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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Trump won't rule out deporting Tesla CEO Elon Musk: 'We'll take a look'

President Donald Trump holds a news conference with Elon Musk to mark the end of the Tesla CEO's tenure as a special government employee overseeing the U.S. DOGE Service on Friday May 30, 2025. (Credit: Tom Brenner—The Washington Post via Getty Images)
  • President Trump signaled he might consider kicking Musk, a naturalized American citizen, out of the country after the Tesla CEO said he would do everything in his power to end the political careers of GOP lawmakers backing the administration’s so-called One Big, Beautiful Bill. “They will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth,” Musk warned. Trump fired back on Monday that the entrepreneur could “head back home to South Africa,” before escalating the feud early this morning.

Donald Trump will “take a look” at whether the U.S. government should deport Elon Musk, the president told the media on Tuesday in what appeared to be a serious escalation in their ongoing feud.

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