Trump Wants to Sell Tesla After Musk Row
US President Donald Trump may sell or give away his red Tesla electric car, which he bought in March and showed off to journalists at the White House, a White House official said on condition of anonymity.
The Gaze reports on this with reference to The Wall Street Journal.
In March, Trump bought a Tesla to support Musk amid a wave of criticism of his work in the American administration and attacks on the electric car manufacturer's offices.
The car has been parked on the White House grounds ever since. Trump himself did not use it, but ‘lent’ it to administration employees.
According to a White House representative, Trump now wants to sell or possibly give his Tesla to someone. The journalist's interlocutor did not specify at what stage this decision is.
A public dispute between the US president and the American billionaire erupted earlier on Thursday when Trump said he would have won the presidential election without Musk's help.
After that, Musk began posting a series of tweets, including a statement that without his help, ‘Trump would have lost the election, the Democrats would control the House of Representatives, and the Republicans would have 51 seats to 49 in the Senate.’
In subsequent posts, Musk continued to sharply criticise Trump's budget bill, which he said would increase the already large US budget deficit.
In response, Trump wrote that at one point Elon was ‘on the edge’ and added that ‘he's just gone crazy!’