […]
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Vance says Musk making a ‘huge mistake’ in going after Trump but also tries to downplay the attacks
Vice President JD Vance said Elon Musk was making a “huge mistake” going after President Donald Trump in a storm of bitter and inflammatory social media posts after a falling out between the two men. But the vice president, in an interview released Friday after the very public blow up between the world’s richest man […]
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Tesla Optimus robotics vice president Milan Kovac is leaving the company
Tesla displays Optimus next to two of its vehicles at the World Robot Conference in Beijing on Aug. 22, 2024. CNBC | Evelyn Tesla’s vice president of Optimus robotics, Milan Kovac, said on Friday that he’s leaving the company. In a post on X, Kovac thanked Tesla CEO Elon Musk and reminisced about his tenure, […]
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Tesla already had big problems. Then Musk went to battle with Trump
President Donald Trump holds a news conference with Elon Musk to mark the end of the Tesla CEO’s tenure as a special government employee overseeing the U.S. DOGE Service on Friday May 30, 2025 in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Tom Brenner | The Washington Post | Getty Images Tesla has […]
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U.S. payrolls increased 139,000 in May, more than expected; unemployment at 4.2%
Hiring decreased just slightly in May even as consumers and companies braced against tariffs and a potentially slowing economy, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Nonfarm payrolls rose 139,000 for the month, above the muted Dow Jones estimate for 125,000 and a bit below the downwardly revised 147,000 that the U.S. economy added in […]
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What the Musk-Trump feud could mean for Tesla stock
The spat between U.S. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, entered new territory on Thursday — with Tesla getting caught up in the fallout. What began with Musk publicly slamming Trump’s spending bill has evolved into a full-blown row between the two, with the president threatening to withdraw billions of dollars’ […]
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Tesla jumps 5% in premarket trading as stock reels from Trump-Musk drama
A Tesla car dealership stands on June 5, 2025 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Tesla shares climbed in U.S. premarket trading Friday after tensions between CEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump fueled a $152 billion rout for the stock a day earlier. Shares of Tesla were […]
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From bromance to bitter feud — a timeline of Trump and Musk’s relationship
U.S. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk attend a press event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 30, 2025. Nathan Howard | Reuters July 2024 Musk publicly endorses Trump following an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Musk posts on social media platform X: “I […]
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