“Trump is a d*** also,” he told The Independent. “I think that people recognize that Elon Musk is an unelected richest man on the planet who’s cutting their Medicaid, cutting their Social Security, cutting their health care, causing problems at the FAA. And so people are very concerned about it.”

Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, a Washington Post