{"id":3387,"date":"2025-07-24T20:06:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/why-did-donald-trump-make-u-turn-on-elon-musk-us-president-wants-tesla-ceo-to-thrive-like-never-before\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T20:06:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:06:48","slug":"why-did-donald-trump-make-u-turn-on-elon-musk-us-president-wants-tesla-ceo-to-thrive-like-never-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/why-did-donald-trump-make-u-turn-on-elon-musk-us-president-wants-tesla-ceo-to-thrive-like-never-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Donald Trump make U-turn on Elon Musk? US president wants Tesla CEO to &#8216;THRIVE&#8217; like never before"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>US President Donald Trump on Thursday took a U-turn on his stance on Elon Musk, dismissing claims that he wants to destroy the billionaire&rsquo;s companies and asserted that he wants the former DOGE chief to &lsquo;THRIVE&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>This comes a day after the White House hinted that Trump does not want Musk&rsquo;s xAI to get government contracts.<\/p>\n<h3>Why is Trump making U-turn on Musk?<\/h3>\n<p>Reports suggest that Trump&rsquo;s fresh reversal on his stance comes as a bid to tone down the tensions with the Tesla chief. The US president also pointed out that if Musk&rsquo;s companies do well, it would be good for the country too.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing rumours about Trump planning to revoke government support for Musk&rsquo;s companies, the President posted on Truth Social, &ldquo;Everyone is stating that I will destroy Elon&rsquo;s companies by taking away some, if not all, of the large scale subsidies he receives from the U.S. Government. This is not so!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I want Elon, and all businesses within our Country, to THRIVE, in fact, THRIVE like never before!&rdquo; said Trump, adding that if these companies do well, it will benefit the country as a whole. &ldquo;And that&rsquo;s good for all of us. We are setting records every day, and I want to keep it that way!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Musk&rsquo;s Tesla is struggling with declining electric vehicle sales while its autonomous driving business is yet to hit the road.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Musk had previously slammed Trump&rsquo;s One Big Beautiful Act over rising national debt ceiling, claiming that claimed that &ldquo;everyone seems to be whistling past the graveyard&rdquo; despite the US heading to bankruptcy. He even went on to call it the &ldquo;Debt Slavery Bill&rdquo;, which he claimed would undermine his work at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) by raising spending.<\/p>\n<p>However, the White House then hit back at the Tesla boss, alleging that he is worried about the clause in the Act that would end EV subsidies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Why did Donald Trump make U-turn on Elon Musk? US president wants Tesla CEO to &lsquo;THRIVE&rsquo; like never before<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump on Thursday took a U-turn on his stance on Elon Musk, dismissing claims that he wants to destroy the billionaire&rsquo;s companies and asserted that he wants the former DOGE chief to &lsquo;THRIVE&rsquo;. This comes a day after the White House hinted that Trump does not want Musk&rsquo;s xAI to get government&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/why-did-donald-trump-make-u-turn-on-elon-musk-us-president-wants-tesla-ceo-to-thrive-like-never-before\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Why did Donald Trump make U-turn on Elon Musk? US president wants Tesla CEO to &#8216;THRIVE&#8217; like never before&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}