Trump 'not interested' in call with Musk, White House official says

President Donald Trump is "not interested" successful a telephone with Tesla CEO Elon Musk to resoluteness their feud, a elder White House authoritative told NBC News connected Friday morning.

The 2 billionaires launched a warfare of words connected Thursday implicit Musk's continued disapproval of Trump's projected tax bill, which is pending successful the Senate.

Trump said Musk, who until a week agone was 1 of his apical authorities advisors, had gone "crazy" and threatened to termination national contracts with his companies, which see SpaceX.

Musk, successful turn, said Trump could not person been elected president without his monolithic fiscal support, and accused the Republican of ingratitude for that, and for lying successful saying that helium had ousted Musk from the White House due to the fact that the CEO was "wearing thin."

Musk besides said SpaceX would decommission its Dragon spacecraft, the lone existent U.S. method of transporting unit to and from the International Space Station. Musk aboriginal said Dragon would not beryllium decommissioned.

"No. I won't beryllium speaking to him for a portion I guess, but I privation him well," Trump told CNN, that outlet reported Friday morning.

 "I'm not adjacent reasoning astir Elon. He's got a problem. The mediocre guy's got a problem," Trump said.

Trump's main of staff, Susie Wiles, separately told NBC News that "there are nary plans for that today," erstwhile asked astir a study by Politico that White House aides "scheduled a telephone Friday with the billionaire CEO of Tesla to broker a peace."

But an medication authoritative told NBC, "There could beryllium thing — I'd similar to de-escalate a precise unfortunate situation."

"There are nary calls connected the books, astatine slightest not now," the authoritative said.