"Elon is upset because we took the EV mandate ... which was a lot of money for electric vehicles," Trump said Thursday in the Oval Office. "They're having a hard time, the electric vehicles. And they want us to pay billions of dollars in subsidy. And, you know, Elon knew this from the beginning."

President Donald Trump on Thursday publicly acknowledged for the first time his deteriorating relationship with Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur who once held a high-level