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He spoke with ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl.
By Jonathan Karl

In a phone interview Friday morning, hours after his blistering exchange with Elon Musk, President Donald Trump sounded remarkably unconcerned about their feud, as if it weren't even the most interesting thing that happened Thursday.

Speaking on a phone call Friday morning shortly before 7 a.m., ABC News asked him about reports he had a call scheduled with Musk for later in the day.

"You mean the man who has lost his mind?" he asked, saying he was "not particularly" interested in talking to him right now.

He said Musk wants to talk to him, but he's not ready to talk to Musk.

Trump then talked for a couple of minutes about other things -- referring to inflation (down), foreign investment (up) and his plans for a visit to China (huge).
By Dana Bash, CNN

CNN — President Donald Trump told CNN on Friday he is “not even thinking about” billionaire Elon Musk and won’t be speaking to him in the near future.

“I’m not even thinking about Elon. He’s got a problem. The poor guy’s got a problem,” Trump said in a brief phone call.

The comments come after a day Trump and Musk traded barbs on social media as their relationship deteriorated in spectacular public fashion.

Trump said Thursday he was “very disappointed” with the tech billionaire for criticizing his massive tax and spending cuts package while Musk fired back that “Trump would have lost the election” without him.

In his call with CNN Friday morning, Trump talked about the forthcoming jobs report, which has since been released, inflation and gas prices. Asked if he had a call with Musk, the president responded: “No. I won’t be speaking to him for a while I guess, but I wish him well.”
If they don’t broker a peace deal, their squabble could get messier and more expensive for both of them
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

The falling-out between the world’s richest person and the president of the world’s largest economy will have consequences – for both of them.

Elon Musk, as the boss of multiple companies including Tesla, and Donald Trump, who has benefited from Musk’s support in his journey to the White House, have had a mutually beneficial relationship up until now.

Here are 10 ways in which Musk and Trump could hurt each other if they fail to broker a peace deal.

What Trump could do to Musk
Cancel government contracts related to Musk’s businesses

Responding to Musk’s criticism of his tax and spending bill, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Thursday that cancelling the billionaire’s government contracts would be a straightforward way to save money.

“The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!” Trump said.

What Musk could do to Trump
Turn X against the White House

Musk used his X platform, and his more than 220 million followers on it, to rally support for Trump’s victory in the 2024. It also provided a platform for far-right views that helped publicise the Maga agenda.

Theoretically, Musk could at least use his own X account to criticise Trump with as much regularity as he pumped the president’s policies (the Tesla chief executive is a prolific user of his own platform).

However, this also depends on Musk’s influence with the US electorate. Five out of 10 US adults say they have an unfavourable view of Musk, according to the Pew Research Center. But it should be noted that seven out of 10 Republicans or Republican-leaning adults hold a favourable view – he’s not going to sway many Democrats who dislike Trump anyway.
Lora Kolodny, Chris Eudaily

Shares of Tesla fell 14% on Thursday as President Donald Trump threatened to pull government contracts for CEO Elon Musk’s companies, escalating a war of words over the spending bill.

The move dropped the EV maker $152 billion in value, the biggest hit to its market cap ever, putting it below the $1 trillion benchmark and settling Thursday at $916 billion.

“Elon was ‘wearing thin,’ I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Trump spoke from the Oval Office earlier Thursday and said Musk was upset that EV credits were not included in the bill.

“Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will anymore,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Thursday. “I was surprised.”

“Whatever,” Musk fired back as the president spoke.

“Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate,” he posted on X.
Opinion by Malcolm Ferguson

Elon Musk spent his evening calling Steve Bannon a “retard” after Bannon called for Trump to seize Musk’s companies and deport him following their fallout over the budget bill.

Musk and Trump had a highly publicized spat on Thursday that saw the president expressing his “disappointment” in Musk’s opposition to his “big, beautiful bill” on live TV, chalking the conflict up to Musk losing his government Tesla subsidies. The Silicon Valley right came to Musk’s side, while Bannon and the deep MAGA right rallied around their leader.

“He doesn’t know anything. He’s a know-it-all. He knows some engineering, don’t get me wrong, but he doesn’t know anything about the real world,” Bannon said of Musk on his Thursday show. “Any fanboys that still exist … understand that DOGE, he didn’t find any fraud. There’s plenty of fraud out there. This is President Trump’s first complaint. Was this all BS with the DOGE?”

Bannon continued.

“Space X … President Trump should be taking immediately. When he threatens to take one of the big programs out of Space X, President Trump tonight should sign an executive order calling for the defense production act and seize Space X tonight before midnight,” Bannon said, responding to Musk’s threats to pull his Space X programs from the Trump administration.

Know It

Jews account for approximately 0.2 percent of the global population. And yet antisemites believe that this tiny minority is not only on a quest for total world domination, but is already in control of banks, the media, industry, government — even the weather.

As recently as March 2018, a Washington D.C. city council member claimed that the Rothschild family, a Jewish family known for a bank they founded in Frankfurt, was “controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities.” Jews have also been blamed for economic crises, from the Great Depression to the 2008 recession.
Story by Evan Williams

Washington DC - Donald Trump's former advisor Steve Bannon urged the president to deport Elon Musk and cancel his government contracts after the two former allies started an all-out feud.

"They should initiate a formal investigation of his immigration status, because I am of the strong belief that he is an illegal alien, and he should be deported from the country immediately," Bannon said, according to the New York Times.

Politico also ran an interview with the far-right strategist, who said "MAGA's done" with Musk.
Story by Pablo R. Suanzes

He reiterates that he has no intention of speaking with him, that the "relationship is broken," and suggests that "he is a big -time drug addict," according to The Washington Post.

Donald Trump is very hurt. The President of the United States is used to being hated, to firing and dismissing collaborators, even to having members of his inner circle leave and criticize him harshly. But the unilaterally launched crusade by Elon Musk has surprised him, affected him, and days after the public clash, he still hasn't fully reacted.

This Saturday, in a phone interview, the president stated that he has no desire to repair their relationship. "No," Trump clearly said when asked if he was considering it. When asked if he believed his relationship with the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX had ended, Trump replied: "I suppose so (...) 'm too busy doing other things", he said, and added: "I have no intention of speaking with him," accusing him of disrespecting the institution of the presidency. "I think it's very bad because it's very disrespectful. You can't disrespect the office of the president," he added.

Additionally, he threatened his former partner if he dared to use his enormous fortune to support the campaigns of White House-favored candidates. Musk dedicated 275 million of his fortune to Trump's reelection, and not only has he given much more to other politicians, but above all, he formed an alliance with the president to threaten any rebellious Republican who does not blindly support all the leader's proposals by financing the campaigns of other hand-picked candidates. "If he does, he'll have to pay the consequences for that," Trump told NBC News in a phone interview about the possibility that now, out of resentment or revenge, the businessman may consider confronting him.
Al Jazeera

Liz Oyer, a lawyer with the United States Department of Justice handling pardons for a long time, was fired by the Trump administration in March. Since then, Oyer has publicly criticised the administration, including its approach to pardons.

In an April 30 video on TikTok, Oyer took issue with many of Trump’s pardons, not only because they short-circuited the justice system but also because of their financial impact.

“President Trump has granted pardons that have wiped out over $1bn in debts owed by wealthy Americans who have committed fraud and broken the law,” claims Oyer, who said she was fired because she opposed a pardon to restore gun rights to actor Mel Gibson, a Trump supporter who was convicted on misdemeanour domestic violence charges in 2011.

US Senator Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, shared her post on May 31 on Instagram, saying Trump is “selling pardons to criminals who dump money on him and ingratiate themselves to his ego. They not only get out of jail, but they get out of the money they owe to make restitution for their crimes. This is wrong.”

Oyer’s Substack includes a running list of Trump’s pardons, along with a dollar figure for each that she says the pardon erased. The dollar figures on her list include fines – a financial penalty for being convicted of a crime – and restitution, which is designed to compensate victims for their losses.
National Guard In LA To Curb Immigration Protests
BBC News

A senior Los Angeles city official has told CBS, the BBC's US partner, that the National Guard is deployed at the federal buildings in downtown LA and Westwood.

"There are going to be several protests today in the city of Los Angeles. The city and police are monitoring those," the official says.

The official also says the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has made 29 arrests, almost all for failing to disperse, which is a misdemeanour offence.

They add that city officials "are supportive of immigrant rights" and called the situation a "no win" for the police.

If federal officials ask for help with public safety, LAPD will respond, the official says.

But they add: "They will not respond or engage in any immigration policy enforcement issue."

During a runway press gaggle yesterday, Donald Trump reveals that it is solely up to him on whether or not military force should be used to stop protests. When asked by a reporter what the bar is for sending US Marines to stop the protests in LA, Trump ominously remarks, 'the bar is what I think it is.'
Story by Ian Millhiser

On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down a brief order permitting the Department of Government Efficiency, the enigmatic White House entity that billionaire Elon Musk previously ran, to access a wide range of sensitive information kept by the Social Security Administration — including many individuals’ bank account numbers and medical records. All three of the Court’s Democrats dissented from the Court’s order in Social Security Administration v. AFSCME.

Realistically, it was always likely that the Trump administration would eventually prevail in this case. As Solicitor General D. John Sauer argues in the administration’s brief, the plaintiffs in AFSCME “do not contend that their information has been shared with parties outside the government.” Rather, this case boils down to whether the courts can second-guess the executive branch’s decisions about which government employees may see data that is already held by the government. These sorts of internal management decisions typically are not subject to judicial review.

Yet, while the result in AFSCME isn’t surprising, the case reveals a schism within the Court — and it highlights how the Trump administration has managed to successfully circumvent normal court procedures to quickly get their grievances before a largely sympathetic Supreme Court.
Opinion by Rex Huppke, USA TODAY

President Donald Trump and his band of faux-macho nogoodniks keep poking the city of Los Angeles, hoping it will squeal and create the kind of violent theater that gives right-wing media its life force.

First they sent in the National Guard to address predominantly peaceful anti-ICE protests, but the sprawling city failed to adequately burn. Now they're sending in U.S. Marines to get the job done.

It's an intentional, dangerous and wholly unnecessary provocation. And based on how Trump and other Republicans have reacted to the ongoing protests, we should all be clear on the administration's new rules for protesting in America.

Rule No. 1: No protesting unless it's something Trump wants you to protest
For those who engage in liberal activities like reading and “seeing things with your own eyes and believing they’re real,” it might seem odd that the man who praised Jan. 6 insurrectionists as "great patriots" and then pardoned them all has the gall to call LA protesters “insurrectionists.”

Technically, there’s nothing about the California protests that would make them an insurrection, while everything about the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, an effort to overturn a free-and-fair election, made it an actual insurrection.

But that kind of fact-based thinking is now illegal, and protesters in Los Angeles and elsewhere need to understand that the First Amendment only applies to things Trump and Republicans want to hear.
Story by Janna Brancolini

Bulldozers have begun ripping up the grass and digging the foundation for a new flagpole in the White House Rose Garden lawn, making good on President Donald Trump’s plan to install a Mar-a-Lago-style patio.

Employees with the National Park Service, which maintains the White House grounds, began work Monday on the project. They expect to finish sometime during the first half of August, the Associated Press reported.

Trump walked over to inspect the work and told reporters he was installing two “beautiful” flagpoles “paid for by Trump” because the grounds have “needed flagpoles for 200 years,” according to the AP. The White House already flies the American flag and the POW/MIA flag on the roof every day.
Story by Anna Cooban, CNN

Elon Musk said Wednesday that he regrets some of his recent social media posts about President Donald Trump.

“I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far,” Musk said in a post on X.

Musk’s relationship with Trump deteriorated in a spectacular, public fashion last week as the two men traded jibes on their respective social media platforms.

Until recently, Musk was Trump’s close ally in government and co-head of his administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, where the tech billionaire spearheaded mass layoffs of federal workers.

But their relationship soured when Musk slammed Trump’s massive tax cut and domestic policy bill, labeling it a “disgusting abomination” for its anticipated negative impact on US government finances.

The Tesla CEO stepped up his criticism by sharing years-old comments from Trump and other Republican lawmakers that raised concerns about US government spending and the budget deficit.

Shares of Tesla (TSLA) rose following Musk’s walk-back on X, rising 2% in premarket trading.

Among Musk’s posts on X last week was a claim that Trump would have lost last year’s presidential election without him and – in the most incendiary missive – that Trump is “in” the Jeffrey Epstein files.



Opinion by John Mac Ghlionn, opinion contributor

Steve Bannon wants you to believe he’s a war general for the forgotten man — a blue-collar prophet in cargo pants, ready to torch the global elites on behalf of truckers and farmers. But strip away the flannel and fury, and what you find isn’t a populist — it’s a financier, a Hollywood operator, and a man worth $20 million LARPing as a coal-dusted crusader for the common man.

This is the hustle: Bannon talks like a patriot but lives like a prince. He rails against the globalists while building his own global network. He warns you about the machine even as he becomes a vital gear in it.

Let’s rewind. Before Breitbart, before the “War Room” podcast, before the MAGA movement and talk of “deconstructing the administrative state,” Steve Bannon was something far less revolutionary: a banker. And not just any banker — he was a high-powered executive at Goldman Sachs, the very temple of global finance he now pretends to rage against. He didn’t walk picket lines. He walked into boardrooms, advised mergers and helped move capital around like puzzle pieces in the portfolios of the powerful. He got in on the deals most Americans would never even hear about, let alone benefit from.

One of those deals? “Seinfeld.” After leaving Goldman, he began his own firm and worked with Westinghouse to successfully acquire a minority stake in Castle Rock Entertainment, the producer of “Seinfeld.” As part of that deal, Bannon accepted a stake in the royalties of the show.
Story by Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact

“One out of every $5 or $6 in Medicaid [payments] is improper.”

Russell Vought stated on June 1, 2025, in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Responding to charges that President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill would cut Medicaid coverage for millions of Americans, Trump administration officials misleadingly counter that it targets only waste, fraud, and abuse.

During an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Russell Vought, the administration’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, framed Medicaid as sagging under the weight of improper payments.

An “improper” payment refers to payments made erroneously to beneficiaries and their providers or without sufficient documentation.

Pressed June 1 by CNN host Dana Bash about concerns that low-income Americans would suffer if the bill becomes law, Vought called such arguments “totally ridiculous.”

“This bill will preserve and protect the programs, the social safety net, but it will make it much more commonsense,” Vought said. “Look, one out of every $5 or $6 in Medicaid [payments] is improper.”

That would mean Medicaid’s improper payment rate is 16% to 20%.

In a 2024 report covering the years 2022, 2023, and 2024, Medicaid’s parent agency — the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — said the rate was about 5.1%.
Story by Rhian Lubin

A U.S. Marshal was mistakenly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at a courthouse because they “fitt[ed] the general description” of someone being sought by the agency.

The brief detention took place at Tucson’s immigration court in Arizona and was due to a case of mistaken identity, the U.S. Marshals Service said.

“A Deputy US Marshal who fit the general description of a subject being sought by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) was briefly detained at a federal building in Tucson after entering the lobby of the building,” the U.S. Marshals Service said in a statement, the Arizona Daily Star reports. “The Deputy US Marshal’s identity was quickly confirmed by other law enforcement officers, and he exited the building without incident.”

The Independent has contacted the U.S. Marshals Service and ICE for further comment.

No details were given about when the detainment took place or what prompted the ICE agents to swoop on the law enforcement officer.
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