Trump threatens to go after Elon Musk as he warns the billionaire that he will remove subsidies to his companies, close them down and send him back to South Africa

Donald Trump has threatened to turn the Department of Government Efficiency on his former ‘First Buddy’ Elon Musk.

The president suggested he may use the department Musk once headed to strip away the billionaire’s government subsidies to decimate his business empire, as their feud hit galactic new heights.

Trump issued the threat in response to Musk’s public protest over the ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill,’ in which he pledged to launch his own political party if the bill succeeds.

‘Elon Musk knew, long before he so strongly Endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV Mandate,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social early Tuesday.

‘It is ridiculous, and was always a major part of my campaign. Electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one.’

He then turned the screws on Musk, suggesting his time benefitting from the U.S. government could be over and that the South African native could be forced to return to his homeland.

‘Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa. No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE. Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!’

Long-time Trump ally Steve Bannon also ripped Musk for criticizing the president’s signature legislation.

Musk has not directly responded to Trump, but has continued to rail against what he sees as the bill’s potential to ‘bankrupt America’ after the president’s post.

The world’s richest man has argued that the legislation would greatly increase the national debt and erase the savings he says he has achieved through DOGE.

His criticism of the bill has caused a rift with Trump, marking a dramatic shift after the tech billionaire spent nearly $300 million on the presidents re-election campaign and led DOGE as a federal cost-cutting initiative.

It remains unclear how much sway Musk has over Congress or what effect his opinions might have on the bill’s passage.

After weeks of relative silence following a feud with Trump over the bill, Musk rejoined the debate on Saturday as the Senate took up the package, calling it ‘utterly insane and destructive’ in a post on social media platform X.

On Monday, he ramped up his criticism, saying lawmakers who had campaigned on cutting spending but backed the bill, ‘should hang their heads in shame!’

And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth,’ Musk said.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO called again for a new political party, saying the bill’s massive spending indicated, ‘that we live in a one-party country – the PORKY PIG PARTY!!’

‘Time for a new political party that actually cares about the people,’ he wrote.