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## Video: ‘I’m Very Disappointed in Elon’: Trump Says ‘Great Relationship’ With Musk May Be Over

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_Published 2025-06-05. President Donald Trump says he's "very disappointed" with Elon Musk after he slammed the Republican tax bill and told reporters the tech billionaire who recently left his administration has "Trump Derangement Syndrome."_


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## Transcript

I'm very disappointed because Ellen knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here, better than you people. He knew everything about it. He had no problem with it. All of a sudden he had a problem, and he only developed the problem when he found out that we're going to have to cut the EV mandate, because that's billions and billions of dollars. And it really is unfair. We want to have cars of all types electric. We want to have electric, but we want to have gasoline combustion. We want to have different. We want to have hybrids. We want to have all we want to be able to sell everything.

And if you saw the statements he made about me, which I'm sure you can get very easily, it's very fresh on tape. He said the most beautiful things about me, and he hasn't said bad about me personally, but I'm sure that'll be next. But I'm I'm very disappointed in Ellen. I've helped Ellen a lot. A lot of good things are happening in this room. And I'll tell you, it's not he's not the first people leave my administration and they love us. And then at some point they miss it so badly. And some of them embrace it and some of them actually become hostile. I don't know what it is. It's sort of Trump Derangement Syndrome, I guess they call it.

But I we have it with others too. They leave and they wake up in the morning and the glamour is gone. The whole world is different and they become hostile. I don't know what it is. Someday you'll write a book about it and you'll let us know.

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