The president and his aides have sometimes expressed frustration with Elon Musk, but his advisers say the two remain close.

In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning released May 27, Musk criticized Trump's massive tax and spending bill, saying he was "disappointed" to see it, which he said "increases the budget deficit" and "undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing."

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WASHINGTON—President Trump said farewell to Elon Musk on Friday, closing out one of the most turbulent periods in modern government, with an Oval Office news conference in which both men said their relationship would continue.

But in terms of the access he had been given, the amount of time he was spending at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate planning for his return to the Oval Office, and Inauguration Day itself, when Musk and other tech leaders,

"It is very hard to separate Elon Musk's brand from the brand of Tesla, and SpaceX," a Harvard Business fellow told Newsweek.

In social networks, Musk has agreed that he and the president of the United States continue to have a friendly relationship despite his departure as a "special employee", a position that only lasts 130 days.

President Trump will hold a press conference on Friday at the White House alongside Elon Musk, who is departing his role as a special government employee. “This will be his last day, but not