Trump says he wants musk `prosperous ” for weeks after the threat of Doge’s investigation

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President Donald Trump said he wanted Elon Musk to “prosper” only a few weeks after suggesting that the Government Ministry of Efficiency (DOGE) could investigate him.
In a Post on social truth, The president said: “Everyone says that I will destroy Elon’s companies by removing some, if not all, of large -scale subsidies that he receives from the United States government. This is not the case!
“I want Elon, and all the companies in our country, prosper, in fact, thrive like never before!, Better they do it, the better the United States does, and it’s good for all of us. We are establishing records every day, and I want to keep it like this!” Added Trump.
At the beginning of July, Trump – who was entangled in a public quarrel with the CEO of Spacex and Tesla this summer – told journalists that Doge might have to investigate Musk.
Trump says Doge “ Monster ” may have to “eat Elon”

President Donald Trump on the right, and Elon Musk attend a press conference in the Oval Board of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 30, 2025. (Reuters / Nathan Howard)
“Doge is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t it be terrible?” Said Trump at the time. “He obtains many subsidies. But, Elon was very upset that the EV mandate was interrupted.”
Trump previously told the media in June that his relationship with Musk had changed when the president began to discuss the plans to eliminate the mandate of the electric vehicle, which would affect Musk’s Signature Electric, Tesla.
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President Donald Trump said Elon Musk’s decision to start a third political party is “ridiculous”, while addressing Bedminster journalists in Pennsylvania on July 6, 2025. (Fox News)
Trump signed a trio of conference resolutions on June 12, ending California’s restrictive rules for diesel engines and mandates on sales of electric vehicles, Trump celebrating that his signature “will kill California mandates forever”.

President Donald Trump bought a Tesla from Elon Musk, on the right, at the White House as a demonstration of support earlier this year, when the manufacturer of electric vehicles faced the reaction of consumers on Musk’s political activism. (Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images)
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Musk also targeted the Trump administration’s administration’s administration bill from the Trump administration in early June, appealing to a “massive, scandalous and full of pork, the Congress Expenditure Bill (That) is a disgusting abomination”.
Emma Colton and Anders Hagstrom of Fox News contributed to this report.