Vice President JD Vance said Elon Musk made a “mistake” in picking a fight with President Trump — but said he hopes the Tesla honcho will find his way back into the White House.
Vance shared his hopes of having the X owner back at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. by the 2026 midterm elections, and highlighted just how instrumental the billionaire was in Trump’s 2024 presidential bid.
“I don’t know that he would take my call right now,” Vance told The Gateway Pundit of Musk, saying the tech tycoon has a “complicated relationship” with the White House.
“I kid,” he added. “I’m sure he would take my call, but honestly, the drama around him and the White House over the last couple of months… my hope is that it just kinda cools down a bit.”
“If you’re patriotic, you’re not trying to sink your knife in the back of the president, you’re not trying to betray the movement, I don’t care about these, like, minor, little disagreements,” he said, adding that he is “pretty big tent about this stuff.”
Vance also suggested that the SpaceX CEO is in a tough spot as a result of the messy feud.
“My argument to Elon is like, you’re not going to be on the left … even if you wanted to be — and he doesn’t — they’re not going to have you back, that ship has sailed,” he said. “I really think it’s a mistake for him to try to break from the president.”
“My hope is, by the midterms, things are kind of back to normal,” he added.
Musk parted ways with the Trump administration at the end of May, with the president saying that the world’s richest man “will always be with us, helping all the way.”
But while his departure initially seemed cordial, the tech boss later raged publicly about the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act, grumbling over its impact on the deficit in particular — which had been Musk’s top priority when pulling the strings on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Musk branded the package as “pork-filled” and a “disgusting abomination,” before turning against the president in a dramatic social media storm.
Despite Musk’s attempts to derail the megabill, Republicans pushed it through Congress and Trump signed the landmark bill into law on July 4.
As a result, Musk revealed plans to launch a centrist “America Party” alternative to the two-party system — which Trump immediately labeled “ridiculous.”
“I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely ‘off the rails,’ essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks,” Trump lamented on Truth Social at the time.
The duo’s so-called breakup was later branded “very troublesome” by White House chief of staff Susie Wiles during an appearance on “Pod Force One” last month.
Wiles agreed with Post columnist Miranda Devine’s contention that Musk “almost … had a sort of fatherly fixation with Donald Trump that I guess inevitably was going to blow up at some point.”
“The president was very, very kind to him, and Elon had so much to offer us,” Wiles said. “He knew things we didn’t know. He knew people and technologies that we didn’t know.”
“It was a great thing when it was a great thing, and had a very, I think, a very troublesome ending,” she added.
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