Billionaire Elon Musk on Wednesday lashed out at a key aide to President Donald Trump who was rumored to have played a role in contributing to the feud that broke out between the CEO and the president.
Musk responded to a report by the New York Post that said Sergio Gor, who serves as the director of presidential personnel at the White House, has not yet submitted the paperwork required for him to obtain a permanent security clearance.
“He’s a snake,” Musk wrote in a post on X responding to the story.
The public feud between Musk and Trump began after Gor allegedly persuaded the president to rescind the nomination of Jared Isaacman to lead NASA prior to his confirmation by the Senate over his past donations to Democrats. Isaacman is a personal friend of SpaceX CEO Musk.
After Isaacman’s nomination was pulled, Musk ramped up his criticism of the “one big, beautiful bill” that the Trump administration and congressional Republicans are hoping to advance, calling the tax cut and spending package a “disgusting abomination” over its deficit impact, undercutting the work of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
Those criticisms and Musk’s calls for Congress to “kill the bill”